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posted on July 28, 2010 14:14
Whilst the rolling Greek tragedy that is the Labor Party continues, the price of utilities continues to take away the spare cash of many Australian fa...
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posted on July 24, 2010 11:22
Senator Joyce said today that the Auditor General report on Infrastructure Australia's first audit report reveals Labor's politicised, haphaza...
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posted on July 18, 2010 17:19
Building up our regional areas is a great idea but it is a shame Labor doesn't take it seriously.
Today they announced a Building Better Regional Ci...
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posted on July 15, 2010 15:37
In trying to think of a metaphor to describe the Labor government in one word, it is this - dodgy! Their figures are dodgy when they talk about a $7.5...
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posted on July 02, 2010 17:23
The release today of Infrastructure Australia’s list of priorities for investment, while we were hearing about the renegotiation of the massive mining...
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posted on June 30, 2010 09:10
Senator Barnaby Joyce today said that the new Labor Government has a lot of work to do to get this country back on track.
"The new appointee...
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posted on June 03, 2010 17:17
The mining companies have warned that jobs would be lost under the resources tax and today we see the reality of what they warned about.
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posted on May 26, 2010 16:54
Questioning in Senate Estimates today showed that the Labor Party has been cooking the books to make their spending plans look better.
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posted on May 19, 2010 14:53
Senator Barnaby Joyce, whilst on his “Straight Talking Tour” in Deniliquin said, “It was interesting to read the answer given yesterda...
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posted on May 12, 2010 08:50
Senator Barnaby Joyce asked today, “What has regional Australia been given in this budget?”
“Australia is heading toward a peak debt po...
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posted on May 07, 2010 09:45
“The release of the long-awaited NBN study today reveals that Prime Minister Rudd has deserted one more of his once closely-held principles,” Senator ...
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posted on May 06, 2010 15:36
“The exponential increase in utility prices such as electricity, gas, and water means that real pressures are being placed on working families which i...
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posted on April 28, 2010 16:06
Senator Barnaby Joyce noted today that the release of the latest consumer price index figures show that electricity prices have increased by 26%, in r...
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posted on April 23, 2010 13:27
“If the Rudd Government gets the Emission Trading Scheme in place, cities like Gladstone will pay the price”, says Senator Barnaby Joyce. “I chal...
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posted on April 06, 2010 16:56
Senator Barnaby Joyce said he was encouraged by the support from the National Farmers Federation (NFF) in their media release of 30th March where they...
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posted on March 23, 2010 17:07
The Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner, today expressed concern that Australia has too many of its export eggs “in one basket.”
Senator Barnaby Joyce t...
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posted on March 23, 2010 14:09
The BER (Building Education Revolution) is quickly turning into the Blatant Enormous Rip-off. They are talking to us in the shopping malls, they ...
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posted on March 21, 2010 13:40
The Labor Party has added another $2.1 billion to our debt in the last fortnight which cracks the $130 billion mark. This is slightly less than the Cl...
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posted on February 24, 2010 10:30
A picture paints a thousand words so a good understanding of our gross debt is seen in the graph below.
It shows clearly that the Coali...
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posted on February 23, 2010 15:43
Mr Tanner today in the chamber appears concerned that I have “been abducted by aliens”. I must say this is starting to follow a certai...
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posted on February 23, 2010 14:40
It’s absurd but they’ve brought it back. You would think that the Labor Party had enough on their plate this week with the absolute farce, the Leyland...
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posted on February 10, 2010 17:27
Labor Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has shown that when it comes to decisions about expenditure of the nations funds, expenditure in t...
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posted on February 10, 2010 11:16
Mr Rudd appears to be excessively sensitive about the Labor Party debt. One of the reasons for his sensitivity could be the unrelenting rise i...
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posted on February 07, 2010 14:20
It was very interesting to hear Finance Minister Tanner speak of the professionalism and competence of his Labor Finance team so I thought I would del...
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posted on February 04, 2010 16:09
Senator Conroy confirmed today that $21 billion still remains unspent from the stimulus package funding. One can only presume that wit...
