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  • Charlie Schroeder: If the forest is recovering in the areas that have been quarried and otherwise cleared, it s not the forest that was there in the first instance. The first nation forest. It couldn't recover if... (26 June 2014)
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  • Meredith Doig: Given your support for the pastoral care provided by chaplains, I assume you would not object to similar pastoral care provided by non-religious persons. Chaplains are not allowed to proselytise... (25 June 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Senator Fifield's answer fails to address the question. Like Pontius Pilate he washes his hands. His failure to deal with "Operational and staffing matters" is probably because he spends too... (24 June 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: The residents of Maranoa will be pleased to know that the PM thinks they are North Queenslanders. Is this just an indication of the PM's total lack of understanding of direction or is it just a... (24 June 2014)
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  • Mark Duffett: If Senator Milne is concerned about fires ignited by electricity infrastructure, she should consider the implications of massive wind turbine rollout very carefully:... (24 June 2014)
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  • Ross Ulman: Thank you for your principled intervention, Mr Fifield. (23 June 2014)
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  • Meredith Doig: Well said, Louise. There are a number of problems with the Chaplaincy Program, not the least of them being that there is no system to weed out the religious zealots, the biblical literalists who... (18 June 2014)
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  • Kay Spurr: I am most interested in what issues the young people of Page raised. Did they express concern about the environment? Were they concerned that they would receive no benefit for six months if... (18 June 2014)
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  • OWEN HANNAGAN: ALERT ::: ALL NEW ZEALANDERS WHO REQUIRE A POSITIVE NOTICE BLUE CARD FOR CHILD RELATED EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA, LIKE ALL EMPOYLEES, DO NOT HAVE THEIR POLICE HISTORY CHECKED FROM NEW ZEALAND ..... (17 June 2014)
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  • Mark Duffett: The focus on 'nuclear actions' here is bizarre. Coal mining poses thousands of times greater threat to the Great Barrier Reef than uranium mining - and for about the same amount of energy.... (17 June 2014)
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  • Mark Duffett: Unfortunately, because forest absorbs more sunlight than grassland does, new tree plantings in temperate latitudes (i.e. southern Australia) are of only marginal benefit to the climate:... (17 June 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: That is very good news. I live near there and it gives me hope I may one day get a job or rebuild my business to get going again in life. (17 June 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: Victorian Independent Geoff Shaw supported sourcing health workers locally first then importing foreign nurses if there was a shortfall:... (6 June 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: Cutting budget to science will reduce the amount of science done. That will lead to poorer research outcomes and more reliance on imports. Building a smart economy will lead to more local... (5 June 2014)
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  • OWEN HANNAGAN: ARE ALL THOSE AUSTRALIAN NURSES REALLY AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS OR FULL OF UNCHECKED KIWIS WHO FREELY CROSS THE TASMAN AND PLACE A STRAIN ON EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH ??? ELIMINATE THE KIWI PROBLEM... (5 June 2014)
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  • Meredith Doig: It is undoubtedly true that many young people need support to help them through difficult times. But the National Chaplaincy Program is unnecessarily divisive and sectarian. There is no... (5 June 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: I think they mean 'unparliamentary' not 'an parliamentary'. (3 June 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: It is good to see Teresa Gambaro tackling bad traffic accidents at Milton Rd-Hale St which is very near my house in Red Hill. The traffic jams along Kelvin Grove Rd to Hale St are very high... (3 June 2014)
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  • OWEN HANNAGAN: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP THE UNCHECKED, UNRESTRICKED FLOW OF SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDERS TO AUSTRALIA.. I VOTE YES TO TO STOP THE FLOW OF TRANS TASMAN TRAVELLERS.. THEY MUST GO THRU THE SAME... (28 May 2014)
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  • Andrew Simmons: There seems to be a transcription error. I think the URL should be: www.jasonwood.com.au/stopcannedhuntingnow (28 May 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Senator Madigan is representing a party that has supported a Free Hospital system for 57 Years. Vince Gair warned in his 1957 Policy Speech that the Tory's would destroy Queensland's Free... (19 May 2014)
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  • Sue Lofthouse: When I heard that residents of Bairnsdale were callng for the dispersal of a colony of grey-headed flying foxes, I decided to visit the colony to see for myself the impact that they may be... (18 May 2014)
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  • William Boeder: Once again we see Senator Eric Abetz attempting to beguile the house Senators into believing that he and his Liberal cohorts are the saviours of honour and integrity. I am amazed by the pompous... (18 May 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: 4 Minutes of Bob Katter's thoughts would be worth more than the 2 hours of alternating anti union anti industry proposals from the LibLabs. Andrew Jackson apjackson@hotkey.net.au (17 May 2014)
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  • Charlie Schroeder: This is most unfair to the flying foxes, who are both endangered as well as a longer resident of Australia than the white population. That the flying foxes have to be moved on now is in part... (16 May 2014)
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