Please find a copy of my latest E-newsletter which can be downloaded here.   In this edition is information on…   - Australian Year of the Farmer - Latest on the Murray Darling Basin Plan - New Murray River Run electorate visit - Local campaign to eliminate invasiv... (27-Jan)

As I fly my small plane over this magnificent landscape, I notice a myriad of small bodies of water, marked on my flying chart as various swamps, dams, salt lakes and billabongs.  If it rains they have water in them, if it doesn't they are empty. The madness of this Plan would see many of them artificially watered, except no-one has a clue how you would actually do that. It’s not that long ago, one hundred thousand men a... (25-Jan)

  The Federal Opposition today questioned whether the Gillard Government’s Childcare Minister should remain in the portfolio, after Kate Ellis was publicly shamed into reviewing cuts in assistance to some of the country’s most severely disadvantaged families.   Reassessed every three... (23-Jan)

    The Federal Opposition believes today’s monthly job figures paint an unfortunate and much darker picture for the employment year ahead.   Coalition spokesperson for Employment Participation, Sussan Ley, says “even the Acting Treasurer put on his grim face for these December figures and that was before they even came out”.     In new data released this morning, total employment fell by 2... (19-Jan)

  A country NSW preschool’s fruitless attempt to find a qualified employee makes it just one of thousands of childcare centres struggling to meet the Gillard Government’s new carer-to-child ratios.   Owner of the Willows Preschool and Early Learning Centre at Orange, Cathy Carroll, ... (17-Jan)