Todayâs 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 Nationalsâ 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 Governmentâs commitment to place at least 30 per cent of Australiaâs 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 Queenslandâs 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 Laborâs new working holiday visa arrangements, warning regional employers will struggle to keep businesses running and get crops to market.
The Federal Governmentâs treatment of Queensland councils is shaping as the one disaster they wonât be able to recover from.
Laborâs 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 Queenslandâs Boyne aluminium smelter, by fast-tracking critical energy projects and reversing Laborâs changes that hold back critical projects.
The Coalitionâs number one gas policy priority is more gas, for Australians, delivering cheaper power bills. Todayâs release of Laborâs 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.
The Coalition has a clear plan to get Australiaâs gas industry moving again. It means more Australian gas, more investment, affordable and greater energy security.Â
Anthony Albanese continues to snub regional councils expressing concerns about new federal disaster funding arrangements, telling ratepayers to pick up the bill for his Governmentâs cuts.
Prime Minister Anthony Albaneseâs 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 Governmentâs announcement that the Browse LNG project in WA would be declared a âState Significant Projectâ 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 BMAâs Peak Downs mine this morning, which has claimed the life of one worker and left another seriously injured.
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 Governmentâs proposed changes to disaster recovery funding, warning the move will leave regional Queensland communities worse off when the next natural disaster strikes.
Shadow Minister for Northern Australia and Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has slammed the Albanese Government for turning its back on flood-ravaged North and North West Queensland producers by refusing to support a restocking allowance following devastating floods.
The Coalition has urged an upcoming review of Australiaâs Sugar Code of Conduct to strengthen protections for cane growers across North Queensland.
Shadow Resources and Northern Australia Minister Susan McDonald said regional communities will stand to lose as Labor commands Queensland companies to export gas to failing southern states – and miss out on royalty payments as a result.
After two days of hearings into the Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, one thing is abundantly clear: this inquiry is not about getting a fair return for Australians, it is about shutting down the gas industry altogether.
Shadow Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Susan McDonald, says hearings this week into the Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources have revealed a coordinated campaign by the Greens and Independents, supported by Labor, to shut down Australiaâs gas industry.
Mining doesnât just support the Australian economy, it is the economy.Â
But numerous forces are arrayed against this important industry. Forces who receive foreign donations from sources they refuse to reveal.
The Albanese Governmentâs plan to impose a retrospective tax on foreign investment dating back nearly two decades is a reckless cash grab that threatens millions of Australian jobs and damages the nationâs global reputation as a safe place to invest.
Shadow Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, is calling on the Albanese Government to level with Australians about its fuel strategy as farmers and businesses struggle to pay costs and stay afloat.
Shadow Minister for Resources and for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has warned Australia is heading towards a preventable winter gas squeeze, following the latest ACCC gas inquiry which confirms tightening supply across the east coast.
Shadow Minister for Resources and for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has called on the Federal Government to urgently deploy all available levers to fast-track the Perdaman urea plant and prevent a catastrophic failure of Australiaâs food production sector.
Whilst there remain many challenges facing Australia and our energy mix, there is still hope on the horizon. As I have said, I have faith in the Australian spirit.Â
We have the best resources in the world. We have the ingenuity, the drive, and the knowledge to maximise them.Â
We should not be energy-reliant, but energy-independent. We should not be in the position that we are in – today – ever again. We should be pulling every lever available to us: coal, gas, uranium, oil – and we can do that by drilling and digging what we have in abundance here.
