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    <title>Coulton’s Catch-up</title> 
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    <description>Written By Mark Coulton MP -&amp;nbsp; This year I have undertaken a tour of the various Progress Associations, Chambers of Commerce and Development Groups throughout the electorate. Whilst I haven’t got to every group yet, I will visit several more over...</description> 
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    <title>Coalition Welcomes NRL Anti-Doping Initiatives       </title> 
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    <description>Luke Hartsuyker MP -&amp;nbsp;The Coalition welcomes today’s announcement by the NRL that it is introducing state-of-the-art measures to strengthen rugby league’s position in the fight against the use of performance enhancing drugs, Shadow Minister for Y...</description> 
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    <title>Time for Government to Practice What It Preaches on ASADA Questions and Answers       </title> 
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    <description>Luke Hartsuyker MP -&amp;nbsp;The Government must answer outstanding questions on notice about the current drugs in sport investigation before the next round of Senate estimates hearings begin next week, Shadow Minister for Sport and Youth, Luke Hartsuyk...</description> 
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    <title>Crook grateful for RDA funding for O’Connor </title> 
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    <description>Tony Crook MP -&amp;nbsp;Member for O’Connor Tony Crook MP has welcomed over $1.5 million of Regional Development Australia (RDA) funding for his O’Connor electorate.&amp;nbsp;Mr Crook said that four projects had been successful in O’Connor in Round Three, a...</description> 
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    <title>Boswell: “Labor Government’s job-killing business costs must go”</title> 
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    <description>​Senator Ron Boswell -&amp;nbsp;Boswell: “Labor Government’s job-killing business costs must go”Costs imposed on Australian business by the Labor Government are killing jobs and must go, Queensland Senator Ron Boswell said today.He was responding to the ...</description> 
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    <title>Labor talks deregulation but continue to strangle the economy with more regulation!</title> 
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    <description>John Cobb MP -&amp;nbsp;Joint Release&amp;nbsp;Senator Arthur SinodinosLabor’s decision to task the Productivity Commission (PC) to review the impact of regulatory burdens across the food supply chain is like closing the door after the horse has bolted, Shad...</description> 
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    <title>Gerry Peacocke</title> 
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    <description>Mark Coulton MP -&amp;nbsp;Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton was saddened at the passing of Gerry Peacocke, the former State Member for Dubbo.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Mr Coulton said that Mr Peacocke was a true son of Dubbo.&amp;nbsp;“Gerry dedicated his life to th...</description> 
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    <title>Budget exposes Labor’s school funding con, says Hartsuyker</title> 
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    <description>&amp;nbsp;Luke Hartsuyker MP -&amp;nbsp;The Gillard Government’s pledge to spend more on schools has been
exposed as another Labor confidence trick by the Federal Budget, The Nationals’
Federal Member for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker, said today (Friday).

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    <title>Labor Budget $20m cut to Charles Sturt University means pain for Orange and Bathurst</title> 
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    <description>Joint media release Senator Fiona Nash and John Cobb MP -The Gillard Government Budget has confirmed Charles Sturt University is to cop a $20 million hit which will hurt not just its campuses in Orange, Bathurst and Dubbo, but also small business and...</description> 
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    <description>Written by John Cobb MP -&amp;nbsp;The Coalition’s plan to put more money back into your pocketThe announcement by Tony Abbott during his budget reply speech last week that the Coalition will keep income tax cuts and fortnightly pension and benefit incre...</description> 
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    <title>Flynn Schools Enjoy Success in Showcase 2013 Awards</title> 
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    <description>Ken O’Dowd MP -&amp;nbsp;Federal Member for Flynn Ken O’Dowd has congratulated Gladstone Central State School and Capella State High School for their recent achievements in the Showcase 2013 Awards for Excellence in Schools.Gladstone Central took out the...</description> 
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    <title>Coalition will take pressure off household and business budgets and get Australia back on track</title> 
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    <description>Luke Hartsuyker MP -&amp;nbsp;


In tonight&amp;rsquo;s Budget Reply speech Tony Abbott detailed a vision for our nation which will take the pressure of households and businesses and get Australia back on track.

