‘Once-great’ Labor Party has ‘abandoned’ Australia’s working class24/05/2021|7min
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie says the “once-great” Labor Party has “abandoned” Australia’s working class.
Her comments come after the Nationals won the Upper Hunter by-election – which saw state Labor leader Jodi McKay concede a “terrible” loss.
“The National Party is unambiguous about our support for local jobs in regional communities, such as the Upper Hunter,” Ms McKenzie told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“In places like the Upper Hunter that means backing the mining industry very, very strongly – which we do.
“Given that we back them, they’ve backed us, and we take that privilege very, very seriously.”
A Victorian logging company just won a controversial court appeal Here s what it means for forest wildlife nationofchange.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationofchange.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Australia’s forest-dwelling wildlife is in greater peril after last week’s court ruling that logging even if it breaches state requirements is exempt from the federal law that protects threatened species.
The Federal Court upheld an appeal by VicForests, Victoria’s state timber corporation, after a previous ruling in May 2020 found it razed critical habitat without taking the precautionary measures required by law.
The ruling means logging is set to resume, despite the threats it poses to wildlife. At particular risk are the Leadbeater’s possum and greater glider mammals highly vulnerable to extinction that call the forests home.
Nuclear energy is ‘cheap, reliable, and low on emissions’: Bridget McKenzie 06/05/2021|9min
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie says nuclear energy is cheap, reliable, low on emissions, and “we are just kidding ourselves” if we compete on the international stage without it.
“We have the resource in our own back yard,” she said.
Australia holds 40 per cent of the world’s uranium reserves, yet does not produce nuclear energy.
Nationals Senators earlier this year drafted legislation which would allow the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in nuclear power.
Ms McKenzie told Sky News host Alan Jones “we’re still waiting” for Energy Minister Angus Taylor to put the legislation through parliament and spark debate on the issue.
April 29th, 2021 By David Knox 1 commentFiled under: Coronavirus, Programming,
As India’s Covid-19 outbreak spirals out of control, Australia has announced it will suspend all passenger flights between the two countries until mid-May to reduce the risk of spreading the disease. Tonight
Q+A asks does this mean for Australians stuck in India?
We’ll also look at why mass vaccination centres in Australia are operating at a fraction of capacity and ask what the government needs to do to restore faith in its vaccination rollout?
The war of words over the country’s hotel quarantine system is raging on, with some calling the system “faulty” and not fit for purpose. What is the future for Australia’s hotel quarantine system?