Coalition acts to protect Communications Fund
25th November, 2008
Rudd Labor must end its war on rural and regional Australia and guarantee the future of the $2.4 billion Communications Fund.
The Fund was created by the previous Coalition Government to guarantee country Australians access to new ... more »
One year of Rudd Labor and Australia is worse off
23rd November, 2008
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the election of the Rudd Labor Government, and there can be few if any Australians who would claim to be better off after 12 months of reviews, symbolism and empty headlines, ... more »
Congestion charges “a welcome step” say Federal Labor
13th November, 2008
Federal Labor has today given unqualified backing to the New South Wales Government’s economically damaging decision this week to introduce congestion charges in Sydney.
The Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Stephen Conroy, ... more »
Swan confirms road and rail spending to be cut
5th November, 2008
Road and rail spending under the Rudd Government will fall well below what the Coalition committed in government, revised Budget estimates released today have confirmed.
“For all of Labor’s grand talk of ‘nation building’ and ... more »
Labor’s broadband leaves regional Australia unconnected
5th November, 2008
Labor’s ill-considered National Broadband Network election promise is in ruins and people living in regional Australia are unlikely to see higher speed broadband for many years, Leader of The Nationals, Warren Truss, said today.
Mr ... more »
Regional development to suffer as Labor builds bureaucracy
5th November, 2008
Local community groups and businesses will be disadvantaged if recommendations made by the Parliamentary Committee into the Government’s proposed regional development program are adopted, Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Minister for Regional Development Warren ... more »
Treasury states the obvious on emissions trading: Australia cannot go it alone
30th October, 2008
Treasury modelling released today on an Australian emissions trading scheme shows it will reduce economic growth, drive up inflation and hit everybody’s wallet - yet do nothing to reduce global warming.
The Leader of The ... more »
Coalition to stop Labor’s tax grab on truck fuel
21st October, 2008
The Coalition will move to prevent the Rudd Labor Government from slugging the trucking and bus industries with an automatic fuel tax rise every year, the Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Transport Minister, Warren Truss, ... more »
Labor’s diversions on transport funding continue
21st October, 2008
According to a parliamentary question list provided by accident to the media today, Labor planned to attack the former Coalition government in Parliament over alleged “pork barrelling on roads”.
“Labor obviously decided the Infrastructure Minister’s ... more »
Labor’s infrastructure program unfunded by almost $15 billion
20th October, 2008
The Rudd Government does not have almost $15 billion of the cash it promised for the three infrastructure funds it said just a fortnight ago were necessary to insulate Australia from economic slowdown.
“The Prime Minister said ... more »
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