Mark Doran: So many things to get through in this hour, including this. It’s a follow-up, if you like, to the story we opened up with at the top of the program, where the stats are out—came out today—about national road trauma and the data associated with that for 2025, the year complete. For the first time since 2010, total road deaths…
Australia’s road toll rose in 2025 with approximately 1,314 lives lost on roads across the country. This upward trend in road fatalities is the highest annual toll in the last 15 years and underscores an alarming reversal in national road safety trends. The Albanese Labor government’s implementation of the National Road Safety Strategy has failed…
Figures revealed through Senator Matt O’Sullivan’s Budget Estimates questions confirm the WA Labor government has not only delayed critical infrastructure projects but is overseeing a total collapse in federal infrastructure investment in our state. Treasury’s responses show Commonwealth infrastructure payments to Western Australia will plummet from $4.299 billion in 2024-25 to just A$688 million by…
Labor’s dirty deal with The Greens to pass controversial changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act will decimate Australia’s forestry sector, sending jobs offshore, and deliver the death knell to an industry under siege from inner city environmentalists. Nationals Senator for New South Wales and Shadow Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, Water, and…
Labor is missing in action on the invasive Polyphagous Shot-Hole Borer (PSHB) outbreak in Perth, leaving Western Australia to confront one of the most serious biosecurity threats in decades alone. PSHB poses a catastrophic risk to our urban tree canopy, national parks, sustainable forestry and timber industries and the nursery sector. All 30 metropolitan local…
Just a few years ago when I finished school—actually maybe it was a bit longer ago than that—I did an apprenticeship in electronic servicing. If I’d had a dollar for every time that someone brought in some equipment and said, ‘I’ve replaced the fuse multiple times, but I still have the same problem,’ it would…
Thank you for the invitation to be here at the National Local Roads, Transport and Infrastructure Congress. My colleague, the Hon Senator Bridget McKenzie, was not able to attend and has asked me to be here on her behalf to represent the Coalition. It is great that this annual event is hosted each year around…
Under the Albanese Labor Government regional roads across Australia are deteriorating at an alarming rate. Instead of investing in proper maintenance and ensuring safer and more reliable roads, the Labor Government’s response is to simply lower the speed limits. The Government is considering reducing default speed limits on regional roads from 100 km/h down to…
WA Labor has a serious problem delivering the connections, roads and bridges our growing State desperately needs. The Government has shown time and again they simply can’t walk and chew gum when it comes to getting things built. If it’s not Metronet, they just don’t care. While billions of dollars continue to be funnelled into…
I take great pleasure—or maybe not, actually—in moving this motion today, because it highlights a very significant problem that we have in this country and that we have here in this parliament, and that is having a government that is unwilling to be compliant with the orders of this chamber. We have a government that…
