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LABOR GIVES CRUMBS TO NORTH QUEENSLAND CYCLONE FUND

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.

Wednesday, 24 April 2024

LABOR TOLD: ‘DON’T GO COLD ON COAL’

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.

Friday, 19 April 2024

LABOR’S DIRECTIONLESS CRITICAL MINERALS POLICY FORGETS FUNDAMENTALS

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.

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

MOSSMAN MILL CLOSURE A FAILURE OF LABOR LEADERSHIP

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.

Friday, 12 April 2024

DARWIN MIDDLE ARM HEARINGS “FARCICAL”

Shadow Minister for Resources and for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has labelled a Greens-led Senate Inquiry into the Northern Territory’s Middle Arm development precinct a “farce” amid revelations witnesses at this week’s Darwin hearings had been threatened with “tribal punishment”.

Thursday, 11 April 2024

EDO CAUGHT FUNDRAISING OFF BACK OF ANTI-COAL COURT CAMPAIGN

The Environmental Defenders Office has been accused again of launching vexatious legal action to hamper approved developments, this time in an attempt to scuttle a new Queensland steel-making coal mine.

Thursday, 11 April 2024

GAS REPORT HIDES LABOR’S REAL INTENTIONS

Today’s release of the ACCC Quarterly Gas Inquiry report claims that there will be no gas shortfalls this year, however it hides Labor’s true colours on gas supply. Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, highlighted that the ‘surplus’ of gas on the east coast was in fact due to a decrease in demand as manufactures close Australian operations, rather than increased supply.

Friday, 5 April 2024

RESOURCES CONTINUES TO PAY THE BILLS DESPITE LABOR UNDERMINING THE SECTOR

The release of the March Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ) highlights that despite easing global prices for coal and gas, Australia’s resources sector is still holding up the national accounts with $417 billion in earnings for 2023-24, as Australian steel-making coal continues to dominate global markets.

Thursday, 28 March 2024

LABOR ABANDONS BIPARTISANSHIP PUTTING OFFSHORE GAS AT RISK

Labor’s appalling approach to bipartisanship has been displayed yet again, with their unnecessary capitulation to Greens pressure to block voting on their own legislation fixing offshore gas regulations.

Thursday, 28 March 2024

EASTER FISH FEASTS UNDER THREAT FROM LABOR’S NET BAN

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, and Queensland seafood identities have warned the traditional Australian Easter fish banquet is under threat unless the Queensland and Federal Governments stand up to a UNESCO demand to ban net fishing and instead back the state’s well-regulated and sustainable commercial fishers.

Wednesday, 27 March 2024

LABOR PUSHING GAS OFF THE CLIFF

Dire shortfall warnings from the energy market regulator, and reports of using diesel to prop up gas generators are yet another wakeup call for the Federal Government and its energy policies.
Senator Susan McDonald, Shadow Minister for Resources, said that thanks to Labor’s utter incompetence in managing our gas and energy market over the last two years, Australians can expect gas shortfalls earlier than first forecast.

Thursday, 21 March 2024

COPPER AT RISK DUE TO LABOR’S DELAY

After watching Australia’s nickel crisis unfold in January this year, thanks to the Government’s lack of direction in the critical minerals sector, Australia’s copper industry

Wednesday, 13 March 2024

CRITICAL MINERALS & ENERGY INVESTMENT CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION, BRISBANE

I want to start my remarks by reaffirming that the Coalition is a strong and ardent supporter of the resources sector, and is committed to the future of mining in this country.

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

FLAT-FOOTED LABOR FAILS NICKEL

Today, the Government has finally accepted the Coalition’s advice to include nickel in the critical minerals list. Senator Susan McDonald, Shadow Minister for Resources, has highlighted that despite calling for nickel to be included in the Critical Minerals List in June last year, it has taken Labor an unfolding crisis to act.

Friday, 16 February 2024

LABOR IDEOLOGICALLY AGAINST MAJOR CRIME CRACKDOWN

The sight of the Queensland Premier laughing when asked by a journalist about youth crime should outrage everyone.
But it’s no use campaigning for Labor to crack down on criminals – their own party rules prevent them from doing so.

Thursday, 15 February 2024

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE – PROBE INTO POTENTIAL EDO MISCONDUCT MUST BE EXPANDED

Calls for the Departmental review into the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) to be expanded into a comprehensive investigation and for the next multi-million dollar payment to be cut have been turbocharged by Coalition Senators after more revelations over the mishandling of the $8.3 million grant were exposed at Senate Estimates.

Monday, 12 February 2024

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE – COALITION WILL DEFUND THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS OFFICE

Only a Coalition Government will hold the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) accountable by ceasing the $8.3 million in Government handouts introduced by Labor.

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE – LABOR STARVED OF SOLUTIONS WHILE COST OF LIVING CRISIS RAGES

Labor’s announcement of ‘business as usual’ levels of natural gas supply has been labelled a bad joke by the Coalition, exposing what it says is a government starved of real solutions to Australia’s cost of living crisis.

Monday, 22 January 2024

FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND FLOOD DAMAGE ON MASSIVE SCALE

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has heaped praise on flood recovery crews and volunteers in Far North Queensland after witnessing widespread devastation and heartache from Cairns to Mareeba and Cooktown.

Monday, 15 January 2024

BANKS MUST GRANT LOAN DEFERMENT TO FLOOD VICTIMS

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has called for all banks to grant deferment on loan repayments for North Queensland businesses and homeowners affected by floods while they can recover financially.

Monday, 15 January 2024

60 PER CENT OF PIPELINE OF IRON ORE, COAL AND GAS PROJECTS UNDER THREAT FROM LABOR’S BAD DECISIONS

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.

Tuesday, 9 January 2024

CRITICAL MINERALS UPDATE TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, AS LABOR CONTINUES TO SQUANDER AUSTRALIA’S POTENTIAL

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.

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

INCREASED COAL FORECAST PUTS THE LIE TO BOWEN’S FANTASY COP28 PLEDGES

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).

Monday, 18 December 2023

OPINION: AUSTRALIA BECOMING UNINVESTABLE

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.

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

OPINION: THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY

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.

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

JOINT STATEMENT – LABOR STILL HAS NO LONG-TERM SOLUTION TO INCREASE NATURAL GAS SUPPLY

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.

Monday, 27 November 2023

OPINION: HARM OF NET FISHING BANS WILL BE WIDESPREAD

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.

Monday, 27 November 2023

OPINION: LAWFARE THREATENS ECONOMY

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.

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

OPINION: GOVERNMENTS FAIL FIRE MANAGEMENT BASICS

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.

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

QUEENSLAND RESOURCES COUNCIL 2023 ANNUAL LUNCH FORUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Labor governments have changed from understanding the need for mining investment for jobs and wealth generation, to adherents of the precautionary principle, an innocuous sounding but sinister approach to development and prosperity. They are now a genuine threat to Australia’s competitiveness for new jobs, new projects, and continued prosperity for the next generation.

Thursday, 9 November 2023

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