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posted on February 04, 2010 13:27
4 February 2010
Labor’s Debt out of Control
The capacity for Australia to cover its own expenses and to be benevolent to others is determine...
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posted on February 03, 2010 15:52
posted on January 20, 2010 10:47
Mr Rudd has become our own financial historical revisionist. Apparently Mr Rudd’s problems are caused by the fact that the Coalition Government left h...
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posted on January 18, 2010 13:30
Mr Rudd is releasing his children’s book today and I thoroughly commend the donation this book will make to charity but believe there needs to be more...
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posted on December 18, 2009 18:10
Peter Spencer is on the 26th day of his hunger strike and when I climbed the Tower of Hope at Saarahnlee in southern NSW where he has been perched I s...
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posted on December 17, 2009 16:23
The incumbrance on private property brought about by Labor’s Native Vegetation Laws has led to the pain that is so evident in the life of Pete...
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posted on December 08, 2009 15:49
I must admit that after the appointment to Shadow Finance Minister my comic relief came from Treasurer Swan’s media release stating that I must follow...
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posted on December 07, 2009 18:48
The ABC's new website The Drum: Unleashed has invited me to contribute. This is my first piece. You can comment here or add to the conversation there....
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posted on December 06, 2009 11:05
Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate spoke to Barrie Cassidy on Insiders on ABC1 about the by-elections in Bradfield and H...
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posted on December 03, 2009 16:18
Finally, the CPRS bill has been defeated in the Senate, with the coalition voting against the introduction of a massive new tax on the Australian peop...
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posted on December 02, 2009 23:40
Barnaby Joyce discusses Coalition's climate stance
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 02/12/2009
Reporter: Tony Jones
Barnaby Jo...
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posted on December 01, 2009 15:45
Senator JOYCE (Queensland—Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (10.33 am)—Let us just deal with the minister’s misrepresentations on behalf of her p...
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posted on December 01, 2009 15:36
Senator JOYCE (Queensland—Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (10.04 am)—Once more we go to the premise of the effect on the Australian working fam...
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posted on November 30, 2009 14:13
November 30, 2009 14:06
Senator JOYCE (Queensland—Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (10.27 am)—It seems interesting that the Labor Party’s app...
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posted on November 27, 2009 09:04
The high drama surrounding the ETS legislation and Malcolm Turnbull's very shaky leadership will play out in Parliament House over the course of the d...
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posted on November 23, 2009 16:02
The culture, that all have assumed is the case, in the curtailing of the current global warming debate, has now come to light and shows the trial and ...
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posted on November 13, 2009 13:40
The Labor member for the Electorate of Wills in Victoria, Kelvin Thomson, yesterday reinforced his arguments for reducing immigration into Aus...
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posted on November 11, 2009 15:45
Despite my suggestion that he should go to Sri Lanka to deal with the crisis of refugees and economic migrants, resulting in deaths and the cu...
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posted on November 10, 2009 17:27
It’s approaching D-Day for the people of the Mary River and D-Day for Mr Garrett.
Mr Garrett has the capacity to stop the destruction...
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posted on November 09, 2009 16:54
Today I have launched an online Petition designed to put maximum pressure on the Government to stop the Emissions Trading Scheme, (ETS).
I have inclu...
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posted on November 06, 2009 08:18
Leon Byner (5AA): The Copenhagen Treaty – have you read it entirely?
KEVIN RUDD: Well, I can say that A. there is none at this stage, B. ther...
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posted on November 03, 2009 12:17
Last Friday on Sky News Agenda, Senator Joyce was asked what should be done to tackle the increasing number of boat arrivals appearing in Aust...
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posted on November 02, 2009 12:23
Despite the initial queries that many had at the inception of the school chaplaincy programme, I believe that the overwhelming sentiment is th...
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posted on October 27, 2009 17:17
The Labor Party is doing everything in their power to cloud the motivation of their Emissions Trading tax with proclamations of imminent doom ...
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posted on October 23, 2009 07:15
Today’s announcement by Australian Transport & Energy Corridor Limited to commence construction of a 340 kilometre rail corridor between M...
