They laughed at the suffering of those in regional Australia. I want to note that was incredibly disappointing.

Many councils, especially those in the regions, often pick up the bill when failed markets and centralisation mean essential services like aged care, child care and health care are failing.

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“The Nationals are not taking a backward step in fighting Labor’s retirement savings tax grab – we defeated it in the 47th Parliament, and we will fight to defeat it again,” Dr Webster said.

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The Albanese Labor Government are imposing a globally unprecedented and sinister attack on retirement savings targeting ‘unrealised capital gains’ – taxing the growth of your asset value (such as the family farm) ...

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“It is disappointing these regional communities were left without Channel 7 and its affiliates being broadcast for 2 days. The government should have intervened to get the networks to solve their agreement issues much earlier.”

Australia’s red meat industry bodies recently abandoned their pledge to reach ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, with Meat and Livestock Australia’s review finding they couldn’t meet the target set in 2017.