Today’s High Court decision on the Mount Pleasant coal mine should be a wake-up call for governments across Australia. The decision highlights just how difficult Australia has made it to develop the resources that underpin our economy, our energy security and the living standards of Australian families.

Northern Australia will be a major beneficiary of the Liberals and Nationals’ Australia-First Migration Plan, which will cut migration numbers while protecting workforce pathways needed by regional businesses and major projects.

The Coalition has been clear: we will not support a gas reservation policy that is not evidence-based or backed by research demonstrating it will deliver more gas and more investment, not less.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has backed Australian fishers worried about being collateral damage in a renewed push by the Albanese Government and environmental activists to lock up vast areas of ocean. Recreational and commercial fishers have questioned the scale and intent of a federal review into 44 Australian Marine Parks as part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to place at least 30 per cent of Australia’s oceans under highly protected marine park zoning by 2030.

The Queensland LNP Government is being urged by Federal colleagues to seek a three-year extension of North Queensland’s gillnet fishery rather than shutting it down before a $9 million government research program into alternative fishing methods is complete.
Queensland Senator Susan McDonald and Member for Dawson Andrew Willcox have written to Queensland Primary Industries Minister Tony Perrett and Environment Minister Andrew Powell seeking a deferral of the scheduled 30 June 2027 phase-out until at least 2030.

Shadow Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has called for primary producers to submit examples of red tape hampering their ability to improve productivity and profitability.

Shadow Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has lashed Labor’s new working holiday visa arrangements, warning regional employers will struggle to keep businesses running and get crops to market.

The Federal Government’s treatment of Queensland councils is shaping as the one disaster they won’t be able to recover from.
Labor’s proposed changes to the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements should alarm every Queenslander who relies on the food and resources produced in our regions.

The Coalition will introduce legislation to help both the Whyalla steelworks blast furnace and bring back the manufacture of structural steel, as well as help the Tomago aluminium smelter and Queensland’s Boyne aluminium smelter, by fast-tracking critical energy projects and reversing Labor’s changes that hold back critical projects.

The Coalition’s number one gas policy priority is more gas, for Australians, delivering cheaper power bills. Today’s release of Labor’s draft domestic gas reservation policy provides a welcome opportunity for the Coalition to scrutinise critical domestic energy policy by a Government that has failed to deliver cheaper energy for Australians.