Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell warned that the North Queensland sugar and fruit industries will likely suffer under a new tax deduction for carbon sink forests.
July 1st, 2008
New Nats Leadership team for a new Senate
Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell has handed the reins over to NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash as the party’s deputy leader in the Senate.
June 30th, 2008
Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell warned potential investors today not to put their money into carbon sink forests until the regulations for the Bill are finalised.
June 27th, 2008
“Child care benefits will be cut as a result of the Rudd government’s expanded income definition announced in this year’s budget,” said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell today, “But the Rudd government still won’t tell Australians how many people will be affected and by how much.”
June 19th, 2008
Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell has demanded that the Rudd government come clean on how many working families will be adversely affected by new income definitions introduced in a range of budget programs.
June 18th, 2008
“Families Minister Jenny Macklin is battling for credibility as she struggles to explain why the government is imposing rule changes to dramatically cut family payments to community sector workers”, said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell.
June 18th, 2008
Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell today questioned how Families Minister Jenny Macklin could be unaware that 200,000 workers in not-for-profit groups and hospitals would be adversely affected by her own budget measures.
June 17th, 2008
Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell warned today of the potentially dire consequences of dismantling the Wheat Industry Single Desk.
June 17th, 2008
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Australia May Lift Restrictions on Abortion-Related Aid
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 04, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - The Australian government is considering lifting abortion-related restrictions on overseas development aid, drawing warnings of a possible backlash by churches.
Christian opponents of the move charge that it is being driven by a domestic ideological agenda, not as a result of requests from nations that get assistance from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
The 12-year-old policy, strongly opposed by the political left and reproductive rights groups, states that AusAID funds may not be used to pay for abortion advice, training and services in developing countries. Opponents say it harms women in some of the Asia-Pacific region’s poorest countries such as East Timor and Papua New Guinea, key targets of Australian aid.
June 6th, 2008
“Department officials confirmed in Estimates today that Australia has not been approached by overseas countries to fund abortion related activities,” said The Nationals’ Senator Ron Boswell today.
“I asked whether overseas countries had come to us and asked us for help in funding abortion services. The Department responded that they were not aware of any particular requests to fund abortion related activities.”
June 3rd, 2008