Nationals Candidate for Calare Sam Farraway has welcomed the introduction of legislation by Shadow Minister for the Environment Jonathan Duniam to overturn Labor’s decision to halt the Blayney Gold Mine project. Mr Farraway said the unnecessary and harmful decision by the Labor Government has caused significant disruption to the Central West community and undermined the…
Nationals Member for Clarence, Richie Williamson, on site with Richmond Valley Council’s Asset Planning & Quality Assurance Officer, Jack Baker and Manager Asset Planning and Systems, Kim Anderson who will oversee the project. Nationals Member for Clarence, Richie Williamson has welcomed Richmond Valley Council’s successful funding application for the West Street, Casino, footpath project. The…
Prime Minster Anthony Albanese has refused to attend the National Farmer Rally outside Parliament House, ignoring hundreds of farmers who travelled from all over Australia to plead with the Labor Government to stop its anti-farming agenda. Nationals Leader David Littleproud said the Prime Minister had once again demonstrated complete contempt towards farmers and rural, regional…
NSW Shadow Minister for Water, Steph Cooke, has expressed shock and deep concern following an admission by the NSW Water Minister that when it comes to the Commonwealth’s controversial water buybacks, her only option is to plead, “please don’t do that.” Ms Cooke said the Minister admitted during Budget Estimates that despite the well-documented harm…
NSW Nationals Leader Dugald Saunders said Labor’s announcement of a trial of average speed cameras in regional NSW is a lose/lose approach to road safety that is clearly looking to sneakily raise revenue from regional residents. The trial will take place in two areas: • Pacific Highway between Kew and Lake Innes (Port Macquarie) –…
Nationals Member for Myall Lakes, Tanya Thompson, is joining the Pink Up Forster Tuncurry campaign by hosting a special “Pink Up & Paint” event on October 27 to raise funds and awareness for the McGrath Foundation’s Breast Care Nurses. Mrs Thompson said Forster Tuncurry will be turning pink this October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.…
The NSW Nationals have raised concerns around the delayed rollout of Jack’s Law, which would give police powers to use metal detection wands, as knife crime plagues NSW. In the three months since Jack’s Law passed the NSW Parliament, the Minns Labor Government has made little progress. A Budget Estimates hearing has been told the…
A teacher at Coffs Harbour’s Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School has been awarded a prestigious Aboriginal Languages Education Scholarship. Nationals Member for Coffs Harbour, Gurmesh Singh, has congratulated language teacher Blake Cusack on her outstanding achievement. “This important scholarship program aims to contribute to the growth of Aboriginal languages by supporting recipients just like Blake to…
The NSW Nationals are calling on the Federal Government to back the NSW screen industry by implementing Australian content quotas. The call follows the success of the Australian Children’s Content Summit in Coffs Harbour, where concerns were raised over major platforms not supporting local industry. The Nationals are calling for quotas of up to 20…
Nationals Leader, David Littleproud, and Nationals’ candidate for Calare, Sam Farraway, are touring through Lithgow and other parts of the Central West, outlining the benefits nuclear energy will bring to the region. Mr Littleproud said it is clear local businesses are struggling with Labor’s soaring energy prices because Labor’s ideology and all-renewables approach isn’t working.…
Today, September 3, is Australian National Flag Day. Proclaimed as a national day in 1996, it’s a celebration of the first time our flag was flown on September 3, 1901, at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, which was the site of Australia’s first Parliament. It was on that day that Prime Minister Edmund Barton…
New figures showing a sharp drop in mineral and petroleum exploration have prompted urgent calls for the Albanese Labor Government to reverse its attacks on the resources sector, with warnings investor confidence continues to fall. Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald said the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showing a 5.5% drop…
Upper Orara Public Hall is now more energy and cost efficient thanks to the arrival of a new solar battery. Nationals Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said the 13.5kWh Tesla Powerwall Battery was funded by a $15,900 NSW Government grant through the Community Building Partnership Program. “The Upper Orara Hall Committee works hard to…
Nationals’ Leader David Littleproud said energy bills across Australian households could have been lowered already, if Labor hadn’t been driven by an anti-gas ideology throughout its first term in government. Mr Littleproud has welcomed Senex’s $1 billion Atlas and Roma North gas project, announced in late June, but said it could have been up and…
Police shortages across NSW are worsening under the Minns Labor Government with more than a thousand extra officers leaving the job in the past year. In a Budget Estimates hearing today it was revealed the police force is 2279 officers below its authorised strength, which is almost double the gap of 1000 officers recorded in…
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