Australia celebrates Christmas 2009 free from the shackles of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and its Emissions Trading Scheme. It was a close call but the Senate managed to defeat this ridiculous new tax that the Prime Minister was so insistent on taking to the Copenhagen Climate Change Confere... ...more
A Tertiary Access Allowance worth $10,000 a year should be given to every student who has to relocate away from home to study at university, a Senate committee has recommended.
Senator Fiona Nash, chair of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee, said the report into Rural and ... ...more
A public forum in Dubbo today heard that wheat growers overwhelmingly want to return to a grower-owned and grower-controlled marketing system.
Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and Nationals Senator for NSW, who attended the forum to support the growers said i... ...more
Senator Fiona Nash has congratulated Pottsville businesswoman Tania Murdock on her preselection as The Nationals’ candidate to contest the seat of Richmond in next year’s federal election.
“Tania is an outstanding candidate with a strong interest in community issues,” Senator Nash said.
“She is pr... ...more
The Productivity Commission is holding a public forum in Dubbo on Wednesday 9 December to discuss wheat export marketing arrangements.
Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, will attend the public forum to support growers who are able to take time away from harvesting. Sh... ...more
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme has been dealt a mortal blow and Australians have been spared from a massive new tax that was going to do nothing to help the environment.
Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and NSW Nationals Senator for NSW, said the Senate vote a... ...more
Education Minister Julia Gillard’s temporary Rural Tertiary Hardship Fund does nothing to address the biggest problem of her tertiary education reforms – the inequity created between regional and metropolitan students.
Senator Fiona Nash, chair of the Senate’s Rural and Regional Affairs and T... ...more
Senator NASH (New South Wales) (1.33 pm)—The Nationals are supportive of the amendments to exclude agricultural emissions. Given our very significant involvement with the farming community, it is obvious we would be doing so. I have had it put to me that excluding agriculture is simply a no-brainer.... ...more