The Coalition has a clear plan to get Australia’s gas industry moving again. It means more Australian gas, more investment, affordable and greater energy security. 

Anthony Albanese continues to snub regional councils expressing concerns about new federal disaster funding arrangements, telling ratepayers to pick up the bill for his Government’s cuts.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s claims that his new disaster funding arrangements will cut bureaucracy ring hollow while Cloncurry is still waiting to get on with critical airport works he announced funding for more than seven months ago.

The Albanese Labor Government is wrong to fix its migration mess by choking off the backpackers who pick Australian crops and keep regional tourism and hospitality businesses running.

Australia has lost the opportunity to secure national support for a regional New South Wales site with massive critical mineral potential, leaving the US to seize the day with a $566 million investment.
Shadow Minister for Resources Senator Susan McDonald and Shadow Assistant Minister for Resources and Federal Member for Parkes, Jamie Chaffey MP, today said the Labor Government had been asleep at the wheel, forcing Australian miners to seek international investment.

The Western Australian Government’s announcement that the Browse LNG project in WA would be declared a “State Significant Project” is a welcome acknowledgement of the critical need for more new gas developments in Australia, however a damning indictment of the approvals mess that the Federal Labor Government has created.

I am deeply saddened by the tragic incident at BMA’s Peak Downs mine this morning, which has claimed the life of one worker and left another seriously injured.

The office of Senator Susan McDonald is seeking applications for a full-time ongoing Assistant Digital Media and Communications Adviser (EOB), based in the Townsville, QLD.

The Coalition has announced it will make the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) a permanent institution after the Labor Government committed to only a 10-year extension.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has condemned the Albanese Government’s proposed changes to disaster recovery funding, warning the move will leave regional Queensland communities worse off when the next natural disaster strikes.