The Liberal and Nationals Government has delivered a vital agriculture visa to help secure the future of rural and regional Australia. The Agricultural Worker Visa will provide a long-term, reliable workforce for our critical industries while solving one of the great challenges facing regional Australia in recent history. Nationals Senate Leader and Senator for Victoria…
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…
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…
By Aidan Smith 29 Oct 2020 NATIONALS Senate Leader and Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie has called out Screen Australia during a Senate Estimates hearing for allocating $625,000 of taxpayer funds to a documentary entitled Fight for Planet A: Our Climate Challenge. Ms McKenzie said last week that the documentary, which was aired by the…
Screen Australia has been caught out by Nationals Senate Leader and Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie for funding $625,000 of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars to bring down the Australian beef industry. Fight for Planet A: Our Climate Challenge is listed as a documentary on both Screen Australia and the ABC’s websites even though it is factually…
The ABC has been put on notice for broadcasting the factually incorrect program, Fight for Planet A which misrepresents aspects of Australian agriculture, in particular the beef industry, for its contribution to carbon emissions. Nationals Senate Leader and Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie immediately highlighted the fact that the beef industry is one of only two…