LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has slammed news that the submission of the draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Cairns Shipping Development has been delayed yet again. “This is just ridiculous,” he said today. “The EIS was first commissioned in 2012, down-graded in 2015, and here we are in 2017 after squandering more than $8 million…
I stand here today as the co-chair of the Australian Tuberculosis Caucus, and I wish to acknowledge my other co-chair, the Hon. Matt Thistlethwaite. We are very capably, between the two of us, representing this issue here in this country. I also acknowledge my colleague and very good friend the Rt Hon. Nick Herbert, the…
On Tuesday next week, in the small community of Mareeba, west of Cairns, there will be a huge outpouring of community loss and grief at the funeral of Noeline Ikin, a very special woman who has fought for regional Australia to the very end. Noeline typified the values that regional communities hold dear: honesty, integrity,…