Councils in the Richmond and Page federal electorate could be directly slugged with Labor’s carbon tax, leading to likely further rate rises for local homeowners, it has been revealed in Senate Estimates, according to North Coast Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
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THE Nationals have launched a blitz on Labor-held seats in northern NSW, believing the electorates are ripe for assault because of electricity price rises from the carbon tax.
Over the past two days Nationals MPs have targeted two ALP-seats in northern NSW - Page, held by Janel... ...more
THE Tweed is shaping up as a key federal political battleground, with high-profile politicians visiting the region this week to begin the war for northern NSW.
Most of the Federal Nationals team arrived on the Tweed yesterday for a two-day blitz of the region, with leader Warren Truss making it cle... ...more
By Mairi Manley
FEDERAL Nationals leader Warren Truss will take the Nationals parliamentary team on a two-day blitz of the Richmond and Page electorates, starting on Monday.
"It will start with a party room meeting in Tweed Heads then take to the road through both electorates," said spokesman f... ...more
http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/political/foreign-investment-test-inadequate-truss/2505107.aspx ...more
Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has been urged to visit communities in the Murray-Darling Basin so she can hear first-hand how a draft management plan will affect them.
Senator Hanson-Young was absent from meetings in Hay and Mildura this week when a Senate committee took evidence from... ...more
AUSTRALIAN Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has been urged to visit communities in the Murray-Darling Basin.
This is so she can hear first-hand how a draft management plan will affect them.
Senator Hanson-Young was absent from meetings in Hay and Mildura this week when a Senate committee took ev... ...more
http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/finance/caution-urged-on-foreign-investment/2505382.aspx?storypage=1
By TOM CLAPIN
02 Apr, 2012 01:00 AM
WITH foreign investment in agriculture already occurring in Australia, many with in the agricultural industry beli... ...more
THE Nationals have stepped up the offensive against dubious practices by fuel companies in NSW.
Oxley MP Andrew Stoner has urged motorists to report misleading petrol price advertising and signage, while Senator Fiona Nash has flagged that companies’ failure to meet the NSW mandate for a 6 per cent... ...more
By PETER MARTIN
THE Coalition will propose a much tougher line against foreign takeovers of Australian farms in a discussion paper to be unveiled within weeks.
Detailing the approach for the first time yesterday, the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, said the present threshold below which takeovers ... ...more
THE University of New England’s autumn graduations started over the weekend, bringing with them a major windfall to Armidale.
Council estimates reveal that at least $3 million will be injected into the region’s economy during the autumn graduations.
About 260 people graduating from the Schools of ... ...more
The Federal Government has received a backlash from northern cattle industry stakeholders and political opposition over its decision to hand over $20 million to Indonesia to help local farmers increase their beef output.
On Thursday, trade minister Craig Emerson, speaking after a meeting with his I... ...more
By LANAI VASEK and CHRISTIAN KERR
26 March 2012
TONY Abbott has hardened the Coalition's stance on foreign investment amid infighting between Liberal and Nationals MPs over the issue.
The Opposition Leader told Sky News's Australian Agenda that, while it was "very important" for Australia to rem... ...more
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/end-of-the-family-farm/story-fn59niix-1226308620356
By SUE NEALES
24 March 2012
COLEAMBALLY grain farmer John Ward has taken a stand.
He decided early this year not to sell a family cropping and sheep farm in Griffith, NSW, to the Chinese or to a... ...more
http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/political/fuel-companies-not-above-the-law-nash/2497844.aspx
NSW Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash, said fuel companies must be made to comply with the state’s six per cent mandate for ethanol in fuel.
Figures from the Department o... ...more
http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/state/livestock/cattle/senators-lash-out-at-govt-aid-to-indonesia/2498832.aspx
NSW Nationals Senators Fiona Nash and John Williams have condemned Labor plans to provide $20 million to Indonesian beef producers to increase their output.
The senators said th... ...more
THREE coalition senators have moved that the Labor government be more proactive in addressing the worsening shortage of agriculture graduates and skilled workers.
