Julia Gillard’s announcement of an election date sparked a frantic closing down sale in the people smuggling industry, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen. Another boat arrival, with 68 people on board, on Monday, marked 25 boats to arrive for the year with a week of February still to go. “We have just witnessed the most ag...

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Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, has launched a petition to secure a more reliable 000 emergency phone service for North Queensland. The petition comes as a result of cases where emergency phone calls could not be made for an extended period on the Australia Day weekend after Telstra’s main line and back-up line were both cut. Mr Ch...

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The Labor candidate for Dawson is an embarrassing lone voice in the denial of Federal health cuts to the Mackay and Townsville Hospitals and Health Services, including hospitals in Townsville and the Burdekin, Mackay, Sarina, Proserpine, and Bowen.Even her puppet masters in Canberra have had to admit the Gillard Labor government slashed $103 m...

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The Gillard Labor government that slashed $3.2 million from funding, the equivalent of 30 full time jobs at Mackay Sarina, Proserpine, and Bowen hospitals, has reinstated funding to Victorian hospitals but not to Queensland. The same round of Federal health cuts also slashed $7.8 million, the equivalent of 70 full time jobs at Townsville region hos...

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Important projects on the Bruce Highway are disappearing every day as the Gillard Labor government wastes taxpayer money paying interest on their record debt. We are now paying more than $800,000 an hour in interest on Wayne Swan’s credit card. Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, said in just 18 days, the interest payments on Labor’s d...

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The mining powerhouse in the Central Highlands is being undermined by a deeply divided and dysfunctional government, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen. Mr Christensen said the Greens, Independents, and some Labor MPs (including Kevin Rudd and Joel Fitzgibbons) were attempting to change the Gillard Labor government’s failed...

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The Whitsundays could have had Goorganga Plains flood-proofing work funded in just 18 days if the Gillard Labor government had not created the biggest government debt in Australian history, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen. “We are now paying $800,000 an hour in interest on Julia Gillard’s credit card,” Mr Christensen sai...

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The Haughton River Bridge has been a danger to traffic for too long. Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, has the narrow crossing in his sights and is calling on the government to act before it’s too late. Mr Christensen is sending a postcard petition to Dawson residents in the Burdekin and Townsville, gathering support for urgent actio...

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North Queenslanders must retain control of agricultural land and food production by limiting foreign investment, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen.   The Federal Liberal National Coalition released a discussion paper this morning on Foreign Investment in Australian Agricultural Land and Agribusiness.   “Allowi...

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  North Queensland got ready for digital TV but it appears digital TV isn’t ready for North Queensland, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen. Only days after the analogue television system was switched off, residents across North Queensland are reporting partial to complete loss of digital signal, prompting Mr Christens...

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  Bodies corporate in Mackay facing huge insurance premium hikes are urged to lodge a submission with a federal parliamentary inquiry into the industry. Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, said people in Mackay and the Whitsundays were reporting massive increases in residential strata title insurance after Cyclone Yasi and the sum...

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A GREEN Jobs Corps graduation ceremony was held for the last time in Mackay today with the federally-funded conservation training program being scrapped by the Gillard Labor government.   The programme was that successful in this region that not one graduate of the program was able to attend the small ceremony as they all had secured jobs th...

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Burdekin cane farmers will have to leave one of their most valuable tools locked in the shed this summer because of what Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, claims is a "Greens-inspired act of bastardry" by a government regulator.   Mr Christensen toured Burdekin, Whitsundays and Mackay cane farms yesterday with Sha...

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THE announced closure of the iconic Club Med Lindeman Island resort should be ringing alarm bells within both State and Federal government that all is not well within the tourism industry, according to Federal MP for Dawson George Christensen.   “In fact the alarm has been going for some time in the tourism industry and this latest sad news...

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\Support for the coal industry under the carbon tax has been culled for next year in a desperate bid to create a surplus in the budget, according to Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen.   The Labor Government has committed to spend $1.3billion of carbon tax revenue over six years to support the mines slugged the most by the carbon ...

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