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.

Australian culture, peace and tolerance is being threatened.  Because genocide never starts with killings and gas chambers, it starts with identification, name calling, and exclusion from public places.  

The Labor Government has put Australia’s natural gas market under extreme pressure, with heavy-handed interventions and policies that are harming investment, and suffocating supply.

Claims that banning commercial net fishing is necessary to protect the Great Barrier Reef and tourism jobs ignores the human cost of unnecessary and harsh government intervention, and also raises serious national security questions for North Queensland.

The Federal offshore oil and gas regulator is listing aimlessly in the murky waters of poor regulatory clarity, taxpayer-funded environmental lawfare, and a Government that seems intent on persecuting the oil and gas industry to appease Sydney and Melbourne elites.

Farmers and environmentalists alike must be alarmed by the lack of action by State and Federal Governments on fire management but there is still time for urgent action across Northern Australia to prevent further destruction.  As bushfires begin to rage, time is still available to prioritise clearing firebreaks, backburning and banning any firelighting activities, particularly in national parks. 

Federal Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, has labelled Queensland and Federal Labor’s attacks on Australian coal mining “utter madness” as figures show coal’s enormous contribution to Queensland’s economy.