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Virus plan needed for boarding schools
Governments must start planning for students returning to school across state borders to avoid the chaos of 2020, a Nationals senator has warned.
Nationals call for ANZ boycott after bank’s push for net zero emissions
A climate change commitment from ANZ to halt lending to its largest customers unless the businesses can prove carbon transition plans by next year has been cautiously welcomed by conservationists, but enraged senior Nationals MPs
10 Coalition MPs back cut to JobSeeker supplement, but majority rule out snap back to $40 a day
More than 10 Coalition MPs support cutting the JobSeeker supplement in the new year as new research shows increasing unemployment benefits by $200 a fortnight would cost $7 billion a year, but most do not think it should return to its pre-pandemic level of $40 a day.
Still work to do on border rules
https://www.denipt.com.au/news/2020/09/22/1636016/still-work-to-do-on-border-rules-davey By DENILIQUIN PASTORAL TIMES Changes to border restrictions which allow more people to cross the border for any reason have been welcomed, but NSW Nationals Senator Perin Davey...
North Queensland Register- Live export decision common sense, say senators
The Commonwealth Government's decision not to appeal a Federal Court ruling which found a ban on live exports to Indonesia in 2011 to be illegal, has been described as common sense by the Nationals Senate team. Attorney General Christian Porter confirmed on Wednesday...
Mirage News-Ellerton Drive Extension unlocks Queanbeyan
A vital link through southern New South Wales has been completed with the opening of the Ellerton Drive extension, unlocking the region by reducing congestion and heavy vehicles in the CBD and taking traffic pressure off a growing Queanbeyan. Deputy Prime Minister and...
Bega District News- Respiratory clinic launches in Bega and Eden as part of COVID-19 response
Katungul Aboriginal Corporation Regional Health and Community Services is proud to be a part of the Australian government's response to COVID-19 with the opening of a GP-led respiratory clinic established in Bega and Eden. The purpose of the respiratory clinic is to...
ABC News-Deliver water-saving projects or risk losing more to environment, Murray-Darling Basin Authority warns states
ABC Rural / By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan Farmers and communities should expect more water to be lost from agriculture and returned to the environment unless the states speed up the delivery of water-saving projects, the Murray-Darling Basin...
Canberra Times- Yes, we wear Akubras but that’s where the similarity stops: Perin Davey on life as a National senator
Kirsten Lawson For many new politicians Canberra is a lonely experience, with no connection to anything outside the cloistered and frantic place that is Parliament House. Not so for new senator Perin Davey. For her, it's a kind of homecoming, in more ways than one....