A new study confirming farmers would lose almost a quarter of their income under the Rudd Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme is further evidence regional Australia will pay a disproportionately high price for the plan, according to NSW Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash.
The report by the Australia... ...more
The Nationals will seek to amend legislation in the Senate in relation to the Rudd Government’s $1.8 billion 2009 Budget cuts to Youth Allowance for university students, according to the Nationals Deputy Leader in the Senate, Fiona Nash.
The Rudd Government Youth Allowance axe particularly disadvan... ...more
Rural NSW communities in the Murray Darling Basin will suffer severely as a result of the Rudd Government’s latest and largest water buyback, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
The Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate was reacting to Water Minister Penny Wong’s announcement the ... ...more
The Rudd Government has no idea of the impact of its tax increases on food exports which were exacted by forcing producers to pay the full cost of Australian Quarantine inspections from 1 July 2009, according to NSW Senator Fiona Nash.
The Nationals Deputy Leader in the Senate grilled federal burea... ...more
The North Coast has been cruelly cheated, with the Federal Government now giving up on its pre-election promise, echoed by North Coast Labor MPs Justine Elliot and Janelle Saffin, that ‘Kevin Rudd will fix our hospitals’, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
“Federal Labor Health Minister... ...more
Regional Australia has been cruelly cheated, with the Rudd government now giving up on its pre-election promise to fix public hospitals, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
“Federal Labor Health Minister Nicola Roxon claimed on Sunday there had ‘been ‘significant developments’ and ‘posit... ...more
The Rudd Government’s drastic changes to the Youth Allowance blatantly discriminate against young people from regional Australia who aspire to a university education, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
The May Budget doubled to thirty per week the number of hours young people have to wo... ...more
Families across regional New South Wales have been dudded by a Labor Budget that sucks money out of the regions towards Australia’s capital cities, according to Nationals Senator Fiona Nash.
“There is just $9.2 million extra for healthcare infrastructure in rural Australia, but Labor is spending ... ...more
A Rudd Government Minister was the subject of ridicule today when he was unable to answer three basic health policy questions from Nationals Senator Fiona Nash during Question Time.
Senator Nash said she was astonished Senator Ludwig, who represents Health Minister Nicola Roxon in the Senate seem... ...more
Regional Australia will suffer far more than the cities from savage spending cuts in next week’s federal budget, NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash has declared.
“In the past few days, almost all of the strategic leaks from the Rudd Government about Budget 09 disproportionately target Australians liv... ...more