Senators Fiona Nash, Chris Back and Bridget McKenzie introduced the motion that was supported by the Greens and Independent senators.
... ...more
http://www.dimboolacourier.com.au/news.php?newsid=977
14 March 2012
Senator Bridget McKenzie, pictured with state MP Peter Crisp outside the Merbein horticulture research facility closed under Federal Labor, is calling for the government to increase opportunities in agricultural science.
The Se... ...more
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THE Nationals are mounting a renewed push within the Coalition for a commitment to zonal taxation, with some urging support for Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme to be used as a bargaining chip.
Nat... ...more
By NICK HEYDON
18 Feb, 2012 04:00 AM
LACK of interest has forced one of only 11 universities in Australia offering undergraduate agricultural science to suspend its intake of ag students for 2012.
The University of Western Sydney’s (UWS) Hawkesbury campus received less than 10 applicatio... ...more
THE agricultural industry has reached a crisis point that can no longer be ignored.
This is the assessment of Charles Sturt University (CSU) research professor and secretary of the Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture (ACDA) Jim Pratley who is actively pushing to ensure the number of gr... ...more
BY COLIN BETTLES
12 Feb, 2012
THE federal opposition started the new parliamentary year this week by accusing the Labor government of abandoning agriculture.
Shadow Agriculture Minister John Cobb was highly critical of a new mission statement developed by the Australian Department of Agriculture,... ...more
By John Ross
10 February 2012
THE federal opposition has accused the government of trying to avoid scrutiny after it reassigned tertiary education to the Senate estimates committee which oversees economics.
But the government says the change is standard procedure follow... ...more
NARROMINE NEWS
8 Feb, 2012 09:42 AM
Nationals Senator Fiona Nash encourages farmers to give feedback on how the latest supermarket price war on fruit and vegetables will affect them.
“This is another marketing ploy by Coles for commercial gain and it is disappointing that Woolworths has jumped on... ...more
By MICK MCGLONE
7 February 2012
THIS year will always be a bit of a landmark for The Lioness and myself.
If for no other reason than the fact the start of the school year had no impact on our lives, for the first time in 16 years.
The Princess Legend is now a qualified hairdresser while the D-Ma... ...more
10 January 2012
By JOSH FAGAN
HUNDREDS of Bendigo students will have greater access to youth allowance this year, with restrictive regional and inner-regional criteria guidelines scrapped.
An extra 313 tertiary students in Bendigo have qualified for independent youth allowance, after federal gov... ...more
31 December 2011
By LAUREN WILSON
A REGULATION that made it impossible for about 20,500 tertiary students in inner regional areas including Mount Gambier and Townsville to access the same youth allowance benefits as regional and remote students will be rectified from tomorrow.
Nationals senat... ...more
15 December 2011
By COLIN BETTLES
AN estimated 12,000 community members attended today’s Murray Darling Basin Authority meeting in Griffith, expressing dire concern about the draft Basin Plan’s potential impact on their futures, due to its proposed, drastic water reductions.
About 280 local busi... ...more
15 December 2011
By COLIN BETTLES
For story/pic - sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/political/basin-plan-cant-hold-water-at-coleambally/2393804.aspx
WHILE Griffith takes centre stage today, smaller Basin communities like Coleambally are also determined to ensure the... ...more
14 December 2011
by MELANIE SIM
Farmers and politicians are saying it loud and clear: "Compensation just isn't good enough for farmers affected by Coal seam gas activities."
That was one issue of many raised at a meeting yesterday at Mullaley, west of Gunnedah.
It was organised by the Marys Moun... ...more
14 December
NATIONALS Senator Fiona Nash is urging Northern Rivers residents to do their Christmas shopping close to home to support their local businesses and communities.
The call follows a similar message from NSW Business Chamber's Northern Rivers branch regional manager John Murray.
Senator ... ...more
Prime News Tamworth reports on a forum on Coal Seam Gas mining held yesterday at Mullaley in north-west NSW.
