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posted on May 09, 2012 15:42
The Federal Budget has confirmed that when Mr Swan is in need of funds to dodgy up the books, that pinching it from Regional Australia is as g...
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posted on May 04, 2012 14:02
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority must explain why they are establishing an advisory committee on social and economic issues after the Basin ...
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posted on April 30, 2012 16:11
The Coalition Dams and Water Management Task Group will visit south west Queensland this week to help develop a new dams vision and ways to mi...
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posted on April 16, 2012 14:08
New economic modelling on the Murray-Darling Basin plan shows that the government has failed to consider the economic and social impacts of its draft ...
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posted on April 12, 2012 14:07
The Coalition Dams and Water Management Task Group visited the Northern Territory this week and found that the vast economic opportunity of the north ...
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posted on April 10, 2012 14:59
Tony Burke’s call for the Coalition to decide on the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan treats the notion of consultation with contempt, ...
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posted on March 28, 2012 16:09
The Labor government has once again refused to release legal advice on the Water Act in defiance of the recommendations of a Senate inquiry.
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posted on March 22, 2012 12:48
The Australian Conservation Foundation today has put out incomplete analysis on the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan on house pri...
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posted on February 23, 2012 15:24
Even while the Labor government self-destructs via bloody, internecine warfare it continues to break promises. Today, Tony Burke, Mini...
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posted on February 22, 2012 13:58
It appears that the Greens have called for a Senate Inquiry on the Murray-Darling; the problem is, we already have one. Maybe they are...
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posted on February 14, 2012 15:18
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s approach to consultation is a rolling sham said Senators Barnaby Joyce and Bridget McKenzie today.
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posted on January 24, 2012 12:06
This is ridiculous .There are now only 12 weeks left for consultation on the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan and we still don’...
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posted on January 12, 2012 10:44
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald report today that house prices in vulnerable communities throughout the Basin have fallen by a...
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posted on December 15, 2011 12:28
The government today has announced plans for expanded irrigation in our nation's north, to irrigate the vast plains of self-cracking l...
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posted on December 09, 2011 16:55
It's the end of the week. I know it's the end of the week because we just borrowed another $2.4 billion and Friday afternoon usua...
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posted on December 01, 2011 15:40
I have just finished a three day trip through the southern Murray-Darling basin visiting Griffith, Shepparton, Rochester, Kyabram and ...
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posted on November 30, 2011 15:03
Well Tony Burke and Simon Crean are doing a job that would make the United Nations proud. They are such good negotiators.
Tony passed t...
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posted on November 29, 2011 16:47
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Murray-Darling basin results in the answer of 2750 gigalitres, and all grief can be alleviated with a co...
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posted on November 28, 2011 16:56
The cost of getting this wrong goes to every supermarket in Australia and becomes yet another chink in our food security armour....
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posted on November 24, 2011 15:12
On the eve of the Murray-Darling Basin plan it has been revealed that the biggest infrastructure program in the Basin, the northern Victoria f...
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posted on November 07, 2011 09:06
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has still not got the science right less than a month before the release of the Murray-Darling Basin draft ...
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posted on November 04, 2011 17:07
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has announced today that it will release the Draft Basin Plan on 28th November 2011.
But before then it ...
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posted on November 03, 2011 17:52
The COAG reform council has today slammed Labor's progress on delivering water saving projects in the Murray-Darling Basin.* O...
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posted on November 02, 2011 14:57
The live cattle debacle, the QANTAS fiasco and now for the final segment of Labor management, the draft of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Labo...
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posted on October 21, 2011 12:35
After the chief executive of the MDBA told Senate Estimates on Tuesday that the body had not put in place any plans to hold meetings across ba...
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posted on October 19, 2011 18:00
Senators Barnaby Joyce and Simon Birmingham have today released a petition* asking people to call on the MDBA to hold public meetings after the releas...
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posted on October 18, 2011 16:08
In Senate estimates today it was revealed that only a month before the planned release of the draft Basin Plan the government has no plans to ...
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posted on October 04, 2011 16:09
The Coalition Dams and Water Management Task Group visits southern and central Queensland from Wednesday to Friday this week. The Task...
