Yesterday I flew in the Rescue 500 helicopter to Thallon, south of St George.The Moonie River has spread over the area and many buildings are inundate...

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The  Balonne River at St George has peaked and today is slowly starting to fall. It will take many days though for the township to return to norm...

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I've been busy this morning helping fill sandbags, but I've managed to get some photos showing how the water has risen since yesterday. My thoughts ar...

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Because of flooding in Queensland, the Senate Inquiry Committee has announced that submissions will be accepted until 17th March.    If...

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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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  A picture paints a thousand words so a good understanding of our gross debt is seen in the graph below.  It shows clearly that the Coali...

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We don’t want the risk of Mad Cow Disease in our herds. We don’t have it, we’re healthy, we’re green and we want to stay that way and the consumers, d...

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  I know  the time frame is short , but I urge all of you who haven't yet sent in a submission for this inquiry to do so. We must sh...

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    Mr Tanner today in the chamber appears concerned that I have “been abducted by aliens”. I must say this is starting to follow a certai...

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It’s absurd but they’ve brought it back. You would think that the Labor Party had enough on their plate this week with the absolute farce, the Leyland...

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   Labor Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has shown that when it comes to decisions about expenditure of the nations funds, expenditure in t...

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  Mr Rudd appears to be excessively sensitive about the Labor Party debt. One of the reasons for his sensitivity could be the unrelenting rise i...

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It was very interesting to hear Finance Minister Tanner speak of the professionalism and competence of his Labor Finance team so I thought I would del...

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“Farmers have had enough. Enough of the restrictions on what they can do on their own land “says Senator Barnaby Joyce.Senator Joyce today said he was...

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