Independent youth allowance will be on the Nationals’ Tamworth campaign agenda tomorrow.
Nationals Senator for NSW and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education, Fiona Nash, and the Nationals candidate for Tamworth, Kevin Anderson, will meet with students, families and others conc... ...more
The Coalition’s Regional Education spokeswoman, Senator Fiona Nash, has challenged the Prime Minister to a debate on independent youth allowance.
Tomorrow marks a year since the Labor government made changes to the independent youth allowance eligibility criteria, making it harder for thousands of ... ...more
Labor’s proposed carbon tax, independent youth allowance, the draft Murray Darling Basin plan, food labelling and supermarkets slashing food prices dominated much of the meeting held by the Young National’s branch held last week.
The AGM was held on Friday and the branch elected its executive... ...more
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Sky News Lunchtime Agenda
15/03/2011
Presenter: Ashliegh Gillon
Senator Fiona Nash & Deborah O’Neill
Subjects: Japanese Earthquake, Nuclear Power, Carbon Tax
[E&OE]
[12:46]
Ashliegh Gillon: To our panel of politicians, joining me this afternoon from Canberra Nationals Sena... ...more
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 achievements of women.
Senato... ...more
The Coalition’s motion calling for equitable access to independent youth allowance for regional students passed the Senate today.
Only Labor Senators voted against measures that would allow young people in regional areas to access youth allowance sooner ensuring no one with ambitions for a Universi... ...more
Students in limbo after youth allowance changes defeated
Many young people will now have to wait more than twelve months or even longer before the Government gets around to addressing the inequity in the current youth allowance system.
Last week the Government announced tha... ...more
Many regional students and their families will be shocked to learn that the government's proposed changes to Independent Youth Allowance next year may not mean students in the inner regional zones will be subject to the same criteria as other regional zones.
Under questioning from Senator Nash in s... ...more
In a recent media interview Independent member for Lyne, Robert Oakeshott, responded to a question about what the independents have achieved in the first six months for regional Australia.
Mr Oakeshott was quick off the mark to respond with “We had a debate on the floor of the parliament today on y... ...more
Applications for the Rural Tertiary Hardship Fund have finally been called, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education, Senator Fiona Nash, said.
One-off $3000 grants under the fund were supposed to be paid to disadvantaged rural and regional students going onto ter... ...more