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posted on September 14, 2011 18:06
The National Water Commission has delivered a damning indictment of the Labor government’s record on water reform. Perhaps the most da...
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posted on August 11, 2011 12:56
The Government is providing no confidence to communities of the Murray-Darling with weekly changes in the timetable for the release of...
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posted on August 03, 2011 11:38
There are reports today the Labor Government's Minster for Water, Tony Burke, has responded to criticism of the Government's decision to delay t...
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posted on August 03, 2011 10:36
Reports today suggest that the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been delayed because the "MDBA's own lawyers had forced a delay as ...
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posted on August 02, 2011 16:17
The Government has announced today another delay on the Murray-Darling Basin plan. The proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan was expected...
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posted on July 14, 2011 11:32
The great trilogy of policy disasters of the Labor party are:
- the live cattle...
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posted on June 23, 2011 19:09
Tony Windsor today claimed that “Water buybacks have been minimised by the Government” in response to the House of Representatives Reg...
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posted on June 02, 2011 15:47
The Coalition welcomes the release of the House of Representatives Inquiry into the impact of the Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan as a ...
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posted on May 27, 2011 17:18
Labor’s complete mismanagement of the Murray-Darling process has seen reform delayed another 5 years said Senator Joyce and Se...
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posted on May 18, 2011 16:54
The CEO of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Rob Freeman, confirmed today that economic, social and environmental factors are not given equal treatm...
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posted on May 12, 2011 16:52
Senator Joyce and Senator Birmingham called on the Government to refocus its efforts on the Murray-Darling following the resignation o...
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posted on May 11, 2011 14:38
Last night's budget confirms that the Government's commitment to real change in the Murray-Darling Basin is lukewarm at best said Senator Barn...
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posted on May 04, 2011 16:44
The Coalition's Dams and Water Management Task Group today completed a two-day visit to the Gulf catchment in North Queensland.
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posted on March 22, 2011 19:13
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority announced on 17 October last year that they would undertake a socio-economic study of the effects of the Ba...
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posted on March 16, 2011 12:54
Reports today suggest that Tony Windsor is now claiming that the proposed cuts in water usage in the Murray-Darling Basin is 2000 GL, ...
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posted on March 09, 2011 11:19
Mark Sullivan, the Managing Director of Actew, Canberra’s supplier of water, has said today that the Guide to the proposed Murray Darling Basin plan c...
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posted on March 09, 2011 11:17
Reports this morning suggest that Tony Burke and the new Chair of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Craig Knowles, have no confidence in the...
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posted on February 22, 2011 16:58
Questioning from Senator Joyce today at Senate Estimates displayed clearly the problems with the Water Act 2007 and Labor's approach t...
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posted on February 18, 2011 14:58
Senator Joyce welcomes the Government’s belated but necessary changes to the water buyback scheme.
“I have been raising...
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posted on February 14, 2011 17:01
Last week, the Coalition, with the support of Senator Fielding and Senator Xenophon, succeeded in establishing a Senate inquiry into the...
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posted on February 11, 2011 12:36
Tony Windsor on Sky News yesterday evening made claims that there were no provisions in the Water Act to compulsorily acquire water from irrig...
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posted on February 10, 2011 15:52
In response to a question in the House of Representatives this afternoon, Minister Burke claimed that if the Government did not buy enough wat...
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posted on February 10, 2011 12:37
Senator Barnaby Joyce welcomes the House of Representatives Committee on the Murray-Darling Basin’s adoption of the Coalition’s water ...
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posted on February 09, 2011 17:28
Senator Joyce and the Coalition, with the support of Senator Fielding and Senator Xenophon, succeeded in establishing a Senate inq...
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posted on February 09, 2011 17:25
posted on February 07, 2011 10:30
Minister Burke needs to explain inconsistencies between his comments to the media and the advice given to him by the Australian Government Sol...
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posted on January 31, 2011 12:20
Reports in The Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend indicate that Minister Burke is purging the Department of Sustainability, Environme...
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posted on January 28, 2011 13:52
Water Minister Tony Burke’s appointment of former NSW Labor Minister Craig Knowles as the new MDBA Chair is deeply concerning.
