Barnaby bags credit for bounce
FARMERS’ incomes are rising, and it is has happened since the Abbott government came to power, Barnaby Joyce claimed yesterday.
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Joyce pushes tougher food laws
A BROAD review of food safety and tougher labelling laws have been flagged by Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.
PM flags jihadi rights at risk
THE Australian citizenship of dual nationals engaging in terrorism could be cancelled under new laws.
Officials may use buy-a-visa scheme
THE government’s millionaire visas — which allow foreigners to buy residency in Australia — could turn into a legal nightmare.
Ex-ministers axed in Lib shake-up
SEVEN former ministers have been dumped in the biggest generational change in the Victorian Coalition parties since 1999.
Thanks but no
SOPHIE Mirabella has taken to the Guardian to muse about the rough fate of the Nationals in the Victorian election.
A blow to the heartland
A SHOCK result in Shepparton has the Nationals dazed.
Nationals usher in new team
THE Victorian Nationals have elected former water minister Peter Walsh as its new leader and a new MP as his deputy.
Victoria Nationals elect new leader
THE Victorians Nationals have elected Peter Walsh as its new leader, while his deputy is a 28-year-old rookie MP.
Joyce ‘hindered’ hopes for win
OUTGOING Victorian Nationals leader Peter Ryan yesterday lashed out at federal ministerial colleague Barnaby Joyce.
A cuppa with Flo, and recalling Joh
THE impact of ABC funding cuts on its regional services throws three-part series A Country Road: The Nationals into sharp relief.
Ryan resigns as Nationals leader
VICTORIAN Nationals leader Peter Ryan today quit the top job in the wake of the weekend election rout.
The two-party battle for bush
BOTH Labor and the Nationals know that regional voters are key to their future.
On the farm with a living legend
A GIANT of the National Party reflects on political history.
Joyce the man to lead, says Anthony
LONG-serving National Party leader Doug Anthony has tapped Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce as a future leader of the party.
Affectionate look at mulga mafia
JUSTIN Burke selects A Country Road: The Nationals as his pick of the week on free-to-air television.
Joyce: Goss plaudits ‘are obnoxious’
BARNABY Joyce has said while Wayne Goss was a great premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen should also be “celebrated” as an “exemplary leader”.
Time to stop droning on about privacy
HAD George Christensen been at Griffith Uni on Tuesday, he might have cause to reconsider his support for a statutory tort of privacy.
Bureau faces call for climate inquiry
A QUEENSLAND state MP is lobbying to get the Abbott government to mount an inquiry into the way the Bureau of Meteorology keeps records.
Red-face centre
BARNABY Joyce’s blushing face is surely one of Australia’s greatest natural spectacles.
Foreign ownership still worries Joyce
AGRICULTURE minister Barnaby Joyce has broken his self-imposed ban on speaking out against foreigners buying Australia farms.
Nationals leader eyes Canberra fight
NEW NSW Nationals leader Troy Grant has backed his deputy’s tough stance with the Abbott government on schools funding.
Inquiry as TB goes untreated
PNG nationals and islanders infected with tuberculosis have been left untreated in far north Queensland.
DJ on his way
WHILE not quite up there with Anne Summers’s accidental “killing” of Mungo MacCallum, the Guardian Australia surprised a few people.
Blowin’ in the wind
JOHN Howard once famously said he liked Bob Dylan’s music. It was just the lyrics he wasn’t so sure about. And the current PM?
Up there, pollies!
THE competition between the House of Representatives and the Senate became physical yesterday.
Nats would give students say on fees
UNIVERSITY students would vote whether to pay union service fees under a proposal by Nationals senator Matt Canavan.
Joyce pushes super-fund farm investment
FEDERAL Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has urged Australian superannuation funds to back investment in local farms.
India seeks to widen asylum intake
INDIAN consular officials seeking access to 157 asylum-seekers on board an Australian customs vessel will look to identify not only Indian nationals.
Multitasker
NATIONALS leader Warren Truss is seen as a safe pair of hands, a source of wise counsel at the meeting-table, not an action man.
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