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“HEAVEN AND EARTH” BRISBANE LAUNCH 19 MAY 2009 SENATOR RON BOSWELL BRISBANE (Check against delivery) PROFESSOR PLIMER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT’S NOT EVERY DAY YOU GET TO DO A LOCAL LAUNCH FOR A BEST SELLER. I SEE FROM THE NIELSEN BOOK SCAN OF MAY 2 THAT PROFESSOR PLIMER IS RATING HIG... (19-May)
Senator Barnaby Joyce Leader of the Nationals in the Senate NATIONAL PRESS CLUB OF AUSTRALIA ADDRESS : MONDAY 11 MAY 2009 After the last election – and I believe for the 16th successive poll going back to the 1969 Coalition victory – learned opinion-writers commented on the twilight of our Party.... (11-May)
The Federal President of The Nationals, John Tanner, Federal Director Brad Henderson, State Director Luke O’Sullivan, my Federal and state parliamentary colleagues, delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. Welcome to Halls Gap: the town that Labor forgot... (09-May)
Speech by Warren Truss Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Minister for Transport Australian Trucking Convention 2009 Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Thursday 23 April 2009 Chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, Trevor Martyn, Chief Executive, Stuart St Clair, sponsors, distin... (23-Apr)
I rise to support this condolence measure with the same feelings of shock, sadness and horror that are undoubtedly shared by everyone in this House, and indeed all Australians. Even Dorothea Mackellar, the woman who captured the contrasting nature of rural Australia as no-one has done before or sin... (09-Feb)
Money cannot buy happiness, the old proverb wisely says, but the Rudd Government is certainly trying its hardest to prove that wrong. What the Prime Minister announced yesterday was a plan to use our children’s money to fund five minutes of sunshine - indeed, probably 30 seconds of sunshine or eve... (04-Feb)
SENATOR BOSWELL – SPEECH NOTES [check against delivery] NATION-BUILDING FUNDS (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 2008 THE BILL REPEALS PART 9C OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999, WHICH ESTABLISHES THE COMMUNICATIONS FUND, AND REPEALS THE HIGHER EDUCATION EN... (05-Dec)
I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS MOTION TO Disallow the Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines made under subsection 40-1010(3) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. I SEE THIS DISALLOWANCE MOTION AS THE DOWNPAYMENT ON A FUNDAMENTAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE ECONOMY TO BE ACHIEVED BY THE GOV... (01-Dec)
It is a great pleasure to have this chance to stand before my friends and colleagues in the National Party. To Warren - following Warren is impossible because he says everything and it was a typical expose of that erudite Lutheran type of analysis of exactly where our Nation is and where our Nation... (25-Oct)
I was going to begin with a joke. Labor’s economic management. But this is more a tragedy for Australia, not a joke. Eleven months ago today we awakened to the reality of a new Labor Federal Government. The Australian people made their choice, and as disappointing and painful as that was for us,... (25-Oct)