In 2009 The Nationals led the charge against the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme. At the time only 7 per cent of people supported us. With your hel...

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While Australians are worried about pending interest rate rises, increased power prices and taxes on everything, the Greens-led Labor Party is go...

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 OK, we all make mistakes. But how come when I make one, the media treat it like it’s an end –of- the- world event? I’ve been called all sorts of...

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The Productivity Commission report “Market Mechanisms for Recovering Water in the Murray Darling Basin”  was released Wednesday (March 31st)...

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  The Coalition's Plan to improve the environment and combat climate change won't cause you, yes, each of you, extra pain in the hip pocket. The...

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Peter Spencer has shown great courage for 52 days while he pushed and willed himself through a hunger strike to highlight the great injustice done to ...

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Peter Spencer has said in a radio interview on day 44 of his hunger strike that he is not feeling too bad but his determination to continue not to eat...

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In February I wrote on this blog: "Welcome to my new website and as I come out of my technological cave to stare down the 21st century I hope that th...

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Life changed for the media this week with the announcement by Tony Abbott of the new Opposition front bench. As I have discovered, what I said as the ...

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My appointment as Shadow Finance Minister by Tony Abbott gives The Nationals the type of influence they have not had since the time of Artie Fadden in...

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If a week is a long time in politics the events of Tuesday and Wednesday outdid even that adage. A new Opposition leader and the defeat of the Carbon ...

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The National Party is on the ascendancy in its campaign to stop the ETS. Public opinion has overwhelmingly turned against this massive new tax. We hav...

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I asked some questions of Climate Change Minister Penny Wong in Question Time in the Senate today. After you read my questions and her answers you...

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I was asked on SKY News if the Labor Government's concession to exclude agriculture was a good move. As I explained, the ETS was a ridiculous massive...

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June 25 2009 The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee has announced the terms of reference for the Inquiry into Rural ...

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Apologies to Steve Truman from Agmates TV and to all interested in our discussion but we have had to reschedule this interview to a dat...

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Thursday April 30, 9.30pm, ABC1 Panelists are Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Pru Goward, Wesley Enoch and Sarah Hanson-Young. Follow this link to...

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 9am TUESDAY APRIL 28 The Treasurer has issued this media release:   Foreign Investment Decision Today I approve a revise...

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You have to admire a man who will get in front of a camera and espouse his views, whatever your politics. Steve Truman who runs the Agmates website ha...

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The Australian Electoral Officer (State Manager) for Queensland, Ms Anne Bright, has reminded all interested individuals and organisations that writte...

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The glitch in the comments form has been resolved so please keep posting your intelligent and interesting insights. Contributors have to be congratula...

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You may have noticed me in the Weekend Australian magazine on April 11. It's an interesting process to share your thoughts with a journalist and to be...

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It has taken a little over a week to get more than 1000 names on the petition. The message has to be sent to the Rudd Labor Government that Australian...

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Please sign the PETITION and thank you to the hundreds of people who have already added their names and emailed comments supporting my stand agai...

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Congratulations to Anna Bligh, who is the first female state premier in Australia elected in her own right. Congratulations also to all the new member...

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Queenslanders are going to the polls today, six months ahead of schedule. It is the first opportunity for Queenslanders to vote for the LNP. I hope yo...

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The Keep Australia Australian television advertisements hit the screens this week but you won't be seeing them any more in Queensland until after Satu...

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St Patricks Day has grown to something that celebrates not only the connection to the Irish but all Australians searching for a poor excuse for a beer...

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Biosecurity Australia has made the incredible decision to open Australia up to imports of bananas from the Philippines. Australia grows 22 million ca...

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My first advice to US President Obama on his meeting with our Prime Minister Mr Rudd in Washington DC on March 24 is don’t say anything that you ...

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While the massive clean-up of fire ravaged Victoria continues apace and we mourn the huge loss of life and property, large areas of northern Queenslan...

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Welcome to my new website and as I come out of my technological cave to stare down the 21st century I hope that this arena does not become another non...

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The Nationals in the Senate voted in support of the disallowance of the carbon sink tax regulations so as to render the legislation unworkable. The Na...

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