The sight of the Queensland Premier laughing when asked by a journalist about youth crime should outrage everyone.
But it’s no use campaigning for Labor to crack down on criminals – their own party rules prevent them from doing so.

Calls for the Departmental review into the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) to be expanded into a comprehensive investigation and for the next multi-million dollar payment to be cut have been turbocharged by Coalition Senators after more revelations over the mishandling of the $8.3 million grant were exposed at Senate Estimates.

Only a Coalition Government will hold the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) accountable by ceasing the $8.3 million in Government handouts introduced by Labor.

Labor’s announcement of ‘business as usual’ levels of natural gas supply has been labelled a bad joke by the Coalition, exposing what it says is a government starved of real solutions to Australia’s cost of living crisis.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has heaped praise on flood recovery crews and volunteers in Far North Queensland after witnessing widespread devastation and heartache from Cairns to Mareeba and Cooktown.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has called for all banks to grant deferment on loan repayments for North Queensland businesses and homeowners affected by floods while they can recover financially.

Shadow Resources Minister, Senator Susan McDonald, has slammed a weak Prime Minister unable to control his Ministers from making bad decisions that have undermined our resources sector and put investments in new major projects under threat.

Shadow Resources Minister, Senator Susan McDonald, has warned the Government that despite their update to the Critical Minerals and Strategic Materials Lists, Australia risks losing investment in critical minerals due to Labor’s lethargy.

Shadow Resources Minister, Senator Susan McDonald, has slammed Prime Minister Albanese for being too weak to rein in his Energy Minister from campaigning for an end to fossil fuels on the world stage, at a time when Australia’s coal production and exports are forecast to rise across coming years according to the December 2023 Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ).

Broken approvals processes for resources projects, activists in the courts and shareholder meetings, and an increasingly ideological government that has the wrong priorities threatens the prosperity of every Australian.