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Media release – Albo comes to Tasmania to campaign on Voice – but must promise to not take our GST away

31 August 2023 When the PM visits Tasmania today to tell Tasmanians to vote for his Voice proposal, he must address the other issues confronting Tasmanians. The last time Anthony Albanese came to Tasmania, he provided $240 million for a waterfront stadium. The thing he didn’t tell Tasmanians was that this funding was not exempt [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:44:02+10:00August 31st, 2023|Media Releases|

Media Release – Duniam urgently calls on Prime Minister to increase Federal control of forestry industry

22 August 2023 Shadow Forestry Minister Senator Jonno Duniam has called on the Albanese Government to urgently step in to increase Federal control of the forestry industry, amid a crisis in the industry. On National Forestry Day, Senator Duniam advocated for strong, immediate action by Federal Labor, who recently watered down their position on forestry [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:51:01+10:00August 22nd, 2023|Media Releases|

Media Release – Forestry, LEAN and ALP Conference

16 August 2023   Shadow Environment, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Jonno Duniam fears that the native forestry industry will be sacrificed on the altar of extreme left politics at this weekend’s Federal Labor Conference in Brisbane. During the May 2022 election, then Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese wrote to forestry workers in Tasmania to assure the [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:52:58+10:00August 16th, 2023|Media Releases|

Media Release – Duniam calls on Plibersek to follow industry lead and save Jobs and Skate – it can be done

12 August 2023 Zero extinctions and zero job losses can be achieved if Tanya Plibersek accepts the invitation from Salmon industry leaders on a way forward to protect the Maugean Skate in partnership with industry. "Industry have shown leadership on this matter and instead of waiting for further bureaucratic discussions and reports, Tanya Plibersek can [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:54:04+10:00August 12th, 2023|Media Releases|

Media Release – Labor’s brazen claims on Coalition’s Great Barrier Reef legacy

1 August 2023 The Coalition notes UNESCO’s draft decision overnight regarding the Great Barrier Reef. it is absurd that Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek are using the report to launch political attacks on the Coalition Government’s record on policies and funding in relation to the Reef. The Great Barrier Reef was actually first foreshadowed for [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:58:18+10:00August 1st, 2023|Media Releases|

Media Release – Labor ripping the heart out of Tasmania’s Antarctic Program

29 July 2023 The Federal Opposition is stunned that Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has cut $25 million to Tasmania’s Australia Antarctic Division (AAD). Federal Shadow Environment Minister and Liberal Senator for Tasmania, Jonno Duniam, had these comments that follow Minister Plibersek’s visit to the AAD in Hobart only four weeks ago. “These cost cuts are [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:57:38+10:00July 29th, 2023|Media Releases|

30 June 2023 – Media Release – Plibersek’s Humiliating Backdown On Nature Repair

Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has been forced into a humiliating backdown today after her nature repair market legislation attracted intense criticism in a Senate committee inquiry. Early on Friday afternoon, the Environment and Communications Committee was notified that Ms Plibersek had indefinitely postponed the parliamentary consideration of her two nature repair market Bills: the [...]

By |2023-07-18T16:39:33+10:00June 30th, 2023|Media Releases|

Op-ed – The Advocate – Labor spending big, but not delivering for Tasmania – 30/06/2023

Tasmanians were promised the world by the Labor Party before the last election. We were promised a safe pair of hands, that all families would be better off, aged care would be fixed, power prices would be $275 lower, mortgages would be cheaper, real wages would be higher and taxes wouldn't be touched. Life would [...]

By |2023-09-27T09:58:45+10:00June 30th, 2023|Media Releases|

5 June 2023 – Media Release – Concerning Signs For Future Decision Making In Environment Portfolio

Tanya Plibersek’s apparent approach to decision making in the Environment portfolio spells disaster for many of our productive and economy-driving industries. Today’s decision to expand the Macquarie Island Marine Park, tripling the current size, is a decision that has been made without any regard for economic impacts. Industry themselves designed a plan that would achieve [...]

By |2023-07-18T16:36:43+10:00June 5th, 2023|Media Releases|
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