NEWS
Petition: Keep Albury’s official Australia Day events on 26 Jan
With little consultation, Albury City Council plans to move its 2024 Australia Day awards and citizenship ceremonies away from 26 January - a move only made public through their subscription newsletter. Regardless of my views, I believe this decision should only have...
2023 Christmas Card Competition
Congratulations to my Christmas Card Competition winner for 2023 - Kiana Moss from Griffith - a year three student at St Mary's Yoogali. This year, we received around 60 entries from right across the electorate; including a 'Santa rodeo', a dressed up Jersey, even a...
Is Australia now ‘the hungry country’?
3.7 million Australian households are going hungry or on the edge of falling into hunger. We are bombarded by statistic after statistic, but this one from Foodbank Australia’s 2023 Hunger Report hits like a truck. Just weeks away from Christmas, 77 per cent of...
Equality push continues
The Coalition recognises the fundamental importance of supporting Australian women to realise their full potential. We will consider the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce report thoroughly, reflecting the respect we have for the work that has been conducted. Many...
Fund appointments under question
Just days after it was revealed Trade Minister, Don Farrell, handpicked an unqualified former Labor Senator over an experienced senior woman for a key overseas appointment, Labor have continued to stack the $15 billion taxpayer-funded National Reconstruction Fund...
Parliament – Water Amendment Bill (2023)
Ms LEY (Farrer—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (18:07) It's really important that I speak for the second time on this bill. My first remarks were in a five-minute statement, but today the bill itself is before the House. As I've listened to Labor members talk about...
Skills freefall under Labor
The number of Australians taking up skills training is in free fall under the Albanese Government. The latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) confirms today that over its first year of government Labor have presided over a 37.4...
Opinion: Coming together after the referendum
The Voice has failed, and Anthony Albanese has said he is responsible for its failure. Those were his words. And yet, he has not apologised for his failure. Instead of accepting blame, his response amounts to nothing more than ‘well, we tried’. He had the chutzpah to...
What Skills Fund?
It has been revealed that the Albanese Government is secretly reaping hundreds of millions of dollars from tens of thousands of Australian businesses through a compulsory tax, the ‘Skilling Australians Fund’ levy, which should be being allocated to specific skills...
Parliament – Water buyback pain unnecessary
Ms LEY (Farrer—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (16:39): Over my time in this place, I've been proud to rise and speak on behalf of my farming and irrigation communities many, many times. These are good and decent people, and they have several priorities in their...
