From The Land, By Clancy Yeates
A GROUP of irate farmers has launched a legal challenge against BHP Billiton in to bid to stop the company from developing coalfields in the state's north-west.
Landowners and residents from the Liverpool Plains, near Tamworth, sought to overturn a B... ...more
A Fair Go For Rural and Regional Students
The Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee has recommended that the Government create a Tertiary Access Fund for rural and regional students.
The Committee tabled its report into the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendme... ...more
Samantha Maiden, Online Political Editor
CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong has conceded an emissions trading scheme won't stop sea levels rising in Australia without global action.
Senator Wong was responding today to a parliamentary report that warns thousands of ... ...more
The Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009 (the bill) was introduced into the House of Representatives on 10 September 2009. The bill was introduced into the Senate on 17 September 2009. On the same day, the Selection of Bills Committee referred the p... ...more
The Nationals Senators for New South Wales Fiona Nash and John Williams say wheat growers throughout Australia should lodge a submission to a Productivity Commission inquiry into wheat export marketing arrangements.
The Productivity Commission will review the operation and the costs and benefits of... ...more
The adjustment by the Rudd Labor Government to allow beef imports from countries affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) raises one question: why?
Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and Senator for NSW, said she had serious concerns with the change to Austra... ...more
The National Party will not support an emissions trading scheme, regardless of any concessions for farmers.
The Federal Government could drop agriculture from the trading scheme after the Opposition demanded several key changes to the legislation.
But despite the National Farmers Federation backin... ...more
Matthew Franklin and Lenore Taylor
THE Nationals have put themselves at odds with their traditional constituency by rejecting a National Farmers Federation demand they scrap their trenchant opposition to carbon emissions trading.
And the Liberals have put climate change mavericks on notice that bu... ...more
The Nationals support the negotiation of amendments which make Labor’s proposed emissions trading scheme better for regional Australia.
Senator Fiona Nash, deputy leader of the Nationals in the Senate, said it was still a bad scheme. “I have said from day one that I cannot support any scheme that a... ...more
ABC Central West
A Senate inquiry into proposed Youth Allowance changes has been told parents' assets and their income threshold are the main barriers for students seeking financial help.
Four pupils from Orange, Trangie and Cowra gave evidence at a public hearing in Canberra yesterday.
The Feder... ...more