See story and interview with Senator Nash -au.prime7.yahoo.com/n2/video/-/watch/27569684/support-for-tighter-controls-on-csg/ ...more
7 December 2011
By LESLIE WHITE
THE Federal Government has no idea whether foreign agricultural investors keep their promises on land use.
And one of the biggest foreign buyers of Australian farmland says the Government should order that agricultural land continue to be farmed - and check to ens... ...more
1 December 2011
By DOMINIC ZIETSCH
THE potential for Grafton Regional Airport to lose its Regional Express (Rex) flights due to rising operating costs was reinforced again yesterday by Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
Senator Nash visited the airport where she met with Rex regional sales manage... ...more
1 December 2011By JAMIE WALKER and BEN PACKHAMFARMERS and other property owners would reap 1 per cent of the value of coal-seam gas extracted from their land under a proposal by Nationals senators to appease rural anger at the industry.The "default agreement", to put a floor on the income paid by CS... ...more
30 November 2011OPINION By SENATOR FIONA NASH WE MUST not jeopardise our own requirements, writes FIONA NASH Foreign investment is going to be, without doubt, one of the most critical issues facing the nation over the coming decades.We need to be certain that in the future this nation is able to fee... ...more
30 November 2011By JADE MARTINhttp://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/griffith-residents-fight-for-their-water/2375569.aspxGRIFFITH residents yesterday rolled up in force to show just how badly the planned water cuts brought about by the Murray-Darling Basin Plan would affect their... ...more
30 November
BY MELODY MONTAGUE
For story/pic, go to: http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/news/general/nationals-pledge-to-continue-fight/2375812.aspx
SHADOW water minister Barnaby Joyce pledged his support to irrigation communities during a visit to Griffith yesterday.
Mr Joyce was in the MIA ... ...more
29 November 2011By KIM WOODS RIVERINA'S green rice fields may be stained red as the Murray Darling Basin Draft plan war hots up.Angry Griffith irrigators and businesses have vowed to take their fight to Canberra's "front porch" to save the region from savage water cutbacks.They called for outcomes a... ...more
28 November 2011By KIM WOODSFRUSTRATIONS over the Murray Darling Basin draft plan are expected to boil over with an influx of politicians to the Riverina tomorrow.Griffith will host a community forum at the Ex-Servicemen’s Club at 11am, with speakers outlining the impact of the plan on their livelih... ...more
27 November 2011
By COLIN BETTLES
NSW Nationals MP Fiona Nash says the Australian Greens are "delusional" for thinking they are becoming more popular in the rural Australia than the Coalition.
Senator Nash expressed outraged at comments from Greens leader Bob Brown earlier this month, follow... ...more
Leslie White | November 16, 2011
AUSTRALIA'S foreign investment watchdog monitors if foreign ag investors keep their promises via "letters from their lawyers".
The senate inquiry into foreign investment has grilled Foreign Investment Review Board officials over the “National Interest”... ...more
If Australia turns a blind eye to climate change it will have to be prepared to deal with the consequences of displaced environmental refugees, the Senate has been told.
The upper house is considering a package of government bills, setting up a carbon pricing regime, approved by the House of Repres... ...more
BY COLIN BETTLES
25 Sep, 2011 04:00 AM
AFTER a gruelling session in Federal Parliament firing barbs at Labor or the Greens, NSW Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash, loves nothing better than retreating home to the sanctity of her family farm.
She may look comfortable in Canberra, biting the heels of... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
29 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM
NSW Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash, says future food security is a major issue in Australia and around the globe.
But she is worried the Federal government has no vision on how it wants rural Australia to look in 20 to 30 years or the policies required to ens... ...more
NATIONALS senator Fiona Nash wants the government to change the youth allowance test for determining if someone has worked enough to deem them "independent".
She said a strict application of the guidelines had disqualified some students from regional areas for whom the parliament ... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
23 Aug, 2011 09:37 AM
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard came under intense fire from Coalition MPs at the Convoy of No Confidence rally after declining an invitation to speak to the protesters.