Minister Burke served ...
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posted on January 27, 2011 13:52
The Australian today reports on the real world economic effect of the Labor Government’s botched plan for the Murray-Darling Basin.
Sales da...
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posted on January 18, 2011 15:25
The Labor Party in South Australia has now self promoted themselves to a state of omnipotence. It had to happen, they are now ...
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posted on January 18, 2011 10:47
Senator Bob Brown’s, Leader of the Greens’ statement that the recent floods were caused by, and should be paid by, the coal in...
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posted on December 29, 2010 13:30
Senator Joyce returned from his Christmas break yesterday to assist in any way he can with the floods in his state of Queensland.
Se...
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posted on December 23, 2010 13:38
The Coalition took to the last election a very specific strategy on the construction of dams. The first part was $500 million to be used as se...
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posted on December 14, 2010 17:38
Reports today that bureaucratic bungles may have exacerbated the recent flood damage in New South Wales are another sign of Labor's in...
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posted on December 13, 2010 12:47
Reports today indicate that it could cost the government an additional $5 billion to buy the water rights outlined in the Guide to the Murray-...
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posted on December 09, 2010 11:47
The Labor party is increasingly isolated and discredited on the Water Act, said Senator Barnaby Joyce today.
"Today's editorial in the ...
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posted on December 09, 2010 10:08
I note with interest Minister Crean’s comments today to the good people of Narrabri on the resignation of Mike Taylor, Chairman of the Murray-Darling ...
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posted on December 08, 2010 10:13
Every time the Labor party stuffs up it seems to rain, and I'm looking out the window at record floods.
Every time they stuff up the Murr...
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posted on December 07, 2010 12:16
Mike Taylor’s resignation today is a clear sign that Labor’s Murray Darling Basin process is hurtling towards a train crash.
The Coalition m...
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posted on November 29, 2010 14:52
Senator Joyce, shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water, said today that he supports calls for more resources to b...
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posted on November 19, 2010 09:34
“Labor is still all at sea on the Murray-Darling Basin” Senator Barnaby Joyce, Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Governm...
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posted on November 10, 2010 10:02
“The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) released yesterday shows the Labor party still does not get it on the Murray-Darling Basin,” Senator...
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posted on November 08, 2010 09:53
Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister for only 100 days more than it has taken Labor to undertake due diligence on the Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Pr...
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posted on October 28, 2010 12:25
Senator Joyce today moved a motion on the Water Act 2007 to dispel the confusion held in the Murray Darling Basin on whether it can deliver a ...
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posted on October 26, 2010 16:59
Yesterday Mr Burke released legal advice which he said interpreted the Water Act 2007 as broad enough to accommodate economic, social and environmenta...
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posted on October 25, 2010 18:10
The Labor government has managed to unite regional Australia, but perhaps not in the touchy- feely way that they wanted to achieve with their promises...
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posted on October 20, 2010 14:53
The Guide to the Murray Darling Basin plan is concerning many people in the Basin. Communities are facing an uncertain time for the next 15 mo...
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posted on October 14, 2010 14:04
“I am over in Rome at the moment, praying for a miracle to save regional Australia from Labor’s plan to pull the rug out from whole communitie...
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posted on October 08, 2010 17:47
Communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been suffering throughout years of drought, while this iconic river system has suffered through n...
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posted on October 07, 2010 17:00
The Guide to the Draft Murray Darling Basin Plan is to be released tomorrow, but media leaks have suggested that there will be substan...
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posted on September 22, 2010 08:30
Senator Joyce, Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water, notes the comments made by the new Minister for Water, To...
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posted on September 01, 2010 12:20
Senator Barnaby Joyce has once again called for Water Minister, Senator Penny Wong, to release the guide to the Murray Darling Basin Plan imme...
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posted on August 16, 2010 15:56
The Labor broadband plan could have been authored by a poor pretender to Hans Christian Anderson. Australia would have to believe in fairy tales to be...
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posted on August 13, 2010 16:17
Only a day after being caught out misleading the public on the amount of water that has been returned to the Murray, Senator Penny Wong has again been...
