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November 11, 2025

Not a constitutional crisis

On the fiftieth anniversary, sadly the Prime Minister turned Remembrance Day 2025 into a political slanging match. Albanese said on Tuesday ‘The Dismissal’ was “not a constitutional crisis, it was a partisan political ambush”.

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November 6, 2025

Plan for a cheaper, fairer, better energy policy

We have provided national leadership calling out that Labor will not reach their 2030, 2035 or even ‘net zero’ 2050 emissions reductions targets.

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October 30, 2025

Unattainable emissions targets

The Albanese Labor Government's appetite for raiding regional Australia for inner city votes knows no end.

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October 27, 2025

100km/h to 70 km/h

Fortunately, out in regional Australia, The Nationals were vigilant, we listen to locals and we know what terrible roads we drive on.

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October 22, 2025

3G shutdown was a disaster

The Senate committee report recommended that Government help customers with lost mobile coverage after the 3G shutdown through subsidies, boosters and low-earth orbit satellite equipment.

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October 14, 2025

‘Gap fee’ at the doctors is $49.14. Not zero.

Worse still, when asked ‘when will that gap fee get to zero?’ - as the Albanese Government had promised – the Department said the out-of-pocket cost of seeing the doctor will probably go UP.

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October 10, 2025

Outage had tragic consequences

I am also proud to be the first ever Opposition MP to hold Regional Communications as a Shadow portfolio. The Nationals fought hard for this new Shadow portfolio because Regional Communications needs continuous focus as essential infrastructure

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October 8, 2025

The Communications Minister ducked and weaved

Sadly it took the tragic deaths of 4 Australians due to Optus’ second outage last month for the Albanese Government to bring legislation into the Parliament to properly establish the Custodian.

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October 1, 2025

Labor and Greens are happy to ride on the coattails of foreign money

To mix metaphors, while it is always healthy and good management to not have all your (economic) eggs in one basket, sometimes regional development advocates fail to see the forest for the trees.

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