Great to be joining Sky News’ Laura Jayes on AM Agenda today to discuss yesterday’s commitment I secured from the Australia Post board at a senate hearing that it does not support any privatisation plans. Any such move will have adverse impacts on services in our regions. Tune in to hear more on this important…
Great to catch up with Paul Murray on his program last night especially to talk about the Nationals fight, through my private senators bill, to give much needed certainty to the forestry industry. The bill will clarify legal uncertainty created by a Federal Court ruling last year that threatens Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) around Australia…
BY Tamsin Rose Anti-logging protesters in East Gippsland have been slammed for placing a toddler in danger and using the child as a “political pawn”. Photos obtained by the Herald Sun show a small child wandering alone near heavy forestry machinery on April 9. CFMEU national secretary Michael O’Connor said it was not the first…
Caught up with Sky News Australia’s Laura Jayes to discuss the upcoming senate inquiry hearing into the Australia Post and the standing down of CEO Christine Holgate. 2500 licensees, small business owners, the majority of which are in country towns around Australia had a very unfinancially viable future until Christine Holgate came along and negotiate…
Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate will be the star witness at a Senate Inquiry into the purchase of luxury Cartier watches for executives who landed a lucrative deal for regional post offices. Senator McKenzie speaks to Radio National’s Fran Kelly about the inquiry including the watches gifted to senior executives that “pale into insignificance”…
Joining Sky News’ Laura Jayes on AM Agenda to discuss the plight of our agricultural industries from fruit growers to abattoirs from the shortage of labour. While the NSW government today threw a lifeline in offering to foot half the quarantine cost for overseas farm workers, the Victorian Labor government’s dragged the chain to the…
Joining Matt Wordsworth on ABC News Afternoon Briefing, welcoming the National Women’s Safety Summit to be held in late July to tackle domestic violence and providing economic empowerment and safety of women and children. Also discussing how, despite the Cartier controversy, former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate championed rural and regional licensed post offices, delivering…
Great to promote the fabulous Hunter region and its diverse range of industries from coal mining, agribusiness, thoroughbreds and wine to name a few – and what the Nationals are doing to build on jobs and opportunities – on ABC News Breakfast this morning. It’s regions like the Hunter that will play a key role…
Great to catch up with Sky News’ Kieran Gilbert to talk about the government’s latest ministerial reshuffle and boost in female representation around the cabinet table; why the Nationals advocate against quotas having tripled female representation without them; and the Nats work with industry in the Hunter region focusing on manufacturing, jobs and opportunities. Watch…
Caption: Susan McDonald, Michelle Landry, Kay Hull, Bridget McKenzie, Anne Webster and Perrin Davey. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage New Nationals federal president Kay Hull is setting out to recruit the women who are the “backbone” of Australia’s rural and regional towns for parliament, as the junior Coalition partner’s growing number of female MPs…