Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has dismissed the Federal Governmentâs much-vaunted âNorthern Australia Action Plan 2024-2029â as a âno action planâ that offers little hope for generational change in the region.
Strategic investment in infrastructure, skills and industries will not only strengthen Northern Australia, but also position the nation as a key driver of economic growth, diplomacy, defence and biosecurity protection throughout the whole region, ensuring that we remain competitive in the global market.
Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has urged the Albanese Labor Government to release the shackles it has imposed on Australian mining so companies can better weather volatile world markets.
Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has slammed Labor State and Federal Governments for allowing yet another North Queensland water project to languish in a funding and regulatory quagmire.
So I’m delighted to introduce a man who will fight for us, who will fight for you. He’s strong, he’s courageous, and he is our Federal National Party Leader, David Littleproud.
The suspension of BHPâs Nickel West operations is one of the first casualties of Laborâs rushed, fledgling Future Made in Australia policy.
The June 2024 Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ) release highlights the strong outlook of Australiaâs resources sector, however details the need for continued support and investment in our resources sector.
Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has blasted anti-gas âfalsehoodsâ from the Greens and environmental groups while welcoming the long-overdue approval for the expansion of Senexâs Atlas and Roma North natural gas developments in Queenslandâs Surat Basin.
What would you call a broken promise? Maybe you seek to deceive, to delude, to falsify, to mislead or to con? In April 2022 then Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese visited Cairns during the election campaign to promise $107.5 million for the Cairns Water Security Stage 1 project.
The Townsville Reef HQ Aquarium is at risk of permanent closure because of the Albanese Labor government’s failure to include $100 million in funding in its last budget last month.
âLaborâs shambolic handling of Australiaâs gas industry is now having real consequences â consequences they were repeatedly warned about,â said Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald of revelations that gas supply on the east coast may be inadequate to meet peak winter demand.
There is a risk of Australia becoming a very principled but very poor country, and this is something we should avoid.
Shadow Minister for Northern Australia and Resources, Senator Susan McDonald has welcomed the Federal Governmentâs backflip on ânonsensicalâ changes to the Pacific Australian Labour Mobility (PALM) Scheme that caused farmers employment problems.
Reports that federal, state and territory authorities across Australia have signalled their intention to increase buffel grass control efforts through greater regulation and expenditure of many millions of taxpayer dollars, should prompt the agriculture sector and regional communities to question the priorities of our biosecurity agencies. Â
The Labor Governmentâs $8.3 million grant to the Environmental Defenders Office is looking even more scandalous after a review into the organisationâs 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 Albaneseâs Budget this week.
The Coalition condemns Laborâs last-minute deal to backflip on reducing red tape for Australiaâs 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 Laborâs homegrown energy crisis is a sure sign that Australia needs more gas and oil projects, not less.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