In attendance, however, was Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott , who was critical o... ...more
RICHARD FOX
22 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM
A FULL review of the controversial scheme that bases financial incentives for rural doctors on a map of Australia is long overdue, according to Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash.
The map used in the Australian Standard Geographical Classification – Remoteness Area... ...more
JULIA Gillard has been warned not to mess with the diesel fuel rebate in her carbon pricing scheme.
The Prime Minister will reveal details of the carbon tax on Sunday but the opposition's warned her today that she'll be in for a fight if she changes the diesel fuel rebate for farmers or concession... ...more
NATIONALS senator Fiona Nash has questioned new figures which suggest the Gillard government's Youth Allowance reforms have been a win for country students.
Senator Nash has led a coalition crusade against "unfair" student income support criteria that make it harder for young people from inner regi... ...more
THERE was a time when sometime farmer and business maverick John Elliott was going to Fosterise the world.
The big blue Australian logo turned up everywhere, from the Melbourne Cup to Monte Carlo.
But has it all come back to bite us on the agricultural backside?
Not only has a demerger of Foster... ...more
FOREIGN investors are circling Australian agribusinesses, just waiting to make their kill, writes KATE DOWLER
Global companies are carving up Australia's agricultural processing and export businesses at an unrelenting gallop.
And some fear consolidations will lead to duopolies, similar to the supe... ...more
Peter Hemphill | May 11, 2011
THE AWB grain business takeover by US agribusiness giant Cargill has met with mixed reactions.
Cargill's successful bid to buy the AWB grain business has drawn mixed reaction from state farm bodies.
The NSW Farmers' Association has slammed the bid, while ... ...more
LYNE MP Rob Oakeshott did not attend a discussion about youth allowance reforms on Wednesday, but one of his staffers did.
Mr Oakeshott has made a formal submission to the review and was represented at the Port Macquarie roundtable by his education adviser Sally Knox because he was unable to att... ...more
ANDREW MARSHALL
05 May, 2011 01:08 PM
The Federal Government has failed to fully consider the foreign takeover implications to Australian graingrowers of US-based Cargill's purchase of AWB's grain trading and handling business, says Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash.
She says the private commoditi... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
05 May, 2011 10:19 AM
NATIONALS Senator, Fiona Nash, has voiced strong concerns about private multi-national trader Cargill’s inability to facilitate continuing grower participation and investment in the Australian grains supply chain following its impending acquisition of AWB.
T... ...more
The federal coalition has accused the government of abandoning Australia's grain growers by not opposing a takeover bid of AWB's old commodity business.
On Wednesday, the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) gave the all-clear to US company Cargill's purchase of AWB Limited's Commodity Manage... ...more
Source: The Daily Examiner
http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2011/04/06/nash-slams-greens-carbon-tax-poll/
THE Nationals Senator for NSW, Fiona Nash, said a poll commissioned by the Greens is manipulative and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
She said the The Greens commissioned a Galaxy... ...more
Nationals senator Fiona Nash has challenged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to a debate on the youth allowance in front of regional voters.
The coalition is still unhappy about changes to youth assistance, introduced last year, which made it harder for those living in "inner regional" areas to be elig... ...more
The political heavyweights continued to head into town last week, the latest being federal Senator Fiona Nash in support of National’s candidate for Orange Andrew Gee.
The pair had the Labor governments - state and federal - in its sights and hit out at regional health and education concerns.... ...more
BY BLAKE NICHOLSON
09 Mar, 2011 08:46 AM
Showing politics is not all rough and tumble is part of the solution to getting more women involved, according to Nationals deputy Senate leader Fiona Nash.
Senator Nash was in Orange to address a Country Women’s Association lunch for Interna... ...more
08 Mar, 2011 12:54 PM
SENATOR for NSW, Fiona Nash has taken the opportunity today, as part of International Women’s Day (IWD), to acknowledge mothers living in rural and regional communities.
