Nationals Senators will tour the Hunter Region over the next three days, as part of their bid to stand up for local communities and local jobs. Leader of the Nationals in the Senate Bridget McKenzie said the Hunter Region will play a vital role in contributing to our national economic recovery, so it’s important the…
Nationals Senators are calling on the big banks to stop putting their politically charged climate policies ahead of the jobs of hardworking Australians. Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, along with NSW Nationals Senator Perin Davey, used today’s Senate Estimates to urge the industry’s watchdog to call out…
(Watch the senate estimates exchange between Senator McKenzie and AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) By Chris McLennan Australia’s wool industry was given a slap on the wrist in Federal Parliament yesterday for inadvertently planning to breach trade sanctions against North Korea. Australian Wool Innovation chief executive officer Stuart McCullough came under tough questioning in a…
At Senate Estimates today, the Nationals Senate Team held our national media institutions to account. For too long our media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), has been asleep on the couch letting the ABC report bias programming for its city viewers. Standing up for regional Australia, the Leader of the Nationals in…
At today’s Senate Estimates, the Nationals Senate Team secured a commitment from government that they will keep the Regional Forestry Agreements (RFAs) and reject the recommendations from Professor Samuel’s review into the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. “As the Assistant Minister for Forestry, my view is that we stick with RFAs, they are something…
The Australian Senate today acknowledged the importance of the NSW coal industry in passing a motion by the Nationals highlighting its reliability and importance in our national energy market and to the people who call the Hunter Valley home. Nationals Senate Leader, Senator McKenzie stated: “The National Party Senators know it will be industry, manufacturing…
Today the Nationals Senate Team showed their support of the importance of nuclear power to secure lower energy costs, provide reliable power for Australian industries, including manufacturing and capitalise on a low emissions future. Nationals Senate Leader, Senator McKenzie stated: “The National Party Senators back regional Australia and know how important low cost, reliable power…
Our thoughts are with the workers and their families who will be impacted by Energy Australia’s decision to close the Yallourn Power Station four years early. The Yallourn Power Station has long been a pillar of strength for Victoria and the National Energy Market. It has provided the reliable generation needed to keep energy prices…
The Morrison-McCormack Government is delivering on its commitment to focus on off-farm projects to recover environmental water in the Murray-Darling Basin. Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Keith Pitt, is announcing the Water Efficiency Program (WEP) will close and be replaced by a water saving program that does not impact farmers’ water entitlements. “My…
By Greg Brown Nationals senators have drafted legislation allowing the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in nuclear power as twothirds of Coalition MPs backed lifting the ban on the controversial fuel source to help shift the nation to a carbon-neutral future. The block of five Nationals senators, led by Bridget McKenzie and Matt Canavan,…