Coalition Senators will move amendments in the Senate to ensure that rural and regional students are not penalised by the Labor Government’s proposed changes to the Independent Youth Allowance. Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and chair of the Rural and Regional and T... ...more
The announcement by Climate Change Minister Penny Wong that the Labor Government will exempt agriculture from an emissions cap in the Emissions Trading Scheme is hardly worth getting excited about as it is nothing new.
Senator Fiona Nash, Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and Sen... ...more
The Productivity Commission has admitted that the timing of its inquiry into Wheat Exporting Marketing Arrangements is “inopportune” for wheat growers.
Senator Fiona Nash, the Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, said the Commission has called for submissions to be lodged by Friday, Novemb... ...more
The Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, Senator Barnaby Joyce, has launched an online petition to stop the Emissions Trading Scheme which is the centrepiece of the Labor Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
“The Nationals voted against the CPRS in August and intend to stop this insidi... ...more
The Senate is due to debate the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bills in the last sitting session of the year, which starts on November 16. It is not too late to stop the ETS and there is a petition on Senator Barnaby Joyce's website which reads
To the Honourable President and members of th... ...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
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 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
The Labor Government’s lack of understanding of the impact of changes to the independent Youth Allowance were apparent during today’s Senate Inquiry into the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009.
Senator Fiona Nash is chair of the Rural and Region... ...more