The first IWD event was run in 1911, and it has grown to become a global day celebrating the achie... ...more
Future for students still uncertain
Cooma Monaro Express
BY KIRRILY CARBERRY THE federal government has announced it will bring the review date foryouth allowance legislation forward by 12 months to July, 2011 but the future for many students on the Monaro remains uncertain. Students and p... ...more
A SHOWDOWN is looming in federal parliament today over a $300 million Coalition youth allowance bill branded unconstitutional by the government.
Independent MPs will be under pressure over the bill, which would widen youth allowance eligibility for inner-regional students, when it is brought ... ...more
THE federal government has promised to review controversial changes to income support for regional university students.
They have promised to implement changes from the beginning of next year.
But the opposition says it's not prepared to wait and wants its proposal to overhaul the eligibilit... ...more
The Nationals Senator Fiona Nash has welcomed reports the Federal Government is backing down on changes to youth allowance payments to regional students.
Senator Nash has led a campaign to extend individual youth allowance to regional students who have missed out under changes introduced by the Gil... ...more
Julian Drape
February 21, 2011 - 9:44AM
AAP
The federal government has promised to review controversial changes to income support for regional university students and implement changes from the beginning of 2012.
But the opposition says it's not prepared to wait and wants its proposal to overhau... ...more
19 Feb, 2011 04:00 AM
A BILL which has passed through Senate will make it easier for students to get an independent youth allowance.
Students in what are known as inner regional areas previously faced a tougher work test criteria to access independent youth allowance than those living in what ar... ...more
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Youth Allowance Fight Continues (Rob Forgan)
Senate Inquiry into Youth Allowance (Border Watch)
"Street Sweeper" - "Do you think the changes to Youth Allowance, which make it harder for Mount Gambier students to access support for tertiary study will stop people attending university?"... ...more
Simon Benson
From:The Daily Telegraph
February 17, 201
JULIA Gillard is facing a possible revolt from the key independents over her refusal to allow a Coalition Senate Bill extending the youth allowance to regional students to be voted on in the Lower House.
NSW independe... ...more
Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces a battle in her bid to prevent parliament passing a coalition draft law boosting regional student support.
The Senate has passed a bill, proposed by Nationals senator Fiona Nash, to make youth allowance more widely available to regional students.
The government s... ...more
BY LISA COX
11 Feb, 2011 07:53 AM
A BILL that would allow students in inner regional areas to work for just one year before they could receive youth allowance has been passed by the Senate.
The bill, which was introduced after an inquiry into new youth allowance legislation last year, passed th... ...more
11 February 2011 | 01:15:28 PM | Source: AAP
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is determined to block opposition legislation that would allow thousands more regional students to claim the Youth Allowance.
The bill, passed by the Senate on Thursday, has provoked a flurry of predic... ...more
MURWILLUMBAH'S $200,000 plus closed circuit television camera (CCTV) security system has been formally handed over to Tweed Shire Council.
Mayor Kevin Skinner accepted the formal handover on Friday, from the initiators of the 29-camera system, which covers the town CBD, the Murwillumbah and Distric... ...more
Proposed changes to the criteria for Independent Youth Allowance are expected to be raised in the first sitting of federal parliament which resumes today.
The Opposition's Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education, Senator Fiona Nash from Young, says the new rules make it hard for thousands of... ...more
David Uren, Economics correspondent
HOUSE prices have plunged in the towns along the Murray and Darling rivers since the plan to slash water allocations to irrigators was unveiled last year.
The average fall is 10.5 per cent, based on sales results in 20 regional towns in the Murray-Darling Basin ... ...more
26 Jan, 2011 09:32 AM
GRIFFITH has delivered a damning appraisal of the federal government’s voracious grab for water in a show of strength sure to reverberate all the way to Canberra.
More than 1000 people packed the Yoogali Club yesterday to support a host of expert speakers in u... ...more
TINA LIPTAI
26 Jan, 2011 04:00 AM
HUNDREDS of south-west students and parents have backed a push to pressure the federal government to make independent youth allowance accessible to more regional students.
