ACHIEVEMENTS
12/05/10: Presented the Coalitions amendments to the Trade Practices Bill
The bill: amends eight Acts in relation to: approved superannuation clearing houses; forestry managed investment schemes; managed investment trusts; eligibility criteria for the entrepreneurs’ tax offset; and the corporate consolidation regime; and amends 13 Acts to make miscellaneous and technical amendments
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05/05/10: Announced that the report from the Senate Inquiry - Native Vegetation Laws, Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Climate Change Measures, had been released and vindicated the stand by many farmers
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28/04/10: After months of campaigning against the ETS, Kevin Rudd announces ''the great moral and economic challenge of our time'' the ETS, will be put off to after the election
25/03/10: Appointed Shadow Minister of Regional Development, Infrastructure and Water
15/03/10: Parliament overwhelmingly endorsed the Food Importation (Bovine Meat Standards) Bill. Bill was introduced with Senator Colbeck. This legislation will ensure that meat from countries with Mad Cow Disease (BSE) will undergo the same rigorous standards as Australian beef
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23/02/2010: Voted in Senate again to defeat ETS
04/02/10 Raised Senate Inquiry into Native Vegetation Laws, Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Climate Change Measures
08/12/09 Appointed Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt reduction
3/12/09: Voted in Senate again to defeat ETS
23/11/09: Presented Coalitions Amendments to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 to require Food Standards Australia New Zealand to develop and approve labelling standards to be used by food producers, manufacturers and distributors of food containing palm oil
09/11/09: Launched website petition to stop the ETS
21/10/09 Raised question in the Senate estimates hearing to CSIRO “Will the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme change the temperature of the globe?”
10/09/09: Moved an amendment to the Tax laws Amendment (2009 measures no.4) Bill 2009 that would have removed the tax deductibility for carbon sinks from the income Tax Assessment Act 1997
4/12/08: Crossed the floor to protect the Communications Fund, set aside to secure communication services for rural Australia
28/09/08: Parliamentary Delegation to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
24/09/08: Notice of Motion raised which called for the Government to amend the Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines in relation to the establishment of tress for the purposes of carbon sequestration.
17/09/08: Leader of the Nationals in the Senate
3/09/08: Notice of Motion raised which called for the recognition of the contribution made by those Irish settlers and their descendants to Australian society
28/08/08: Notice of Motion raised by Senator Barnaby Joyce and Senator the Hon Ian Macdonald which called for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, to accede to the Emergency Listing Request made by the interest group PADYC for the Cairns Yacht Club under the National Heritage guidelines.
28/07/08: Liberal National Party (LNP) of Queensland rolled out
26/06/08: Temporary Chair of Committees (Finished 18.9.08)
11/03/08: Support demonstrated for Senator Lyn Allison’s Notice of Motion regarding the sexualisation of children in the media
22/10/07: National Party - $700 million dollars pledged to complete the second Toowoomba range crossing
11/9/07: TPA - The passage of the ‘Birdsville Amendment’ to outlaw predatory pricing under the Trade Practices Act
4/9/07: QANTAS to change its flight path and cease flying its planes over the Esplanade in Cairns from Monday 10 September 2007
18/7/07: Cairns – Opened Electorate Office in Cairns
23/5/07: Single Desk maintained
9/5/07: Health – $22 million in funding for Griffith Uni’s adult stem cell research
9/5/07: Roads – $220 million to accelerate works to improve safety of the Bruce Highway between Townsville and Cairns, and $48 million for the Tully Flood Works Project
4/4/07: Media laws – a company can only own 2 of the 3 regulated platforms (radio, TV and newspaper)
2/3/07: Regional Partnerships - $210 000 for expansion of a Yeppoon Kindergarten
7/2/07: Traveston Dam – Senate inquiry into SEQ Water Supplies
8/11/06: Drought relief - $210 million in drought relief for small business
19/10/06: Medibank Private – 15% cap on individual share ownership of Medibank Private from 2008 – 2013
19/9/06: Agriculture – Introduction of a Mandatory Code of Conduct for the Horticulture Industry
26/6/06: Regional Partnership - $220 000 to establish a multi-purpose community complex in Clermont
8/6/07: Telstra – Telstra tightens universal service agreement on payphones, an issue raised when Telstra sale went through
1/6/06: Fuel – new diesel fuel rebate scheme
15/9/05: Telstra - $3 Billion ($1 billion for broadband) for new regional and rural telecommunication infrastructure
13/10/05: TPA – Crossed the floor and blocked schedule 1 of the amendment. A decision vindicated when the ACCC blocked Toll’s takeover of Patrick because this merger would have lessened competition.