Dear Editor,
I write in response to the Independent Member for New England, Tony Windsor, taking credit for the government’s decision to finally fix independent youth allowance.
Mr Windsor may claim to have represented the concerns of regional students in his electorate struggling to access the al... ...more
Dear Editor,
I write in reply to the letter `A grade for MP for Youth Allowance’ that ran in your paper on Wednesday 21 September 2011, regarding the Independent Member for Lyne’s action on independent youth allowance.
Mr Oakeshott may claim to have represented the concerns of regional students in... ...more
Dear Editor,
I write in response to the Labor Member for Page, Janelle Saffin, taking credit for the government’s decision to finally fix independent youth allowance.
Ms Saffin may claim to have represented the concerns of regional students in her electorate struggling to access the allowance unde... ...more
After more than two years of lobbying by students, parents, education stakeholders, communities and the Coalition, the Gillard government today finally introduced legislative changes to make independent youth allowance fair for inner regional students.
“The government last week, at long last,... ...more
The Coalition’s Regional Education spokesperson, Senator Fiona Nash, said she’s concerned regional students are being misled about the youth allowance changes announced by the Gillard government last week.
The government finally saw sense and back-flipped on its 30 h... ...more
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Regional Australians have only three more days to have their say on the Gillard government’s proposed carbon tax, through making submissions to a shotgun parliamentary inquiry, the Nationals Senator for NSW, Fiona Nash, said.
The Labor-Greens dominated inquiry resolved late last week to give Aus... ...more
Parents are struggling to pay school fees or to home tutor their young children because of the financial impact still being felt from the Gillard government’s suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia, the Coalition’s Regional Education spokesperson, Senator Fiona Nash, said.
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The Federal Labor Member for Page should cross the floor when parliament votes on the Gillard government’s Malaysia off-shore asylum seeker processing plan if she’s genuinely opposed to it.
The MP told the Northern Star newspaper that asylum seekers should be processed on-shore which was the Labor... ...more
In an astounding display of hypocrisy, the Independent Member for Lyne, Rob Oakeshott, is claiming credit for the Gillard government’s announcement that it will FINALLY fix independent youth allowance.
“This is the MP, along with fellow regional Independent Tony Windsor, who months ago voted agains... ...more