A total of 500 south-west students, parents and other individuals signed a peti... ...more
Andrew Trounson
From:The Australian
January 24, 2011 12:00AM
THE Gillard government is under increasing pressure to boost financial support for rural and regional students, with the Greens putting up a proposal that would cost the budget $200 million a year.
A sepa... ...more
ROBYN MURRAY
14 Jan, 2011 10:17 AM
Mudgee student Grace Segal faces an unexpected challenge as she prepares to start a degree in medicine at the University of Newcastle.
Changes to Independent Youth Allowance eligibility requirements intro... ...more
Wannabe university students in inner regional areas such as Dubbo may be hiding their education goals from parents for fear of burdening them with huge bills, a Senate inquiry into controversial changes to independent Youth Allowance has been told.
A public hearing of the inquiry ... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
04 Jan, 2011 10:33 AM
WATER is the life-blood of Roger Commins’ family business and he is not prepared to give any of it up.
He also has no confidence in the government’s water planning processes and believes nature should be left to its own devices.
“This is ju... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
03 Jan, 2011 11:08 AM
SHADOW Water Minister Barnaby Joyce wants to know what you would do for the Murray Darling Basin, if you had a week to spend as the Prime Minister of Australia.
It was the Senator’s key question to those... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
31 Dec, 2010 11:21 AM
SENIOR National Party figures are fed up with the Greens and radical conservation groups, trying to demonise farmers and making them out to be irresponsible, environmental vandals.
Senator Fiona Nash said the Greens had been “extraordinarily quiet” since th... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
31 Dec, 2010 11:45 AM
RICE Research Australia Manager Russell Ford says growers will “love” a new cold tolerant rice variety that is set to be released in March next year and is expected to yield the “magical” figure of one tonne per megalitre of water.
Mr Ford discussed the new... ...more
Source: Southern Riverina News
THE Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has questioned the use of its own map in determining access to youth allowance, according to Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
The Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education said the revelation came out of inquiry hear... ...more
Lauren Wilson
From:
NATIONALS senator Fiona Nash will push for an inquiry into Youth Allowance payments for university students when parliament resumes.
The Coalition spokeswoman for regional education yesterday said a comprehensive inquiry was needed to explore ho... ...more
BY ELLEN JONES
26 Dec, 2010 03:57 PM
New parents are expected to be the winners in 2011, while young people wishing to go to university will lose out under changes to come into effect on January 1.
The introduction of paid parental leave and new youth allowance arran... ...more
COLIN BETTLES
23 Dec, 2010 04:45 PM
THOUSANDS of Murray Darling Basin residents are on red alert to descend on Canberra early next year, to protest and vent their anger and frustration at the government’s botched water reform measures.
The Murray Darling Basin Authority released its G... ...more
The Federal Opposition says the Government can no longer ignore demands to roll back some of its changes to Youth Allowance eligibility criteria.
The Government changed the criteria for students accessing the support payments, making a distinction between those who live in outer regional areas and ... ...more
Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:34pm AEDT
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says he will support a Coalition bill to roll back some of the Federal Government's changes to Youth Allowance.
The Government changed the criteria for students accessing the support payments, making a distinction between those who l... ...more
Lauren Wilson
From:The Australian
December 27, 2010 12:00AM
JULIA Gillard faces mounting pressure to soften Labor's crackdown on youth allowance payments for some regional students.
The pressure comes after key independent Nick Xenophon told the prime minister... ...more
TALIA PATTISON
21 Dec, 2010 04:00 AM
A GROUP of opposition politicians were in the region last Thursday to spout what they believe should be done in relation to proposed water cuts in the Murrumbidgee Valley.
Queensland Senator and opposition spokesperson for regional development,... ...more
By ZOE MCMAUGH
December 21 2010
Deniliquin Pastoral Times
MURRAY Group of Concerned Communities chair Bruce Simpson has challenged the Coalition to create a new vision for MurrayDarling Basin communities.
