Media Release: Record increases to HECS-HELP debts sending young graduates to the wall
26 April 2024
On 1 June, more than 3 million university graduates – many in their 20’s and 30’s looking to get their start in life - will be hit with a 4.7% increase in their student debt.
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Media Release: New data shows farmers will walk away if worker access is further eroded
19 April 2024
New data from the National Farmers’ Federation has revealed farmers are threatening to change what they grow or even walk away from farming if their access to overseas workers is further eroded.
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Media Release: Communications investment a gamechanger for King Island
11 April 2024
The completion of the $9.8 million investment into the King Island mobile network is being officially celebrated today. The globally recognised communication project established a new standard for telecommunications infrastructure, with the delivery of the world’s longest high-capacity microwave feed from Cape Wickham to Victoria.
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Media Release: AEC Referendum Entity Returns
4 April 2024
The AEC’s recent Entity Returns report has confirmed what many had already begun to suspect; The Voice’s Yes campaign was a priority for elites, activists, and corporations, while the No campaign was supported by everyday mums and dads.
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Media Release: Under Labor, everyday essentials keep going up
2 April 2024
The recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) data is a reminder of the extraordinary financial pain that hardworking families right across the North-West, West Coast, and King Island are experiencing because of the Albanese Labor Government’s bad policies.
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Editorial: Our region deserves more than a throw-away line
25 March 2024
If there was an award for the most over-used phrase this year, “cost-of-living crisis” would be a hot contender. It’s been bandied around by politicians pointing the finger at everyone else and taking giant steps backwards rather than claiming responsibility.
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Media Statement: Closing the gap
15 February 2024
The failure to close the gap is not confined to a single party, institution, or government. There has been a collective effort across Australian politics to succeed in this area, but closing the gap has not been achieved.
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Media Release: Labor buries the truth about taipans
15 February 2024
The Albanese Government must immediately clarify why it will not respond to new evidence and instruct Defence to pause the burial of Australia’s MRH-90 Taipan helicopters.
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Media Release: Labor fails to skill the North-West, West Coast and King Island
14 February 2024
New data proves that despite promising to skill more Australians than the Coalition, Anthony Albanese’s Labor government is overseeing a wholesale collapse in the number of apprentices and trainees in every state.
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Media Release: Tasmanian salmon industry calamity could be fixed tomorrow if Labor had a backbone today
28 January 2024
The Albanese Government’s weakness has been called out by Federal Opposition Leader Peter Duton and Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff following their visit to salmon industry workers on the West Coast of Tasmania.
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Media Statement: The Honourable Scott Morrison MP
24 January 2024
Former Prime Minister and Member for Cook, Hon. Scott Morrison MP, will leave Australia’s Federal Parliament at the end February 2024.
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Media Release: Taiwan elections
14 January 2024
I wish to extend my congratulations to the people of Taiwan for the successful expression of their democratic rights in electing Lai Ching-te as their new President.
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Media Release: Labor axe program to help local truckies
12 January 2024
The Albanese Labor Government is set to scrap the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program (HVSPP) which will have devastating consequences for our region a local MP has said.
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Media Release: More Labor lies on safety funds as road fatalities continue to rise
12 January 2024
With MYEFO exposing no extra money will be allocated to fix road accident Black Spots for another four years, the Albanese Labor government has been caught out lying about funding for the Commonwealth’s “cornerstone” road safety program.
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Media Release: Labor’s record-breaking Big Australia in 2023
4 January 2024
The scale of Labor’s Big Australia by stealth, which is fuelling inflation, driving up rents, and straining government services, has been revealed by new data released today.
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Media Release: Non-government schools and religious charities targeted in proposed tax grab
3 January 2024
The Coalition is urging the Albanese Labor Government to rule out adopting recommendations from a draft Productivity Commission report which threatens to rip funding from non-government schools and charities.
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Media Release: Benefits of the former Liberal government’s investment still being felt
19 December 2023
Federal Member for Braddon, Gavin Pearce MP, today joined the Mayors of Devonport and Central Coast Councils, to officially open the newest section of the $14.4m Coastal Pathway extension - from Leith to Don Heads.
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Media Release: Productivity Commission confirms biosecurity levy is bad policy
13 December 2023
A report by the Productivity Commission has confirmed what the Liberal/National Coalition has been saying from the outset: That the Albanese government’s proposed Biosecurity Protection Levy is a deeply flawed policy littered with a suite of issues.
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Statement: Minister Plibersek has put city politics ahead of process and people
30 November 2023
The Minister for the Environment, Tanya Plibersek, has announced that she will reexamine a decade-old decision to grant approval for salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour. This has set a very dangerous precedent.
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Media Release: The East Devonport community don’t need a review, they need the Minister to step up
22 November 2023
On Monday, I wrote to the Federal Minister for Health, the Hon Mark Butler, urging him to take immediate action to prevent the closure of the East Devonport Medical Centre.
