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Cattlemen drive issues to Canberra
04 Mar 10 | NORTHERN Territory cattlemen rode into Canberra last week with a simple message for the Federal Government - that lack of investment in NT roads and infrastructure is crippling one of Australia's most important export industries.  | Katter gets booted from parliament | North West communities cut off ...
Katter gets booted from parliament
26 Feb 10 | FEDERAL member for Kennedy Bob Katter was expelled from Parliament yesterday for consistently interjecting while Trade Minister Simon Crean was discussing beef imports.  | CommentsComments (1) | Add your name to Ausbuy's ... | Open season on state's crustaceans
Add your name to Ausbuy's anti-BSE import petition
25 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIAN-owned advocacy group Ausbuy is calling on members of the public to sign a petition requesting the proposed changes to beef import laws be withdrawn.  | CommentsComments (1)
LNP backs Abbott's bid to overturn Wild Rivers
20 Feb 10 | THE State Opposition has welcomed Tony Abbott's draft laws in Federal Parliament to overthrow Bligh Labor's Wild Rivers Act.  | Abbott vows to overturn Wild ... | Qld Govt slams Abbott Wild ...
Conroy takes fibre optic circuit break in Qld ouback
19 Feb 10 | THE first steps in Australia's national broadband system were taken in the north Queensland mining town of Mt Isa yesterday when Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy inspected initial fieldwork.   | Growcom wants detail on ... | Deluge continues across state
16 Feb 10 | THE Liberal National Party backbencher who sparked a mini-rebellion in opposition ranks two weeks ago says his party could learn a lot from Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman.
15 Feb 10 | TONY Abbott has pre-empted Kevin Rudd's long-awaited hospitals policy by pledging the Coalition would impose local boards on public hospitals in NSW and Queensland, the states where the systems are in the worst shape.
10 Feb 10 | The Federal Opposition has accused Agriculture Minister Tony Burke of stalling on a promised inquiry into the governance of agriculture's research and development corporations.
03 Feb 10 | QUEENSLAND Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek is confident he will lead the LNP to the next state election, despite a failed leadership coup against his deputy Lawrence Springborg.   | It's not about me: LNP dissident | Clive Palmer's cash saves the ...
Springborg defeats rookie MP
02 Feb 10 | DEPUTY Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg has retained his position, despite an attempt by a rookie backbencher to unseat him.   | Maverick MP set to take on the ... | It's not about me: LNP dissident
02 Feb 10 | THE vociferously anti-socialist but pro-Chinese Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer bankrolled the conservative side of politics handsomely after the demise of the Howard government crimped Liberal Party fund-raising efforts.
It's not about me: LNP dissident
02 Feb 10 | MAVERICK Liberal National Party backbencher Aidan McLindon has urged other ambitious colleagues to put their names forward for the deputy leadership today.   | Maverick MP set to take on the ...
Maverick MP set to take on the Borg
01 Feb 10 | The maverick Liberal National Party backbencher who last week declared the conservatives unelectable has today announced a challenge against deputy leader Lawrence Springborg.
30 Jan 10 | A NEWLY declared moratorium on water licence applications and construction works including the sinking of irrigation bores in the Wet Tropics has put Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Trade Minister Stephen Robertson back in the political hot seat.  | Peter Murray: Quiet achiever ... | Ravensdown adds soil testing ...
Rudd targets Qld to secure second term
20 Jan 10 | LABOR Party strategists are counting on picking up at least five seats in the Prime Minister's home state of Queensland at the federal election to cement the Rudd Government's dominance going into a second term.  | CommentsComments (1) | Funding for NQ tourist facilities | Mackay charity queen takes ...
CSR knocks back Bright offer
15 Jan 10 | BRIGHT Food Group's move to buy CSR's sugar and renewable energy unit for up to $1.5 billion has been knocked back by the iconic Australian company.  | CSR faces pressure from China ... | Bright urged to make firm CSR bid
Abbott and Joyce at odds on China's interest in CSR
14 Jan 10 | TONY ABBOTT and Barnaby Joyce might be in fierce agreement on the futility of an emissions trading system, but they are not finding it so easy to present a single message on other issues.   | Bright move for CSR sugar | CSR faces pressure from China ...
Abbott vows to overturn Wild Rivers
12 Jan 10 | FEDERAL Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will introduce a private member’s bill to Federal Parliament next month to overturn Queensland's controversial Wild Rivers law, which prevents development along rivers in far north Queensland and Cape York.
Nats call for mass cull of dirty camels
29 Dec 09 | THE federal opposition is considering declaring a war on camels as part of its climate change policy, arguing that the desert pest is responsible for more emissions than the exhaust of 300,000 cars.  | Encouraging future primary ... | Signs of the times in modern ...
Kevin Rudd: All talk and no action
29 Dec 09 | KEVIN Rudd has flown back to Australia after a gruelling few days in Copenhagen having just agreed with other world leaders to do, well … not that much on climate change.
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