He said the basin was created by people who had a vision of a gravity fed irrigation system... ...more
A rural women's group says it is worried students living in some regional areas may be disadvantaged under new eligibility rules for the Youth Allowance.
A Senate committee is conducting an inquiry into a bill that aims to extend Youth Allowance payments to eligible students in "inner-regiona... ...more
WHITTON brothers Tim and Roger Commins have built their world's best practice farming operation through skill, ingenuity and old-fashioned hard work.
They do not take kindly to the federal government's attempts to tear it all down in the name of boosting environmental flows in the M... ...more
RELIEF, it seems, is a long way off for regional students caught in the crossfire of the federal government’s Independent Youth Allowance scheme.
With parliament in recess any decision will be months away as students continue to voice their opposition to the allowance’s eligibility
criteria. Natio... ...more
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December 8 2010
Southern Riverina News
COALITION senators and the Federal Nationals Leader Warren Truss will be in Jerilderie next week, as part of a Murray-Darling Basin tour.
They will investigate issues raised as part of the Murray Darling Basin Plan process, and speak with key stakeholders.
... ...more
The Nationals Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education, Senator Fiona Nash will visit Tamworth and Armidale today.
She will meet with school principals, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England and and the Isolated Children's Parents' Association.
Senator Nash says she i... ...more
Following the recent heavy rain across the state, Nationals Member for Burrinjuck, Katrina Hodgkinson has spoken in the NSW Parliament and made urgent personal and written representations to the NSW government strongly urging a declaration of Young and Weddin Shires as natural disaster areas.
"I am... ...more
16:03 AEST Fri Dec 3 2010
Crystal Ja
Farmers expecting a bumper harvest this season have received a "late kick in the guts" from a deluge of rain that has refused to stop.
Heavy hail and rain across much of southeast Australia have already devastated cherry crops and flooded paddocks, dangerous... ...more
TRANSCRIPT: YOUTH ALLOWANCE CHANGES
Wednesday 25 November 2010
Subjects: Youth Allowance Changes
PRESENTER: The Federal Government has been accused of blocking debate about whether to extend youth allowance to all regional students. The Nationals have been trying to pass a private members bill ... ...more
The Young-based MP Fiona Nash is accusing the Federal Government of pressuring the Senate to block her bill which overhauls the criteria for the independent youth allowance.
The Tertiary Education Minister, Chris Evans, has written to the President of the Senate stating there are 'constitut... ...more
The senator fighting for equal access to independent Youth Allowance for Dubbo students has accused the federal government of trying to “kill off” her private Bill after seeing correspondence between a minister and the Senate president.
The Nationals’ Fiona Nash says Tertiary Education Minist... ...more
THE Opposition has urged all senators to allow regional students access to income support regardless of where they live.
Lower House MPs already have supported a motion to extend Youth Allowance access to students living in inner regional areas who earn $20,000 during a gap year.
The Oppositi... ...more
09 Oct, 2010 04:00 AM
The Coalition is still waiting for a response from independent politicians Andrew Wilkie, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott as Senator Fiona Nash pushes ahead with a proposal to make independent Youth Allowance fairer.
The Coalition is lobbying independent and Green ... ...more
From NineMSN News
The federal opposition has underscored the government's absence from the Murray-Darling Basin, with a show of force at a public meeting about the food bowl's water reforms.
Water Minister Tony Burke has refused to attend any of the Murray Darling Basin Authority's consultation me... ...more
Leslie White | November 5, 2010
Weekly Times
A MOTION aimed at helping rural students access youth allowance has been rammed through the House of Representatives - from the opposition.
It is only the second time in 50 years a motion has made it through the House of Represent... ...more
BY LUCY MORRELL
Cooma Monaro Express
04 Nov, 2010 09:32 AM
OPPOSITION spokesperson for regional education Senator Fiona Nash and a Cooma Centrelink representative will speak about youth allowance eligibility in Cooma later this month.
