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 | Thu, 21st August 2008Brendan Nelson: Address to the Menzies Research Centre Federalism Conference - Facing future challenges: The future of our Federation and GovernanceToday, I will pull no punches in discussing a very significant problem and that is, over the past decade, the state governments have absolved themselves of responsibility. In response, the Federal Government has taken more of it. Furthermore, we are shifting from what Mr Rudd refers to as the 'blame game', to that over which he now presides - friendly failure. |
 | Thu, 21st August 2008BCA report highlights risk of rushing an Emissions Trading SchemeAbetz - of the 14 businesses studied in the paper, three will shut, four will lose up to half their earning and the remainder will have to drastically reduce costs - to say nothing of the potential loss in investments. |
 | Thu, 21st August 2008WA Labor puts Rudd ahead of Western AustraliaAlan Carpenter has put the interests of the Labor Party ahead of the interests of Western Australia with his attack on Woodside's comments that Kevin Rudd's new $2.5 billion tax on the North-West Shelf may push up domestic gas prices. |
 | Thu, 21st August 2008More Job losses under LaborToday's announcement that 160 permanent jobs will be lost from next year at Cadbury's Claremont factory in Tasmania is a further indication that Labor is on track to meet Reserve Bank predictions of 100,000 job losses in the next 12 months. |
 | Thu, 21st August 2008Dutton Interview with Lyndel Curtis (ABC's PM Programme, 18 August) - FuelWatchTreasurer Wayne Swan said yesterday people could save $10 or so a tank under FuelWatch but the Opposition is challenging the Treasurer to provide evidence to back the claim. |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008Malcolm Turnbull: Address to the Association of Financial Advisers - Tax ReformOur tax system is both fairer and more efficient than it was in 1996, but there is much more to be done. The Coalition wants to reduce the burden of taxation, and replace inefficient taxes with efficient taxes. That is why we commissioned Professor Henry Ergas to undertake a study of Australia’s taxes at all levels of Government. I would encourage the AFA to make a submission to this review. |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008Joe Hockey: Address to the Australian Health Congress - WELLNESS: A Positive Direction in HealthIn May this year the Australian Institute of Health and Wellness released its biennial snapshot of Australian health. It is a positive and optimistic document and defies the headlines you see in the newspapers daily. Watch the news and you could be forgiven for believing we’re all about to keel over from cancer or heart disease. |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008Conroy wins gold for Wimax back-flipThe enthusiastic embrace by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy of the innovative wireless broadband network on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula would win him an Olympic gold medal for biggest back-flip. |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008Minchin deplores French casualties in AfghanistanThe Opposition deplored the serious casualties suffered by French forces in Afghanistan yesterday, but the fight against Islamic extremism must continue, the Shadow Minister for Defence, Senator Nick Minchin said today. |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008Gloomy words to take a nation down (Opinion Piece for the Sydney Morning Herald)Back in January it was obvious the global credit crisis posed real threats to our economy. A credit crisis is a crisis of confidence. Interest rates are higher because investors are less certain about the prospects and security of those to whom they are lending. In response, our Government should have pursued at least two clear economic objectives... |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008More contradictions from Labor on UraniumThe Rudd Labor Government has today been caught out with its claim that Australia only exports uranium to those countries that need to use nuclear energy because of a shortage in their own energy resources, Shadow Minister for Trade Ian Macfarlane and Shadow Minister for Resources and Energy Senator David Johnston said. |
 | Wed, 20th August 2008Aussie lands top international postSenator Cory Bernardi, Coalition spokesperson for disability services, today extended congratulations on behalf of all Coalition Members and Senators to Victorian Maryanne Diamond, who was elected President of the World Blind Union. |
 | Tue, 19th August 2008Nelson - opening remarks at the Alcohol Forum (Canberra)My natural disposition, as is ours as an Opposition, as the Liberal and National parties, is to reasonably support anything that we think is going to reduce the human and social harm associated with the use of drugs and certainly the abuse of alcohol. But having examined the evidence which led to this particular Budget initiative we have made a decision that we will not be supporting it - the excise increase that will raise around $3 billion over the next five years. |
 | Tue, 19th August 2008Minchin commends Australian Special Forces"With IEDs and suicide bombers being such a major threat in Afghanistan, the killing of Mullah Akhtar Mohammed makes Oruzgan a safer place for both Australian troops and the civilian population," Senator Minchin said. |
 | Tue, 19th August 2008Labor continues to meddle with welfare to workAfter relaxing several of the successful reforms implemented under the Coalition, including the scrapping of face to face interviews between Centrelink and job seekers, a Rudd Government commissioned Participation Taskforce Report suggests that Labor has now decided to get tough with seniors. |
 | Tue, 19th August 2008Hunt Doorstop - Adelaide Airport (15 August) - Government inaction on the Murray Lower Lakes, Wellington Weir works, possible breach of the EPBCWe need a package for the environment and what is missing is money to bring forward water savings for farmers and for irrigators which they can share with the environment. Money for pipes. Money for covering channels. Money for lining dams. That money is in the system but it hasn’t been allocated. The farmers are missing out. The environment is missing out and the lakes are missing out. So bring forward the money for fixing up farm irrigation. That’s the missing part of the package. |
 | Tue, 19th August 2008Hunt interview with David Bevan (ABC Radio, Adelaide, 15 August) - Government inaction on the Murray Lower Lakes...we will fight to keep these lakes alive, to keep them as one of the great international wetlands. I think that sense of leadership is missing and I know that people in the lakes area want a simple statement: We will fight to everything to keep the lakes alive. |
| Mon, 18th August 2008Julie Bishop Fairfax Blog - WA early election and fixed termsIn one of the more cynical acts in Australian political history, Premier Alan Carpenter called the election six months early in an attempt to hold the vote before the public release of findings of an investigation by the WA Corruption and Crime Commission into the conduct of Labor Ministers, particularly their involvement with Brian Burke. |
 | Mon, 18th August 2008Kevin's computer con: no computers until next yearStudents will be waiting for their promised laptops until well into next year while the states and Commonwealth squabble over who should pay for all the additional costs to make them work. |
 | Mon, 18th August 2008FuelWatch: Swan's latest deceptionMr Swan’s claims that FuelWatch will save motorists $10 a tank is another part of the Government’s deception. If Mr Swan believes that FuelWatch will save motorists this much, he should show us the evidence. |
