The Prime Minister’s plans to introduce income contingent loans for the VET sector almost mirror a Coalition commitment under John Howard made five years ago.   Coalition spokesperson for Employment Participation, Sussan Ley, says “you would have thought Labor had learnt their lesso... (02-Feb)

    The Gillard Government has again proved it is without a clue on how to halt the slide in Australia’s job market and a faltering local economy.   During an interview on Radio National today, Treasurer Wayne Swan talked up Australia’s economy against a flailing European market only to admit his (May 2011) forecast of 500,000 new jobs in two years was utter nonsense.   “He seems to have no idea on wh... (30-Jan)

  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)