Next week’s federal budget is Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s last chance to keep his promise to fix regional hospitals, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. “Several NSW regional Labor MPs, including Janelle Saffin (Page), Mike Kelly (Eden-Monaro) and Justine Elliot (Richmond), were elected ... ...more

Official new research shows regional Australian communities will be the hardest hit by the Rudd Government’s latest, hastily cobbled together emissions trading scheme, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. The government-owned Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation has just ... ...more

The announcement by Telstra of an immediate and significant upgrade to broadband and mobile phone services in regional New South Wales has been welcomed by NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. Telstra Countrywide’s Executive Director for NSW, Brett Riley, has announced 88 new exchanges and 17 new mobi... ...more

North Coast families should be deeply concerned at the Rudd Government’s refusal to rule out cutting incentive payments for doctors practising in regional Australia, according to Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. “If these cuts go ahead in next month’s Budget, it will widen the city-country health gap ... ...more

Regional communities should be deeply concerned at the Rudd Government’s refusal to rule out cutting incentive payments for doctors practising in regional Australia, according to Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. “Country communities are already strapped with poorer health services than metropolitan ar... ...more

The Federal Government must commit to rolling out it’s new national broadband infrastructure network in rural and regional Australia first, according to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. “The Nationals have long recognised the need for faster broadband in the regions. Labor’s plan is alarmingly s... ...more

The National Broadband Network is truly the Nationals’ Broadband Network as it has been lifted straight from the 2005 Page Research Centre’s position paper into telecommunications chaired by then Senator-elect Fiona Nash, Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, said today. ... ...more

NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash wants an Aussie farmer-friendly stimulus package after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd heaped praise on a Chinese stimulus package that principally focused on agriculture. “As the Rudd Government develops its third stimulus package ahead of next month’s Budget, it is time... ...more

NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash has congratulated the Victorian Nationals grassroots members on preselecting university lecturer Bridget McKenzie as their candidate for the Senate at the next federal election due in 2010. “I know Bridget well. She has long been a great fighter for regional comm... ...more

A decision by the Rudd Government to massively increase the tax on food exports will put hundreds of North Coast jobs under severe threat, according to North Coast Nationals Senator Fiona Nash. The Rudd Government had decided that from 1 July 2009, food exporters will have to pay the full cost of A... ...more