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…
15 December 2024 Anthony Albanese has failed to give Tasmanians the certainty that they deserve as he leaves Tasmania’s West Coast without guaranteeing that a decision on the salmon industry in Macquarie Harbour will be made before the end of the parliamentary term. This is the second Christmas in a row that the town of…
13 December 2024 After a near two-year campaign by Tasmanian Liberal representatives, the Federal Government have finally agreed to exempt the $240 million federal contribution for the Macquarie Point stadium from our GST calculations. The Prime Minister has consistently rejected this idea on visits to Tasmania, previously stating that he was “not quite sure why…
20 November 2024 The Federal Coalition are extremely disappointed that Federal Labor, Greens and various crossbench Senators have teamed up to block a commonsense Bill that would have overturned Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s disastrous decision that killed off the $1 billion McPhillamys gold mine project. The Private Senators Bill was voted against by 27…
19 November 2024 Labor Senators and members of the crossbench will have a final opportunity to right the wrong that the Federal Government inflicted on the central west of New South Wales as the Coalition will put to a vote its Bill to overturn Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s disastrous section 10 declaration in the Senate…
18 November 2024 The Federal Greens’ renewed demands to end native forestry in exchange for support for the Government’s flawed Nature Positive laws need to be ruled out by the Federal Labor Government immediately, Coalition Shadow Forestry Minister Jonno Duniam says: “As Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese made an ironclad commitment to Tasmanians that he would…
12 November 2024 Tasmania’s salmon industry workers are still not reassured that their futures are secure, as the Albanese Government attempts to distract away from the fact that two reviews enforced on our community by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek could still spell the end of their livelihoods at any minute. Shadow Environment, Fisheries and Forestry…
