General News
14 September, 2024
Senator visits Hill
SENATOR Matt Canavan visited the southern Tablelands last week, travelling around the area with LNP candidate for Hill Cameron McCollum and talking to locals about issues affecting them.
During the tour, Senator Canavan and Mr McCollum met with Ravenshoe community members to congratulate them on their success in stopping the proposed Chalumbin industrial wind power project.
The Senator noted that projects of this nature had lost their social licence, were harmful to the environment, divided communities, and contributed to cost-of-living crisis.
Senator Canavan pointed out that despite claims of “renewables are the cheapest form of energy,” rising power bills clearly demonstrated that was not the case.
Mr McCollum and Senator Canavan also attended an afternoon tea with representatives from the agricultural sector, with discussions focused on the productivity and cost impacts of over-regulation and the risk that the Labor Party might again sacrifice the live export industry for inner-city votes.
Senator Canavan also highlighted the threat posed by the EU’s new beef import regulations, which could set a precedent for EU laws influencing Australian trade and undermining Australian sovereignty, by extending their expectations on how land should be used to other nations, in what has been described as “Carbon Colonialism”.
Finally, Senator Canavan was the keynote speaker at a well-attended dinner in Atherton.
Topics ranged from defence to principles of freedom and individual rights, with a focus on the cost of living and the strategic implications for our security and economy if Australia did not change course in the upcoming elections.