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Media Release: Underwhelming cyber strategy too little too late
22 November 2023
The Albanese government’s new cyber security strategy, to be finally released today after more than a year in development and millions spent on high-priced consultants, fails to live up to the expectations minister O’Neil set for the government.
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Media Release: Labor is delaying COVID safeguards for Australian communities
20 November 2023
Australia is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 numbers as the country braces for a new wave ahead of Christmas, and yet the Albanese Labor government has failed to rollout new COVID vaccines to safeguard vulnerable Australians, with COVID-19 vaccination rates are at an alltime low.
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Media Release: Agriculture under siege
17 November 2023
Farmer confidence is at an all-time low after the National Farmers’ Federation surveyed more than 1600 farmers and found the majority of farmers (54.3 per cent) thought the Albanese Labor government was harming the industry.
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Media Release: ACCC must investigate supermarket meat prices
13 November 2023
The Federal Member for Braddon, Gavin Pearce MP, is calling on Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Agriculture Minister Murray Watt to investigate supermarket meat sale prices and urgently direct the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to hold a price inquiry.
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Media Release: Weeds and pests cost farmers billions, reinforces need for container levy
9 November 2023
A report released by ABARES this week has highlighted that weeds and pests are costing farmers $5.3 billion a year through management and production loss.
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Statement: Is it Labor's goal to shut down the entire West Coast of Tasmania?
8 November 2023
Is it the Albanese Labor government’s intention to wipe out the entire West Coast, one of Tasmania’s most productive and successful regions? Regrettably, all the evidence is pointing to this disturbing ambition.
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Media Release: Labor sees Illegal Maritime Arrivals sent to Nauru for the first time in nine years
23 October 2023
The Australian Border Force revealed that last month a vessel was intercepted and its passengers taken to Nauru for the first time in nine years. This is the ninth people smuggling venture to attempt to arrive illegally in Australia since the May 2022 Federal Election.
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Labor robs rural communities of funding
10 October 2023
Regional and remote communities are being hit hard by the rising cost of everything. Whether it’s groceries, petrol, electricity, housing, mortgage – many of you are telling me life is much tougher now than it was 18-months ago.
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Gavin Pearce hosts the Leader of the Opposition in Braddon
9 October 2023
It's great to be here at Elliott, at our Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture Dairy Research Facility run by James and his team. We've just had the Leader of the Opposition, my great colleague and leader Peter Dutton. Peter, welcome to the electorate.
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A hard-fought victory to save local pharmacies
17 September 2023
For months, I've been representing local pharmacists in Canberra who say that they were not adequately consulted by the Labor government before they announced their new 60-day dispensing policy, risking the very viability of pharmacies across our region and the nation.
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Speech to parliament: Labor's record in aged care
11 September 2023
Labor never misses an opportunity for self-congratulation, and this motion is another outstanding example of back-slapping by those opposite. Today, I want to focus my attention on their claim that they are delivering the safe, high-quality care that our older Australian’s deserve.
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Pearce calls for consultation inclusion
9 September 2023
Federal Braddon MP Gavin Pearce has blasted Housing Minister Julie Collins and the government for not holding North-West and West Coast-based consultation sessions to address the housing crisis.
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Bulk billing plummets under Labor
6 September 2023
Latest data has revealed that bulk billing rates have fallen dramatically under the Albanese Labor Government
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New recycling services coming to North West Tasmania
18 August 2023
The new de-packager was commissioned at the Dulverton Waste Management site at Railton. The $400k machinery will support the many farming and food industry jobs in northern Tasmania by processing food waste into compost, regardless of whether it is in its raw or processed form.
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Popular volunteer grants program now open
2 August 2023
More than eight million Australians volunteer each year, freely giving their time, energy and skills to support others. Australian volunteers are the backbone of their communities and are made up of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds.
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Somerset’s new all abilities playground grand opening
22 July 2023
The long-awaited all-abilities playground at Somerset’s ANZAC Park is open for play. The all-abilities playground has come to fruition through a combination of Federal, State, and local funding - costing a total of $2.5 million.
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Gavin Pearce weighs in on Avebury Nickel Mine
21 July 2023
Shareholders are being implored to back a deal that could keep an embattled West Coast mine afloat, while federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been asked to consider the situation.
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‘Cheaper Child Care’ delivers higher fees and no new places for the North-West
18 July 2023
During the last election, Labor promised families living in Braddon they would be better off, but their ‘cheaper childcare’ policy has only delivered higher fees, longer waitlists, no access and further pressure on the sector.
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Gavin Pearce and Angie Bell visit childcare centres in Tasmania
17 July 2023
While the federal government last week upped the subsidy paid to parents with children in care, the federal Liberal early childhood education spokeswoman is on a national fact-finding mission to guide her party's policy.
