Queensland LNP Senator Matthew Canavan has called on Queensland Labor's Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Bill Byrne, to apologise to Queensland canegrowers after unfairly slurring them by calling them 'militants' yesterday. Read more

Queensland LNP Senator Matthew Canavan has welcomed yesterday’s announcement that the Government has rejected the sale of S. Kidman & Co as the right one, but he also warned that it highlighted the urgent need to close a major loophole in Australia’s foreign investment arrangements as soon as possible. Read more

Evidence presented to a federal parliamentary committee shows that Labor and the Greens are responsible for the “snake and skink” delay to the Carmichael Mine Project, holding up 10,000 jobs in Central Queensland for perhaps a year or more.  Read more

A dissenting report of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee has found that a private member’s bill to legislate for same sex marriage fails to protect fundamental human rights. Read more

Queensland Senator Matt Canavan has condemned court action announced by environmental activists today set to further delay development of the Carmichael coal mine. Read more

Two key Central Queensland Federal MPs have welcomed today’s announcement that the Adani coal mining project has received Commonwealth environmental approval. Read more

The Commonwealth Grants Commission need a kick up the backside, Queensland Senator Matt Canavan told the Senate today. Read more

A ‘Fitzroy Water Workshop’ will be held in Rockhampton to enable the region’s key federal MPs to hear detailed cases for competing water project concepts in the region. Read more

There are "some substantial missed opportunities” from the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, especially for sugar, Senator Matt Canavan said in a speech in the Senate last night. Read more

The importance of Port Alma for future live cattle exports has been acknowledged by the federal Senate today. Read more