27 January, 2011
Today Julia Gillard has abandoned amongst other programs, the ridiculous Cash for Clunkers scheme which like so many of her schemes was a failure from the start.
The Coalition welcomes the Government’s move to divert the $429 million from this scheme to post-flood rebuilding.
The car buy...
27 January, 2011
Julia Gillard has today acknowledged what the Coalition has been saying for three years about Industry Minister Kim Carr’s spending addiction. st century," clearly the Prime Minister disagrees with her minister.
In axing a series of his industry programs today, Ms Gillard has effectively c...
25 January, 2011
The lights have come on for Minister Carr. Late yesterday afternoon he announced a "Food Processing Industry Strategy Group". The food and grocery industry has been lobbying for years for such a group.
It is great that the minister has adopted Coalition policy to get a group like this to l...
25 January, 2011
Australia Day is a time to celebrate our nation’s achievements and a time to reflect on the values that we cherish.
It is a time to celebrate our national heroes and to cherish the things that continue to make Australia the lucky country.
Recent floods may have devastated parts of our nat...
21 January, 2011
Cash for clunkers should be scrapped and the money should be put towards rebuilding after the floods.
Instead of resorting to slugging another tax on Australians, Julia Gillard should begin paying for rebuilding in Queensland and Victoria by scrapping her ridiculous Cash for Clunkers progr...
18 January, 2011
Kim Carr is not only a political Neanderthal, he confuses billions with millions. Not content with hopelessly managing his own portfolio, he has now extended this incompetence to Stephen Conroy’s portfolio. In announcing yesterday the NBN Co’s equipment contracts he managed to get billions mixed up ...
19 December, 2010
Another week passes, and still the paralysing uncertainty continues for Australian business over the fate of proposed research and development (R&D) tax changes.
For well over a year, Innovation Minister Kim Carr has arrogantly ignored feedback on his plans to change the R&D regime.
He ha...
14 December, 2010
Labor‟s Cash for Clunkers election promise is under fire yet again – this time from its own Industry Department, confirming „Pink Batts on Wheels‟ is a disaster waiting to happen.
The Government has already been forced to defer the start date by six months.
But, as reported today, the Department ...
14 December, 2010
Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change Mark Dreyfus has added his name to the swelling list of Labor frontbenchers who don’t have a clue about their party’s Cash for Clunkers policy.
While being questioned today about revelations from the Department of Industry about the unravell...
02 December, 2010
2 December 2010
Statistics confirming another contraction in Australian manufacturing provide the Gillard Government with even more reasons to abandon its plans to cripple research and development (R&D) investment in the sector.
The November version of the monthly Australian Ind...