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Commonwealth review of infrastructure spend launched in May
5 July 2023
The federal government are on the verge of slashing over $1 billion in Tassie infrastructure spending, including over $300 million slated for projects in the north or north-west of the state, as part of a review of spending, Liberal Party MPs have claimed.
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Barnaby Joyce and Gavin Pearce attend Headstone Project event at Wivenhoe
30 June 2023
The new headstones for 20 veterans were unveiled at the Wivenhoe Cemetery during a ceremony on 30 June, with former deputy prime minister and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce in attendance.
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Circular Head hosts Voice to Parliament forum, led by Liberals
28 June 2023
The Circular Head community was given an opportunity to ask questions about the Voice to Parliament at a Liberal Party led community forum.
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Gavin Pearce and Jeremy Rockliff lobby Albanese government to provide aged care beds for the West Coast
18 June 2023
The Premier and the federal Braddon member have revealed that they have been lobbying the Albanese government to provide more aged care beds for the West Coast.
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Setting the record straight on truck washes
8 June 2023
This week, Senator for Tasmania, Anne Urquhart, issued a media release that included inaccurate information and false claims about the delivery of truck-washes and effluent dumps in Braddon.
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Gavin Pearce fires up over MMG tailing delays
8 June 2023
The federal government does not seem to understand the gravity of the Rosebery Mine's situation, Braddon Liberal MHR Gavin Pearce says.
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'Australia's SAS culture has already changed' says Gavin Pearce
6 June 2023
Braddon Liberal MHR Gavin Pearce, a veteran soldier, has spoken out to defend Australia's SAS troops.
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North-West Family Law Court Services
2 June 2023
For nearly two years, those living across the greater North-West Coast of Tasmania, have been waiting for the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia to confirm that it has secured a permanent venue to conduct its hearings in Burnie.
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Labor slashes funding for Veterans' charity
16 May 2023
Budget cuts to the veterans’ pathway program run by charity Soldier On makes absolutely no sense according to Federal Member for Braddon and veteran, Gavin Pearce.
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Help The Headstone Project undertake its vital work
2 May 2023
The Headstone Project, an organisation dedicated to ensuring that all Australian First World War veterans who returned to our shores, have their last resting place suitably marked, needs your help.
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‘It takes a country to defend a country’ National Defence: Defence Strategic Review
1 May 2023
As a veteran with a 20-year career in the Defence Force and the Federal Member for Braddon, I’m committed to ensuring that the government’s priority-1 is the protection of our country’s security, interests, and livelihoods.
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Albanese hands control of crucial manufacturing program to the Greens
10 March 2023
Prime Minister Albanese has sold out crucial sectors of the Australian manufacturing industry in a desperate effort to secure the passage of their National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) through federal parliament.
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Labor’s decision to award ADF combat ration contract to NZ un-Australian
1 March 2023
Federal Member for Braddon, Gavin Pearce MP, said he was disgusted with today’s announcement that a New Zealand company had won the contract to produce combat rations for the ADF.
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Labor must accept responsibility for surge in Covid deaths
23 February 2023
To use a military term, the Prime Minister’s mission to fix aged care has to be classified as ‘failure to execute’. Not only that, Labor has entered a warzone, armed with the best intelligence available and yet their actions have made the situation worse.
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Mining for a more cleaner future
20 February 2023
Where will the components come from that drive our successful transition to a cleaner, more sustainable future? It may seem counter-intuitive, but the answer is, from our world-leading mining industry.
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Faith leaders warn religious education under threat
14 February 2023
An alliance of Australian faith leaders has warned that the future of religious education is under threat if they are unable to choose teachers in accordance with their religious ethos.
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Major win for Tassie's manuka honey producers
2 February 2023
New Zealand’s long running campaign to trademark and claim ownership of the name “Manuka honey” has fittingly hit a brick wall as they withdraw their appeal on earlier rulings in the UK and European union.
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Federal Government funds strategy to get more GPs into region
29 January 2023
Attracting more GPs to rural and regional areas suffering desperate shortages is the goal of a new agreement between the Tasmanian and Commonwealth governments.
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Coalition’s strong economic management confirmed
27 January 2023
Data released by the Department of Finance today has confirmed that the former Liberal/National government left the Australian economy in a strong position, despite the global pandemic causing the largest shock to our economy in 100-years.
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Not the time to axe Keys2Drive program
25 January 2023
Federal Member for Braddon, Gavin Pearce MP, said that with the national road toll on the rise, now is not the time for the Albanese government to turn its back on road safety.
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Vale Mr John Bennett AM - Australian farming legend
24 January 2023
John Bennett was a mighty man. The Ashgrove Farms and Ashgrove Cheese co-founder’s contribution to the Australian dairy industry was extraordinary and revolutionary.
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