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posted on October 21, 2009 14:00
In Senate Economics Estimates Senator Joyce asked the CSIRO the million dollar question, or should that be the hundred billion dollar que...
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posted on October 16, 2009 14:09
The ACCC’s decision today to stop the Coles fuel promotion was the right thing to do. I am very much prepared to criticise the ACCC on the rec...
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posted on October 13, 2009 14:10
Senator Joyce conducted a survey on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to establish what percentage of people actually understood what an ETS ...
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posted on October 09, 2009 11:45
Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce believes the failure to arrive at a climate change consensus in Bangkok will be repeated at Copenha...
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posted on September 22, 2009 08:58
Senator Wong’s personal yacht Fantasia has apparently run into the rock of pragmatic politics. As was always to be expected the world does not...
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posted on September 03, 2009 11:43
The conjecture surrounding Section 282 of the QLD Criminal Code has come up for debate in the Queensland State Parliament. This i...
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posted on September 01, 2009 20:15
Senator Joyce is currently on the northern New South Wales trip with the National Party team. Whilst on this trip he has been made aware of ot...
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posted on September 01, 2009 20:13
Senator Joyce said today that he welcomed the announcement by BHP that they will enter into license conditions;
1. ...
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posted on August 28, 2009 14:26
Senator Joyce said today, “Where will Australia draw the line on what share of the market place the major retailers should have?”
“Not only a...
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posted on August 26, 2009 12:49
This morning I was watching Dr Karl Kruszelnicki as he described the probability of a massive meteorite hitting the earth in the next 50 ...
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posted on August 20, 2009 15:14
Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) has claimed its first scalp with the announcement today that Cement Australia is mothballing ...
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posted on August 19, 2009 17:33
The separation of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) shows you can do something for the envir...
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posted on August 17, 2009 10:57
Senator Joyce said today he was not at all surprised that the Business Council of Australia has broken into two groups.
One which shu...
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posted on August 13, 2009 18:07
Today the National Party maintained their commitment to never vote for the Alcopops tax and clearly stated their case in the Senate Chamber by...
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posted on August 13, 2009 17:28
The National Party today honoured its commitment to the people of rural and regional Australia by fighting for the rejection of Labor’s ETS an...
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posted on August 12, 2009 18:34
Everyone acknowledges that Ms Wong and Mr Rudd’s ETS is not going to change the climate.
Neither Professor Ross Garnaut nor UN Climate Chief ...
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posted on August 12, 2009 11:30
If you needed any further evidence of the largess that is associated with Mr Rudd’s ETS, the employment termination scheme, or extra tax syste...
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posted on August 08, 2009 19:48
I didn’t think this needed to be said again however after some media speculation today I feel that I need to clearly put on the record, and th...
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posted on August 06, 2009 13:27
There are very serous concerns regarding exactly what is going on inside the Queensland Labor Party and who is connected to whom and what stri...
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posted on August 04, 2009 18:12
Senator Joyce today called on Treasurer Wayne Swan to re think his undermining of the present system of reviewing foreign investments and take...
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posted on August 03, 2009 15:13
Senator Joyce said today “It has now become apparent NSW Labor Treasurer Eric Roozendaal has a problem with Mr Rudd’s ETS because it will be a...
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posted on July 30, 2009 12:40
The ALP conference seems more like a venue for Eric Zoolander than a forum of any serious debate. Democratic vibrancy has been curtailed,...
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posted on July 28, 2009 17:39
One of the most evident changes of sentiment in the community at the moment is the move against the Rudd Government’s proposed ETS.
It appear...
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posted on July 26, 2009 13:10
It has become apparent that there is a general lack of understanding in the community about exactly what an ETS is. People may understand the ...
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posted on July 23, 2009 16:06
I am extremely disappointed at today’s comments by ACCC Petrol Commissioner Joe Dimasi who says he does not see anything wrong with the 40 cen...
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posted on July 17, 2009 13:09
Mr Rudd has to realise that simply talking to the Australian people about Mr Stern Hu’s arrest in China won’t do much to resolve the issue. It...
