National consensus is needed to highlight the importance of developing Northern Australia in the ‘Asian Century’. Background At a press conference on Friday 21st June, Tony Abbott released a major policy statement […]
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Article – ANDEV to play role in Coalition taskforce – North Queensland Register
AN influential private-sector business group led by billionaire Gina Rinehart will lobby to be part of a taskforce promised under an Abbott government to drive a 20-year economic plan for northern Australia. […]
Read moreNorth Australia Weekly Digest – 28/06/13
The Australian Australia’s resources sector has welcomed Kevin Rudd’s return by warning him not to consider making any changes to the mining tax, instead urging new policies to help secure productivity gains […]
Read moreArticle – Abbott To Pour Resources Into The North
The Coalition is set to pour resources into the under populated north, with the Coalition announcing it plans to build major cities at Darwin, Cairns, Townsville and Karratha. There could also be […]
Read moreArticle – Answering call of the wild north – Paul Syvret, The Courier Mail
Grand schemes Great open spaces of northern Australia are again calling southern politicians full of big ideas and little understanding of the land. GO NORTH and open up our underdeveloped tracts of […]
Read moreArticle – Opinion "Abbott's new frontier: vision versus reality" – The Age
So far, the federal Opposition’s election policies have been based more on crystal ball-gazing than hard actualities. Not counting the Coalition’s vapid plan for Australia’s “directions, values and priorities”, launched by Opposition […]
Read moreArticle – Alice faces exclusion under Coalition plan – Bryan littlely, Centralian Advocate
Alice Springs looks like being left desperately short of being part of “the next frontier” in Australia’s economic development if the Coalition takes power in the September federal election. The federal Coalition […]
Read moreArticle – Food Boom – Michael Saunders, Northern Miner
CHARTERS Towers residents could be in line for tax breaks under an LNP Government following the Coalition’s announcement of a 17-year `vision’ for Northern Australia. Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott released the […]
Read moreArticle – Abbott reveals plan
The State Government has already hopped on the food bowl bandwagon, recently granting water licences for potential producers along the Flinders River near Hughenden. The food bowl will also involve the harnessing […]
Read moreArticle – Abbott sidesteps Daly in Northern development plan – Ruby Jones, ABC
Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott says he does not plan to push for a dam to be built on the Daly River in the Northern Territory if the Liberals take power in […]
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