Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion
Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs

The Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs Senator Nigel Scullion has blasted the Queensland Government for paying lip service to Cape York communities on wild rivers and for stifling their economic future.

Senator Scullion made the statements following an announcement by Qld Environment Minister Vicky Darling the state government was proposing three new Wild Rivers declarations on the Cape York Peninsula.<...

The Government must act to restore confidence in the Murray-Darling Basin reform process and release all legal advice relating to the consistency of the proposed Basin Plan with the Water Act, Coalition Basin spokesman Simon Birmingham said today.

"With conflicting legal advice being touted by environmentalists, irrigators and the South Australian Government, it’s time for Minister Burke to end the uncertainty and release the thousands of pages of legal advice he holds," Senator Birmingham...

Federal Coalition does not support Tasmanian Forestry IGA and will not recognise new forest conservation reserves

Peg Putt can demand the lock up of as much Tasmanian forest as she likes, but any hectare reserved under the current sham Intergovernmental Agreement process will not be recognised by the Federal Coalition.

“The Federal Coalition does not support the IGA and will not recognise any of the proposed new forest conservation reserves,” Coalition Forestry Spokesman R...

In Senate Estimates last night it was revealed that Treasury and Tourism Departments had still not modelled the impacts of a carbon tax on the sector.

The Prime Minister dodged this revelation in Question Time today, attempting instead to focus on climate change and the Great Barrier Reef.

Yet today’s performance by the Prime Minister highlights the inadequacy of $650b that will be spent in buying offshore credits that would do nothing to contain the Crown Of Thorns Starfish outbreak deci...