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posted on July 15, 2009 10:43
The release by the Productivity Commission of their recommendation to remove protections for the Australian domestic publishing market and aut...
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posted on July 13, 2009 16:14
“It’s been 9 days since the arrest of Mr Stern Hu in Shanghai and according to a report over the weekend on Channel Nine; the highest ranking ...
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posted on July 13, 2009 16:11
Today’s announcement by Coles and Woolworths offering so called discounts on petrol purchases should be treated with scepticism given that the...
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posted on July 10, 2009 16:09
“Mr Rudd should leave the G8, for which he is not actually a member, and get back to work rather than be outraged that people in the Australia...
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posted on July 09, 2009 16:04
“It is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of Edward “Ted” Kenna, Australia’s last living World War Two recipient of the Victori...
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posted on July 08, 2009 15:42
“The Foreign Investment Review Board inquiry has been collecting evidence from people such as Professor Peter Drysdale from the ANU stating th...
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posted on July 08, 2009 15:38
“It was fascinating to read Lenore Taylor’s article in The Australian today titled “World needs to be saved from spending spree: PM. Sorry Len...
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posted on June 30, 2009 17:45
Today Mr Rudd has to decide whether we can take him at his word or whether he’s full of it!
“Mr Rudd said that the buck stops with him on hea...
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posted on June 29, 2009 08:41
“Choice, a non partisan group, held in high esteem by the Australian people has been sidelined in the middle of the night not because they mig...
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posted on June 29, 2009 08:35
One of the last vestiges of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen is about to be removed on Wednesday.
Queensland was the only State that did not have a fu...
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posted on June 29, 2009 08:32
Mr Rudd is today lauding the vote in the United States known as the American clean energy act (otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey Bill) as t...
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posted on June 26, 2009 19:29
On what is obviously a big issue day in the media Mr Rudd has reneged on a big promise, said Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the...
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posted on June 25, 2009 14:27
LABOR’S DEBT - OUT OF CONTROL
The most important issue facing Australians today is the Economy.
“Australia’s Commonwealth debt has now toppe...
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posted on June 24, 2009 10:34
Senator Barnaby Joyce
Leader of the Nationals in the Senate
24th June 2009
Australia $100,000,000,000 in Hoc and counting
Whilst Australia, and to...
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posted on June 18, 2009 16:43
“The problem with the ETS is most Australians are unaware of the impact it will have on the cost of living or the reality of what happ...
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posted on June 11, 2009 04:37
It is interesting to see that the only form of Australian labour associated with the solar panel industry is been knocked on the head by Mr Rudd with ...
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posted on June 03, 2009 23:04
In the Senate Economics Committee tonight, when most of you were watching the State of Origin, Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in t...
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posted on June 03, 2009 17:49
The Rudd Labor Government’s repayment strategy on its $300-billion+ debt has been reduced to a curve that turns down on page 3-9 on Budget Paper ...
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posted on June 02, 2009 10:52
The reality of Australia’s trade position was spelt out clearly in the Senate Economics Committee in Canberra today. The Department of Resources, Ener...
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posted on May 17, 2009 02:45
On reflecting on Mr Swan’s Sunday economic epistle (the Economic Note) I am very concerned about where his pipeline is leading and I’m certain that ou...
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posted on May 13, 2009 14:53
“This budget is a budget where it’s a case of a person in pulmonary arrest being offered two Panadol and a cup of cold water,” said Senator Joyce, the...
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posted on May 04, 2009 16:04
The inevitable progression to the fact that the Emissions Trading Scheme is unworkable has spilt like divine dew from the lips of the prophet himself....
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posted on April 24, 2009 15:01
The OZ Minerals sale to the People’s Republic of China is a great disappointment and shows that the Treasurer, Mr Swan, does not have the capacity to ...
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posted on April 23, 2009 07:39
Australia under Labor is like a customer paying for the groceries on a credit card. In the end the checkout operator tells us that the card is decline...
