A Senate Committee has insisted that Biosecurity Australia (BA) must spell out whether the arrangements are prescribed or just suggested for the Import Risk Analysis (IRA) for Philippine Cavendish bananas, according to The Nationals Senator Ron Boswell.
June 26th, 2009
“The Rudd government should be condemned for its complete lack of interest in the plight of small business under the CPRS,” said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell following his question without notice to the Minister representing the Minister for Small Business, Senator Carr.
June 24th, 2009
YESTERDAY MARKED THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF DEREGULATION OF THE WHEAT INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA. USUALLY WHEN AN ANNIVERSARY OCCURS FOR AN EVENT IT IS A TIME FOR CELEBRATION, BUT FOR THE WHEAT INDUSTRY THERE IS LITTLE TO CELEBRATE.
THE AUSTRALIAN WHEAT INDUSTRY HAS FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO ADAPT TO THE DELETERIOUS CHANGES THAT DEREGULATION HAS BROUGHT WITH IT.
June 24th, 2009
“The Rudd government’s Emissions Trading Scheme is a lobotomy on Australia’s economy, coming at an enormous price of jobs, exports and regional communities”, said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell during debate on the CPRS in the Senate last night.
June 23rd, 2009
Industries’ distrust created by the government’s establishment of a Coral Sea Conservation Zone is justified, foreign based environmental lobby group Pew is calling the shots according to The National’s Senator Ron Boswell.
June 19th, 2009
People convicted of fishing in a green zone have not had their convictions ‘spent’ and have been left hanging on the hook according to The Nationals Senator Ron Boswell.
June 19th, 2009
The Coalition this morning supported moves to refer the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009 to the Senate Economics Committee for report by 12 August.
June 18th, 2009
The Coalition led Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy has put the Rudd Government on notice about its reprehensible failures to satisfactorily accommodate agriculture in the climate laws it is attempting to ram through Parliament.
June 17th, 2009
“Labor’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) comes at the very high cost of thousands of jobs in the coal dependent Bowen Basin and union leaders are just watching it happen,” said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell during a tour of coal communities in central Queensland this week.
June 11th, 2009
“Coal dependent communities like Blackwater are being sacrificed so that Labor can win votes in leafy green suburbs of capital cities,” said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell today in Blackwater.
June 11th, 2009