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posted on August 12, 2010 16:36
Water Minister Penny Wong must come clean and declare whether or not she has been briefed on the contents of the Murray Darling Basin report that’s be...
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posted on August 11, 2010 14:48
The Nationals in Government will put an end to Labor’s delays and blatant politicking and deliver certainty for irrigators, communities and th...
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posted on July 20, 2010 16:21
Labor has once again failed to deliver on Murray Darling Basin reform, with delays to the release of the proposed Basin Plan creating yet more uncerta...
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posted on May 21, 2010 09:25
Senator Joyce continues his tour through the Riverina today in Echuca and Shepparton, having visited the Lower Lakes, Berri, Renmark, Mildura, Dirranb...
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posted on April 28, 2010 14:05
Senator Barnaby Joyce said today that Senator Wong was misrepresenting the contents of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (A...
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posted on April 22, 2010 14:33
Shadow Minister for Regional Development Infrastructure and Water Barnaby Joyce, Member for Mallee John Forrest and South Australian Senator Simon Bir...
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posted on April 20, 2010 09:26
Senator Barnaby Joyce is today on his way from St George to Adelaide as part of his role as Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Infrastr...
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posted on April 01, 2010 10:42
Senator Joyce said the initial view of the Productivity Commission Report into water recovery in the Murray Darling Basin is a fairly damning indictme...
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posted on March 06, 2010 09:38
The flooding over Southern Queensland is said to cover an area larger than Victoria. It is amazing to think that a couple months ago this area was so ...
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posted on September 11, 2008 00:00
“The water debate has now advanced to the purchase of water licences of property to be “returned” to national parks. Well stand by Adelaide for the re...
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posted on November 02, 2007 00:00
“There has arrived a sequel to Traveston Dam that verges on pathos. Chapter 1: Ms Bligh’s best defence of this profligate waste of money and foreshado...
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posted on August 08, 2007 00:00
The Nationals’ Senator for Queensland, Senator Barnaby Joyce, has welcomed Deputy Anna Bligh’s reconsideration of the decision regarding the proposed ...
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posted on May 11, 2007 00:00
The French company that will manage the Beattie Government's Western Corridor recycled water project has serious doubts about drinking water recycled ...
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posted on May 11, 2007 00:00
The Queensland Government's environmental application for approval of the Traveston Dam will only allow it to be half filled, according to evidence he...
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posted on February 19, 2007 00:00
Senator Barnaby Joyce said today he has always been a supporter of the Bradfield Scheme for the inland diversion of water.
“Other Bradfield ideas,...
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posted on February 13, 2007 00:00
Unfortunately I have to reply to yet another media volley from Deputy Premier Anna Bligh as she and Mr Beattie try to avoid public scrutiny of the spe...
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posted on February 07, 2007 00:00
After lots of hard work, Senator Barnaby Joyce welcomes his colleague Senator Boswell’s call for a Senate Inquiry into the future water supply for Sou...
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posted on January 09, 2007 00:00
A Senate Inquiry into the flawed Traveston Dam will make no difference to whether or not South East Queensland runs out of water.
Queensland Nation...
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posted on November 30, 2006 00:00
Today’s news that the Traveston Dam will be subjected to assessment under Commonwealth environment law has been welcomed by Queensland Nationals Senat...
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posted on November 29, 2006 00:00
Queensland Senator Barnaby Joyce read, with great interest, comments made in Parliament yesterday by Deputy Queensland Premier Anna Bligh in relation ...
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posted on October 03, 2006 00:00
CHAIR—We welcome you to this inquiry.
Senator RONALDSON—You have been here all day, so you will know this backwards.
CHAIR—As you have heard sev...
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posted on September 15, 2006 00:00
As the water crisis continues to deepen, Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has called for the redevelopment of the Menindee Storage System, n...
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posted on June 05, 2006 00:00
Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has grave concerns regarding water rights and the management of our nation’s water infrastructure following...
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posted on June 02, 2006 00:00
Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has, this morning, warmly welcomed the Australian Government’s decision not to sell its share of the Snowy ...
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posted on December 28, 2005 00:00
Senator Barnaby Joyce recently visited Rockhampton, Yeppoon and the Capricorn Coast region to gain a better understanding of the future developmental ...
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