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posted on April 07, 2009 10:43
The National Broadband Network is truly the Nationals’ Broadband Network as it has been lifted straight from the 2005 Page Research Centre’s position ...
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posted on March 31, 2009 14:09
Senator Joyce was interviewed by Cindy Zhou of the 21st Century Business Herald and the article was published on March 27 2009.
posted on March 30, 2009 15:16
The exclusion of Prominent Hill from the deal with Minmetals, a fully-owned arm of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, does not exclude ...
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posted on March 27, 2009 14:52
The ACCC’s approval of the Chinalco deal proves that the current merger law in section 50 of the Trade Practices Act is not working and needs to be fi...
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posted on March 27, 2009 14:50
It is not at all a surprise that the substantial lessening of competition test has been deemed not to be breached in regard to the Chinalco deal, said...
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posted on March 25, 2009 15:34
High-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials get to lunch at The Lodge with the Prime Minister Mr Rudd but Australians who want to lodge their prote...
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posted on March 24, 2009 11:51
It is peculiar in the extreme that Mr Li Changchun, one of the highest ranking Chinese Party officials, could have lunch at The Lodge and for the Prim...
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posted on March 10, 2009 12:40
The problem with numbers is this. If you say that a headcount of 15 workers means you are exempt from unfair dismissal laws and 16 means that you are ...
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posted on March 04, 2009 13:12
The exam results are in and show negative growth of 0.5 per cent. Not surprisingly it has become apparent that Rudd Labor’s fiscal stimulus package wa...
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posted on March 03, 2009 16:49
The one thing we can be certain about from the Reserve Bank’s decision today to leave cash rates at 3.25 per cent is that the Labor Party’s economic s...
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posted on March 02, 2009 15:57
The visit to Australia by the Chinalco president Xiong Weiping to meet with the Foreign Investment Review Board highlights how vitally important it is...
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posted on March 02, 2009 11:00
Rudd's Labor’s theory that China was “decoupled” from the globe’s economic woes has been completely discredited with the evident increase in steel sto...
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posted on March 01, 2009 16:10
The debate about executive salaries means the rules of the game in the current financial climate have changed, said Senator Barnaby Joyce. In the US, ...
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posted on February 13, 2009 14:51
Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, said that there are serious concerns in regards to Chinalco’s desired increase in ow...
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posted on February 12, 2009 14:49
The National Party Senators today said that what was a nefarious eclectic of issues cobbled together as a so-called “stimulus package” and then with d...
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posted on February 07, 2009 14:49
While driving today I have been thinking about Senator Conroy’s answer to my question to him in the Senate on Thursday about the interest bill on Labo...
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posted on February 02, 2009 00:00
The Prime Minister Mr Rudd’s revelation that one of the worst things in a financial crisis would be a new tax is now an own-goal endorsing the deficie...
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posted on January 30, 2009 00:00
The Prime Minister Mr Rudd and the Labor Government may be trying to manage the financial crisis, but unfortunately they are managing to make it worse...
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posted on December 08, 2008 00:00
The Labor Government's naive attempt to stimulate world economic malaise from an Australian retail spend-a-thon is soon to be judged as an outstanding...
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posted on December 01, 2008 00:00
The Nationals will vote today in support of the disallowance of the carbon sink tax regulations so as to render the legislation unworkable. There has ...
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posted on November 27, 2008 00:00
It is game, set and match and the Rudd Labor Government doesn’t have a clue what they are doing. In their first 12 months in office we have gone from ...
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posted on October 31, 2008 00:00
With Queensland’s largest export being coal, the Government’s planned emissions trading scheme is a direct hit to the State’s bottom line. The ramific...
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posted on October 30, 2008 00:00
The Government’s report on the Economics of Climate Change has totally disregarded the largest economic crisis we have seen in recent history, Senator...
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posted on October 27, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce today said, “I am disturbed by revelations over the weekend that our Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, has started using the President of t...
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posted on October 22, 2008 00:00
It has become apparent today in Estimates questioning by Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce, that half the Nation's surplus was appropriated withou...
