Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has written to the Federal Health Minister seeking assurances that men living in regional, rural and remote Australia will not lose access to specialist prostate cancer care following the Albanese Government’s decision to withdraw funding from an established national nursing service.

“The overturn of Tanya Plibersek’s ideological section 10 decision on Regis Resources’ McPhillamys project is a major win for the Blayney community, the local workforce, and common sense.
“Tanya Plibersek’s decision was not based in fact, and instead was made with ‘material deficiency in the process,’ and ‘without authority’, as Justice Stellios found.

Today, as Labor introduces its gas reservation legislation, numerous questions remain about the viability and design of the scheme. The number one focus needs to be more Australian gas, for Australians, and for our export partners.

Shadow Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has backed a Coalition bill to prevent Commonwealth, State and Territory laws being used to block, delay or restrict Australian mining, oil and gas projects because of emissions generated when their products are used overseas.

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.