Interview with Sunrise’s Nat Barr – Put Politics Aside
Speaking to Sunrise’s Nat Barr on why we need to come together, put politics aside, to achieve change. Sexual harassment, assault and violence are never okay. Tune in here.
DetailsSpeaking to Sunrise’s Nat Barr on why we need to come together, put politics aside, to achieve change. Sexual harassment, assault and violence are never okay. Tune in here.
DetailsWomen and our leaders must stand together and put politics aside to achieve change. Sexual harassment, assault and violence are never okay. Watch my interview with Sky News Australia’s Peta Credlin here.
DetailsSpeaking to Country Today’s Libby Price about the mixed bag of challenges our growers in Victoria are facing with a shortage of labour, export supply chains impacted from COVID, surplus product flooding the domestic market driving down prices and therefore farmers questioning the viability of harvesting the crop. Tune in here.
DetailsA great win for irrigators in basin communities with this week’s announcement that there’ll be a shift to off-farm water recovery projects. And fantastic to discuss it in detail, and what it means for farming communities, with Country Today’s Libby Price. The Victorian Nationals have been pushing for no more water to be taken from…
DetailsGreat to have a catch up with Kylie and Kev at Radio 2AY and discuss some of the wins we’ve had for our Victorian basin communities and farmers with the Water Minister Keith Pitt in the region. Tune in here: https://bit.ly/2MIEvWQ
DetailsBy 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,…
DetailsThe Australian Senate today supported The Nationals call for the Victorian Labor Government to immediately reverse its decision to severely restrict the 2021 duck season. The Senate agreed that restrictions imposed by the Andrews Government were politically motivated to unfairly target law-abiding duck hunters and the rural communities their sustainable game hunting supported. The Victorian…
DetailsOn RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly Deep coalition split over climate policy – RN Breakfast – ABC Radio National The Prime Minister’s goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 has been complicated by growing divisions between the coalition parties. Junior partner, the Nationals, say they wont support a target to decarbonise the economy unless…
DetailsBy Paul Kelly The tasks facing Scott Morrison in 2021 are the immunisation of 25 million Australians and navigating a policy transition to net-zero carbon emissions at 2050 — with the message from parliament’s opening week being that his chief dangers come from populist conservatives and regional Australia. Morrison’s ambitious effort to move his government…
DetailsSenior Nationals party figures have warned Scott Morrison they want agriculture, mining and manufacturing protected in any Australian policy transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and they will cross the floor to protect regional Australia and their party’s identity. The warning is sounded strongest by former leader Barnaby Joyce and former deputy leader…
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