HIGHER TAXES, SLOWER APPROVALS: LABORâS FUTURE GAS STRATEGY
The Coalition condemns Laborâs last-minute deal to backflip on reducing red tape for Australiaâs world-leading gas industry.
Thursday, 16 May 2024
ANZ BANK ABANDONS AUSTRALIAN ENERGY SECURITY TO APPEASE RADICAL ACTIVISTS
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 Laborâs homegrown energy crisis is a sure sign that Australia needs more gas and oil projects, not less.
Friday, 10 May 2024
LABORâS HISTORY OF ANTI-GAS ACTIONS DROWNS OUT HOT AIR OF âGAS STRATEGYâ
The release of Laborâs 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 Australiaâs gas market and the economic damage it has caused.
Friday, 10 May 2024
UNIVERSITIES MUST LEAD IN FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM
Queensland Senator and University of Queensland alumna, Susan McDonald has demanded stronger action from her former university against increasingly virulent antisemitism occurring on campus.
Friday, 3 May 2024
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: âDONâT GO COLD ON COALâ
 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
LABORâS DIRECTIONLESS CRITICAL MINERALS POLICY FORGETS FUNDAMENTALS
Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has questioned the Albanese Governmentâs genuine desire to back Australian critical mineral interests, saying todayâs 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 Laborâs disinterest and apathy towards an iconic far northern business, in an iconic Queensland industry.
Friday, 12 April 2024
DARWIN MIDDLE ARM HEARINGS âFARCICALâ
Shadow Minister for Resources and for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has labelled a Greens-led Senate Inquiry into the Northern Territoryâs Middle Arm development precinct a âfarceâ amid revelations witnesses at this weekâs Darwin hearings had been threatened with âtribal punishmentâ.
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
Todayâs release of the ACCC Quarterly Gas Inquiry report claims that there will be no gas shortfalls this year, however it hides Laborâs true colours on gas supply. Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, highlighted that the âsurplusâ 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, Australiaâs 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
Laborâs 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 LABORâS 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 stateâs 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 Laborâs 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 LABORâS DELAY
After watching Australiaâs nickel crisis unfold in January this year, thanks to the Governmentâs lack of direction in the critical minerals sector, Australiaâs 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 Coalitionâs 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 itâs no use campaigning for Labor to crack down on criminals â 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
Laborâs announcement of âbusiness as usualâ 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 Australiaâs 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 LABORâS 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 AUSTRALIAâS 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 Laborâs lethargy.
Wednesday, 20 December 2023
INCREASED COAL FORECAST PUTS THE LIE TO BOWENâS 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 Australiaâs 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. Â
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
JOINT STATEMENT – LABOR STILL HAS NO LONG-TERM SOLUTION TO INCREASE NATURAL GAS SUPPLY
The Labor Government has put Australiaâs natural gas market under extreme pressure, with heavy-handed interventions and policies that are harming investment, and suffocating supply.
Monday, 27 November 2023
