Senator the Hon Jonno Duniam Shadow Minister for the Environment, Fisheries and Forestry Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate Senator for Tasmania Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Shadow Minister for Government Efficiency Senator for the Northern Territory Joint Media Release 11 March 2025 PUT A LINE UNDER IT, LABOR. REVERSE [...]
5 March 2025 In stark contrast to the failings of the Labor Government, a Dutton Coalition Government would ensure that Indigenous heritage protection laws will give certainty to communities while also protecting the economic and cultural interests of Indigenous Australians. The broken Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (ATSIHP) Act, brought in under the [...]
27 February 2025 Today’s acquisition of Southern Cross Austereo is an important moment both for Tasmanians TV viewers who were facing the prospect of a nightly bulletin being dropped and for our Tasmanian local media industry who were facing job cuts. Senator Jonno Duniam led a cross-party push to the Southern Cross Austereo Chair in [...]
26 February 2025 Three Federal Government Departments and three separate Ministers have confirmed that salmon laws the Prime Minister promised 11 days ago have not even started drafting laws, making a mockery of his recent letter to Salmon Australia that committed to save salmon jobs in legislation. If the Prime Minister was serious about protecting [...]
21 February 2025 Recent letters from the three salmon industry representatives, the Leader of the Opposition and the Premier of Tasmania point out to the Prime Minister that his supposed legislative solution to the salmon crisis of his government’s own making is nothing more than a hollow commitment unless it is implemented before the election. [...]
19 February 2025 If the Prime Minister is serious about saving Tasmanian salmon jobs from his own Environment Minister, he must recall the Parliament before the election to pass legislation that protects those jobs. If this does not happen before the election is called, the Prime Minister knows that legislation of this nature would not [...]
15 February 2025 The Prime Minister’s letter to the salmon industry that spruiks a legislative fix to unpick his Government’s EPBC review into salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour is nothing more than a political solution to stave off vote-losses at the impending Federal election. The Prime Minister could have ended the misery that his Labor [...]
11 February 2025 A Coalition motion calling for an end to the Labor-inflicted EPBC process on Macquarie Harbour was defeated in the Senate last night after the Federal Labor Government teamed up with the Greens. Extraordinarily, Independent Tasmanian Senators also abstained from a vote that sought certainty for salmon communities in Tasmania. The joint motion [...]
15 January 2025 The Prime Minister’s visit to Tasmania has already disappointed salmon industry workers after he yet again failed to guarantee that an EPBC review decision on Macquarie Harbour would be made before the election. Shadow Environment, Fisheries and Forestry Minister, Jonno Duniam, is disappointed on behalf of Tasmanian workers who have had their [...]
14 January 2025 The Federal Coalition is renewing its calls for the Federal Labor Government to stand by its commitment to Tasmania’s native forestry sector and not let businesses and jobs be killed off by stealth. This comes after Bendigo Bank has recently indicated that it would not lend to a Tasmanian business involved in [...]