Agriculture looks to record-busting year
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
The agricultural sector is looking at another record-breaking year, with the gross value of production (GVP) foreca...
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WILL GOVERNMENT DELIVER ON GLOBAL PLASTIC POLLUTION PLEDGE?
JOSH WILSON MP
The announcement by Minister Ley that Australia will support the establishment of a global agreement on Marine Plas...
NEW HOSPITAL MODELLING NEEDED BEFORE OPENING UP
AMA President, Dr Omar Khorshid
The AMA says hospitals are ill prepared for plans to open up and has called for new modelling based on hospital and...
SCOTT MORRISON’S ONE BILLION TREES PROMISE FELLED WITH NO FUNDING DELIVERED
Julie Collins MP
The Morrison-Joyce Government’s promise to plant one billion trees has been exposed as a sham with new evidence rev...
STATEMENT ON ONGOING FIRST NATIONS COVID CRISIS
LINDA BURNEY MP
On vaccination rates in First Nations communities Once again, the Morrison-Joyce Government is keen to pat itself o...
GROWTH SLOWS, WITH MORE PAIN TO COME
JIM CHALMERS MP
Today’s growth numbers show the economy was slowing even before the current lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne, and...
MORRISON REEF ENVOY’S HOLLOW WORDS ON CLIMATE
TERRI BUTLER MP
The latest report from the Morrison-Joyce Government’s Great Barrier Reef Envoy, Warren Entsch, reads more like a d...
LEGACY WEEK 2021
SHAYNE NEUMANN MP
It is more important than ever to support Legacy Week and Labor encourages Australians to buy a badge, buy a bear,...
TRAGIC DEATH OF TWO SOLDIERS
BRENDAN O’CONNOR MP
Labor expresses our deepest sympathy after the announcement that two soldiers have died in an army vehicle crash ne...
ABA welcomes constructive payments system review
Australian Banking Association
The Australian Banking Association (ABA) has welcomed the findings and recommendations of the Federal Government’s...
‘SLOMO’ STRIKES AGAIN ON FINANCIAL ADVICE FEES
STEPHEN JONES MP
Five months ago, Labor wrote to the Morrison Government warning that its 160 per cent fee hike on financial advisor...
Aquaculture now largest sector of seafood industry
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
Australia’s aquaculture sector continues on a trajectory of steady growth, but the entire industry has experienced...