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posted on October 21, 2008 00:00
The $10.4 billion stimulus plan is either going to kick-start the economy as supporters extol or the current economic malaise will continue with half ...
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posted on October 14, 2008 00:00
While it is appropriate that the Australian government guarantees the banks, it must be remembered that it is using the money of hard working Australi...
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posted on October 14, 2008 00:00
Though agreeing with the requirement of a stimulus package, Senator Joyce was perplexed as to the nature of it as it now stands.
"I commend the Gov...
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posted on October 13, 2008 00:00
The economic issues of today are unfortunately only part one of the problem. Currently everyone gets the chance to watch the crisis on TV after work, ...
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posted on October 07, 2008 00:00
Whilst overseas in Sarajevo with the Australian delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, it has become apparent to me that the financial meltdown is ende...
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posted on October 03, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce welcomes Mr Rudd’s agreement today with his statement on the 23rd of September, in which Senator Joyce said, “We have a $21 billion surp...
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posted on October 01, 2008 00:00
Senator Barnaby Joyce said that the rejection by congress of the U.S. financial bailout to the tune of US$700b will have serious ramifications for Aus...
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posted on September 25, 2008 00:00
How embarrassing it is for Australia to see Senator McCain breaking from his presidential campaign so as to get back to work dealing with the resultin...
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posted on September 24, 2008 00:00
"The Labor government continues to burden Australian families by refusing to accept concessions on the Luxury Car Tax", Senator Joyce said today.
"...
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posted on September 11, 2008 00:00
“The water debate has now advanced to the purchase of water licences of property to be “returned” to national parks. Well stand by Adelaide for the re...
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posted on September 03, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce said today that the maintaining of the integrity of trusts is a big win for all those hundreds of thousands of participants in trust str...
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posted on September 03, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce said today, "The luxury car tax is no more than a tax on working families employed in the manufacturing industry for motor vehicles of a...
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posted on September 01, 2008 00:00
Labor's new changes to creeping acquisitions are yet another classic example of how they describe to Australians all the wonderful things that await t...
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posted on August 06, 2008 00:00
“You cannot reduce the price of groceries, as Labor promised, by purely telling people what the price of some groceries were on a certain day. It may ...
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posted on July 31, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce said today at the Economics Committee Hearing into the Luxury Car Tax, “Evidence has been delivered to the Committee which suggests that...
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posted on July 31, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce is currently in Sydney for the Senate’s Economics Committee Inquiry into Fuelwatch and he will be a voting member of the Economics Commi...
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posted on July 21, 2008 00:00
"The current fervour surrounding the apparent support for the emission trading scheme is like asking people if they want to get married. Overwhelmingl...
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posted on July 01, 2008 00:00
"The very serious and frightening prognostication from William White, Bank for International Settlements, should bring into clear focus the issues whi...
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posted on June 10, 2008 00:00
“With fuel rising on Friday by $11 a barrel to a new record of $139 a barrel, the implications for the Australian economy, by reason of not having an ...
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posted on June 04, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce in questioning Treasury today has made it quite apparent the only direction prices of specific items will go, when they are affected by ...
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posted on May 27, 2008 00:00
“It has become apparent the FuelWatch, but don’t touch, scheme has become just that.
“The process works strongly in favour of the major oil compani...
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posted on May 23, 2008 00:00
“The current oil crisis will go from bad to worse until we have the courage to come forward with policies that alleviate the crisis.
"Transport vi...
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posted on May 21, 2008 00:00
SENATOR BARNABY JOYCE
The Nationals Senator for Queensland
Labor backbenchers discover the financial situation of their parents
“Well, it appea...
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posted on May 14, 2008 00:00
“There is one group in society really doing it very hard at the moment. They are doing it hard because the cost of fuel is going through the roof, the...
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posted on May 08, 2008 00:00
“Proposals for a Brisbane to Melbourne rail link are long overdue and should be supported, regardless of who is in Government. As we move towards oil ...
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posted on May 01, 2008 00:00
Senator Joyce said today the removal of ethanol grants is completely counterintuitive to the cause of trying to assist working families by lowering th...
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