The Albanese Labor Government continues to unleash their unrelenting wrath on small business and it is disgraceful. Australians rely heavily on small, and family owned and operated businesses in our everyday lives – be it your child care operator, sporting coach, dog groomer, GP, local accountant or your favourite café owner, winemaker or brewer.
GREG JENNETT:
Time to bring in our political panel now. From Melbourne Assistant Minister Kate Thwaites is with us once again. Good to see you, Kate. And from the Gold Coast Coalition frontbencher, Angie Bell, welcome to you to Angie, both familiar to the program, but a slightly new combo. I think we’re trying here today.
The Coalition will strongly oppose Labor’s new Misinformation Bill, which Federal Member for Moncrieff, Angie Bell, described as an attack on free speech. When the Government released its first Misinformation Bill last year, more than 20,000 people put in submissions and comments opposing it, and so it was withdrawn in disgrace.
Australia’s housing challenges under the Albanese Government’s watch are very real. Labor continues to fail on housing policies that have not made a difference to Gold Coast families and as a result, the crisis is only going to worsen. They don’t have the economic prowess nor the ideas to address the nation’s housing crisis and the simple fact that there are just not enough homes.
GREG JENNETT:
Social media bans on teenagers is hard to walk passed as a dominant discussion point of the day. So let’s get into that now, joining us right here in the studio on our political panel we have government frontbencher and Member for Edern Monaro, Kristy McBain. Welcome back Kristy. And Liberal frontbencher and Member for Moncrieff, Angie Bell, welcome to you too Angie.
29 August 2024
Subjects: Visit to Little Scholars School of Early Learning on the Gold Coast; child care; Labor’s homegrown inflation and cost of living crisis; Labor’s energy policy shambles; nuclear energy; meeting with Brett and Belinda Beasley; the work of the Jack Beasley Foundation; Labor’s Big Australia immigration Policy; the CFMEU and Labor’s rackets, rorts, and rip-offs in the construction sector; the Greens’ radical agenda and what minority government would look like under an Albanese-Bandt-Labor-Greens Government; Tanya Plibersek’s gold mine decision.
What a historic haul for our Aussies in Paris with 18 gold medals, 19 silver and 16 bronze. Our congratulations go to the athletes who delivered our greatest Olympic Games in history. Our home-grown heroes Keegan Palmer, Arisa Trew, Moesha Johnson, Natalya Diehm, Emma McKeon, Saya Sakakibara, Jack Robinson, Elijah Winnington, Kaylee McKeown, Cam McEvoy, Jenna Strauch, Lani Pallister, Maximillian Giuliani, Flynn Southam, Jamie Perkins, Alex Perkins, Riley Fitzsimmons, Pierre van der Westhuyzen, Jackson Collins, Noah Havard and Tom Green are among our Aussie medalists who are from, train, or have grown up on the Gold Coast.
Labor has wasted four months by failing to act on key Senate inquiry recommendations into Red imported fire ants in Australia – ‘don’t let this come back to bite us’. By not acting, the Albanese Government has allowed the eradication zone to explode in size, further north into Burpengary East, west into Mount Sylvia, south into Tallebudgera Valley, as well as outlier areas, as far as Oakey near Toowoomba and Currimundi near Caloundra Airport.
The Gold Coast’s sister city relationships and international partnerships are a source of economic growth and provide cultural, educational, and professional opportunities, and boost our international profile. These relationships assist to open our door to the world and create real outcomes for Gold Coast residents and businesses. We are a community that has been a safe and respectful place for all who come here, from all faiths and backgrounds.
GREG JENNETT:
Okay, let’s bring in our political panel now standing by to join us Labor frontbencher, Kristy McBain, welcome Kristy and LNP frontbencher Angie Bell is with us. Same to you, Angie, welcome back.