The Leader of the Opposition detailed ho...</description> 
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    <title>Where’s the proof for the Bruce?</title> 
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    <description>Ken O&amp;rsquo;Dowd MP -&amp;nbsp;

Federal Member for Flynn Ken O&amp;rsquo;Dowd has joined LNP Candidate for Capricornia in calling for more detail over funding claims made by the Member for Capricornia for the Yeppen South upgrade on the Bruce Highway.
In...</description> 
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    <description>Senator Bridget McKenzie -&amp;nbsp;


The plight of Victorian growers and the regional processed fruit industry has been raised in Canberra, courtesy of a Notice of Motion by Victorian Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie, who said the Gillard Labor Go...</description> 
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    <title>South of Embley approval a huge sigh of relief for Gladstone</title> 
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    <description>Ken O&amp;rsquo;Dowd MP -&amp;nbsp;


Federal Member for Flynn Ken O&amp;rsquo;Dowd has welcomed the approval of Rio Tinto Alcan&amp;rsquo;s South of Embley bauxite mine and port development project in western Cape York. The approval is subject to rigorous enviro...</description> 
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    <title>Agriculture - Five years of Labor Neglect!</title> 
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    <description>John Cobb MP -&amp;nbsp;
After five long years of neglect, anti-agricultural policies and no vision for the sector Labor&amp;rsquo;s only solutions are a bandaid, the Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, John Cobb said today.&amp;nbsp;
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&amp;ldquo;THE centrepiece of Labor&amp;rsquo;s 2013 Federal Budget infrastructure promise is a major funding cut for roads and rail &amp;ndash; down from $36 billion over 6 years to $24 billion over 5 years,&amp;rdquo; Nationals leader and Shadow...</description> 
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    <description>Luke Hartsuyker MP -&amp;nbsp;


Federal MP Luke Hartsuyker has raised concerns over Federal Government claims that work will commence on more than $3 billion worth of new Pacific Highway projects before mid 2014.

During a speech in the Federal Par...</description> 
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John Cobb MP -&amp;nbsp;
 Tony Windsor today voted with Labor and the Greens to pass a bill that is anti-farming, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, John Cobb said today.
&amp;ldquo;The Agriculture and Veterinary Chemicals Bill includes a...</description> 
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This year&amp;rsquo;s Labor Budget is particularly unsurprising according to Federal Member for O&amp;rsquo;Connor, Tony Crook MP.&amp;nbsp;

&amp;ldquo;As I have said over and again, for a Parliament that was to focus on regional Austra...</description> 
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    <description>Michael McCormack MP -&amp;nbsp;
WHILE Labor would have you believe this year&amp;rsquo;s Budget is to &amp;ldquo;keep our economy strong and invest in the future&amp;rdquo;, local people will see more taxes and more broken promises, according to The Nationals&amp;rsqu...</description> 
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Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Federal Member for Wide Bay, Warren Truss, today said the Gillard Government&amp;rsquo;s election Budget fails to fund the completion of the four lane Cooroy to Curra Bruce Highw...</description> 
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    <description>This year&amp;rsquo;s Budget delivers more debt, more deficits, more taxes, more broken promises and more uncertainty, Federal Member for Cowper Luke Hartsuyker said today.

And despite Minister Albanese&amp;rsquo;s media release the Budget papers do not o...</description> 
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    <description>Michael McCormack MP -&amp;nbsp;
WHILE Labor would have you believe this year&amp;rsquo;s Budget is to &amp;ldquo;keep our economy strong and invest in the future&amp;rdquo;, local people will see more taxes and more broken promises, according to The Nationals&amp;rsqu...</description> 
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