Labor has turned its back on the bush - Queensland Country Life
THE Labor Party is said to have its origins in a strike by shearers in Barcaldine in 1891. Every May Day, Labor faithful return to the town for a street march and festivities at the showground. But the fact is Labor long ago turned its back on the bush.
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Australians and their gas
In the 1950s, the Australian Government decided that we had to reduce our reliance on imported oil because the cost was making it difficult to keep the Australian dollar fixed to the pound. So the Menzies government passed the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1957 and encouraged the major resource companies to look for oil in Australia.
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Gas restrictions push up prices and threaten jobs - The Australian
In the 1950s, the Australian government decided that we had to reduce our reliance on imported oil because the cost was making it difficult to keep the Australian dollar fixed to the pound. So the Menzies government passed the Petroleum Search Subsidy Act 1957 and encouraged the major resource companies to look for oil in Australia.
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Foreign-Funder Greenies are happy to block Indigenous jobseekers - The Australian
Aboriginal interests don’t get a look-in as cashed-up cynics work the courts.
Last week the leader of a major Australian political party encouraged his supporters to break the law to stop a coalmine. Indeed, he claimed he would be willing to break the law, too. Richard Di Natale’s call to arms may have been irresponsible, but it was also premeditated. All part of the plan.
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Canavan - Quarterly Essay
I sometimes feel very humbled that so many southern Australians care so much for a quaint little coal mine in the wilds of central Queensland, near where I, and my wife and five children live.
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JOBS BONANZA Mines to fire up North jobs hub - Townsville Bulletin
This has been a historic week for North Queensland.
The announcement of Townsville and Rockhampton as Adani’s FIFO hubs is just the medicine that our jobs-hungry region needs.
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It's time to take action on Adani - The Courier Mail
IN THE inner-city Brisbane suburb of West End, business is booming.
Cranes dot the skyline as new apartment blocks go up and new shops open their doors.
That construction boom creates plenty of jobs – in fact, the unemployment rate in Brisbane is 5.8 per cent.
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Westpac lies on coal interests - Townsville Bulletin
IN its latest climate change statement, Westpac does not just discriminate against Queensland, they are now lying about it too.
In the Townsville Bulletin yesterday a Westpac spokesperson is quoted as saying that "it would be wrong to suggest that (Westpac's climate change policy) is about favouring one state or region over the other." Yet Westpac's media release about its latest climate change policy states plainly that "Financing for any new thermal coal projects [is] limited to existing coal producing basins." That means that the huge Galilee Basin in North Queensland won't attract any finance from Westpac because it is not in an existing basin.
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Dale Last - Member for Burdekin - Speech at Bowen Anzac Day Dawn Service
This year I attended the Bowen Anzac Day Dawn Service where Dale Last, the Member for Burdekin, gave a speech to mark 100 years since the the Battle of Beersheba.
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ABC’s blind spot on Adani coal mine
The ABC passed an unhappy milestone recently — more than half its staff work from their inner-city Sydney headquarters.
Perhaps that is why some of the ABC’s reporting on major issues fails to hear from those who live further away. For example, the ABC’s reporting on coal is, at times, nothing but “fake news”.
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