Discussions will take place on ... ...more
THE coalition is looking to change the eligibility requirements for regional students wanting to access Youth Allowance, just seven months after striking a compromise deal and backing Labor's laws.
Opposition junior regional education spokeswoman Fiona Nash will introduce a private senator's bill... ...more
Zoe Hancock | 8th October 2010
TWEED Shire students are being disadvantaged by government changes to Independent Youth Allowance criteria.
A push from the Opposition has come about this week as students prepare for university next year.
New South Wales Nationals’ senat... ...more
Lauren Wilson and Mark Schliebs
From:The Australian
October 08, 2010 12:00AM
RETURNING water to the Murray-Darling river system may cost many billions of dollars more than predicted.
The social cost, meanwhile, will be felt in the tens of ... ...more
BY LISA COX
07 Oct, 2010 07:57 AM
FEDERAL Member for Calare John Cobb hopes Parliament’s regional independents will back calls to widen access to youth allowance for regional students.
Nationals Senator Fiona Nash has lodged a motion in the house of representatives demanding former independen... ...more
Leslie White & Kate Dowler | October 7, 2010
REGIONAL students may soon get back the Independent Youth Allowance.
A historical union of the Coalition, Independents and Greens may push a Bill supporting the allowance through federal parliament's lower house.
If ... ...more
Leslie White | October 6, 2010
http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/10/06/242221_opinion-columnists.html
THE Coalition's move to make it easier for country students to access independent youth allowance is a shrewd one.
And it could see a Bill passed from Op... ...more
From: The Daily Liberal (2 October 2010)
Andrew Wilkie, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott were playing their cards close to their chests yesterday as Senator Fiona Nash pushed ahead with a proposal to make independent Youth Allowance fairer.
The Coalition is lobbying the independent MPs to support ... ...more
From: The Daily Liberal (1 October 2010)
Cheers went up in Dubbo yesterday when Senator Fiona Nash challenged the new parliament to make independent Youth Allowance fairer.
The senator arranged for a notice of motion to be lodged with the house of representatives requiring the government to urgent... ...more
Source: The Daily Liberal
Congratulations to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash for re-igniting the Youth Allowance issue.
Australia needs students from Dubbo and other regional centres to attend university and our students should have the best chance to go.
At the moment they do not.
Many... ...more
By: Andrew Trounson
THE Gillard government is facing pressure to widen access to the youth allowance for regional students at a cost of about $90 million a year.
The pressure came after the opposition moved to make it easier for them to qualify after working "gap years".
The motion could appeal... ...more
Senator gnashing her teeth
13th August 2010
NSW National Senator Fiona Nash is questioning The Greens’ policies relating to marine parks.
LEE Rhiannon and The Greens threaten the future of the North Coast’s fishing industry, NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash has warned.
Visiti... ...more
Coffs Coast Advocate
12th August 2010
Luke Hartsuyker speaks at his campaign launch yesterday watched by Nationals leader Warren Truss and Senator Fiona Nash.
LUKE Hartsuyker said yesterday the North Coast should become a service delivery hub for corporate Australia.
Speaking at ... ...more
The Ballina Advocate
12th August 2010
THIS was politics ‘old school’ style.
The five candidates in the upcoming Federal election – four standing for the House of Representatives and one for the Senate – sat before an audience of about 200 people at last week’s Association of... ...more
Andrew Trounson
Article from: The Australian
FEDERAL Education Minister Julia Gillard has caved in to pressure and delayed changes to the youth allowance that would have caught out students now working a gap year, but about 61,000 of those on support and working par... ...more
Glenn Milne
Article from: The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25970687-33435,00.html
QUEENSLAND, as they once used to say somewhat disparagingly, is different. Well here's some mail: politically at least, that remains the case. And in ways that may well shap... ...more
Article from www.thepunch.com.au
As a farmer it is my duty to let backyard chook fanciers in on a secret. No chook ever died in credit. That’s why the only chooks that have ever been on our farm have been dead, plucked and ready to cook.
Chooks as pets are the flavour of the month. They are smal... ...more