The Labor Government’s $8.3 million grant to the Environmental Defenders Office is looking even more scandalous after a review into the organisation’s use of Commonwealth funding in the Barossa gas pipeline case was quietly released on Thursday night.

Federal Coalition representatives from North Queensland claim regional areas are being punished for not voting Labor as community leaders express shock at Anthony Albanese’s Budget this week.

The Coalition condemns Labor’s last-minute deal to backflip on reducing red tape for Australia’s world-leading gas industry.

Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, has lashed a decision by ANZ bank to refuse funding for new oil and gas projects as weak and counterproductive, saying that Labor’s homegrown energy crisis is a sure sign that Australia needs more gas and oil projects, not less.

The release of Labor’s Future Gas Strategy marks nearly a year since the Government funded itself to do a study into how to fix the problems they themselves created in Australia’s gas market and the economic damage it has caused.

Queensland Senator and University of Queensland alumna, Susan McDonald has demanded stronger action from her former university against increasingly virulent antisemitism occurring on campus.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has slammed an announcement by Federal and State Labor of a $40 million household cyclone resilience grants package for North Queensland, saying the State Government should increase the funding to the full amount North Queenslanders pay in Stamp Duty on insurance policies and relax income eligibility rules to give genuine relief from soaring insurance costs.

 Federal Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has hailed the opening of Olive Downs steel-making coal mine in Central Queensland, and urged the Albanese Government to remove impediments on the coal sector.

Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has questioned the Albanese Government’s genuine desire to back Australian critical mineral interests, saying today’s funding announcement in Gladstone does not reverse the policy failures of the last two years.

This is a total failure of leadership by Premier Steven Miles and Prime Minister Athony Albanese.  Sadly, the people of Mossman will pay the price for Labor’s disinterest and apathy towards an iconic far northern business, in an iconic Queensland industry.