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.

Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, has welcomed the Federal Government’s support in honouring Coalition funding commitments for critical minerals producers announced in last year’s Budget.

When it comes to the increasing quantity of renewable technologies being deployed such as solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, many critical minerals will play a fundamental role in enabling that production.

I congratulate the owners of New Acland mine for staying the course and resisting one of the most concerted efforts by environment groups seen in Queensland to kill this project at every step.

The Federal Government has relented under fierce criticism and agreed to back a motion moved by Senator Susan McDonald to reinstate a parliamentary body to oversee issues and development in Northern Australia.

While no one is blaming the Albanese Labor Government for a surge in international gas prices, it is the Government’s responsibility to come up with a plan to address this crisis.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has slammed the Labor Government for abandoning Northern Australia on the first day of Parliament. Labelling the move as “short-changing Australia’s future”, the Shadow Minister savaged Labor’s axing of the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has suggested suspending flights from Bali should be considered, saying an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Australia would unleash a crisis of “biblical proportions”.  

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has suggested suspending flights from Bali should be considered, saying an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Australia would unleash a crisis of “biblical proportions”.