Media Room
Launch Old Chapel Tea Rooms Book Monday, 19 December 2011 14:58
Senator Abetz was delighted to be asked to officiate at the launch of the long awaited book chronicling the history of the Old Chapel Tea Rooms at Glenorchy at a special luncheon held today in the Tasmanian Royal Botanical Gardens. “Home to the wonderful people from Aurora, the Old Chapel Tea Rooms operate in the original Chapel built way back in 1830. The Old Chapel is older than Port Arthur and older than the City of Melbourne,” Senator Abetz said today at the launch of the Old Chapel Tea Rooms book.
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The Future Industrial Relations Agenda - Enough to Make You Go Green at the Gill(ard)sFriday, 15 October 2010 12:10
We have a hung Parliament - creating in its wake circumstances the likes of which we have not seen since the 1940’s. Our Parliament is now formed with a minority Labor Government, who in the House of Representatives hold 72 seats in their own right.
Common Sense Prevails on Qantas DisputeMonday, 19 December 2011 08:52
Despite the Australian Licensed Engineers Association calling for a consumer boycott of Qantas and threatening to ‘slow-bake’ them, I am glad that commonsense has prevailed to see the Union bosses agree to a deal. The Union has wisely dropped some demands including the building of a new hangar to be built in Australia.
The need to examine the consequences of a Labor-Greens Carbon TaxThursday, 30 September 2010 20:00
Address to the Pacific Rim Policy Exchange Firstly, thank you for the invitation to address this Pacific Rim Policy Exchange. More specifically, thank you for asking me to share my insights into the significance of removing barriers to entrepreneurship and into the free market’s role in strengthening economies worldwide.
Schweppes, POAG: BittersweetFriday, 16 December 2011 12:09
It is concerning that there has been an escalation of the Schweppes dispute following other union bosses forcing members out of work and into the picket line according to Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Eric Abetz. “This kind of blanket action by the union bosses is unhelpful and unnecessary and just escalates the matter,” Senator Abetz said today.
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Governor-General's Speech - Address-in-Reply - 43rd ParliamentWednesday, 29 September 2010 10:51
I congratulate Senator Pratt on being chosen by her colleagues to move the address-in-reply. Her Excellency’s address to this place yesterday highlighted the ongoing deficiencies of this ongoing Labor government—a government that failed when it had an absolute majority in the House of Representatives and is already continuing to fail without a majority. In the speech yesterday there was no mention as to what the government was going to do for the thousands of Australians that still have electrified roofs and living in danger of their houses burning down because of Labor’s bungled pink batt and insulation scheme. It has been simply airbrushed out of the pages of history. That is what Labor thought. Not so, because we as a coalition will continue to make the government accountable.
Another Day – Another Lock-outThursday, 15 December 2011 15:38
“Today’s announcement that Schweppes in Australia will lock out 150 of its workers after rolling industrial action shows that there is a bigger problem with the Fair Work Act,” Opposition Workplace Relations spokesman Senator Eric Abetz said today. “This is the latest following Qantas and POAGS lock-outs and it is now clear that there is a bigger problem,” Senator Abetz said today.
Speech - David Davies Memorial DinnerFriday, 03 September 2010 16:25
GetUp! - A New Kind of Astroturfing[1] GetUp! - independent and non-aligned? There is something particularly repugnant about an organisation which:
Which organisation am I talking about?
Some Christmas Reading from Labor - Just what everyone wanted under the tree!Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:25
Small and medium businesses have had a rude shock today to learn that the Federal Government has published 601 pages of regulation to go with the harmonised work health and safety laws. The harmonised laws come into effect on 1 January 2012. Julia Gillard somehow expects workers and their bosses in States with the ‘harmonised’ laws to be fully compliant with all of the regulations, and they have just 16 days to do so.
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- ALSF Address - The Forgotten People of the 21st Century
- Will Gillard stand by Rudd’s and Labor’s Federal Executive’s Decision to Block Militant Unionist Kevin Harkins from taking Sherry’s Senate Seat?
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- Shorten a no-show on first Test
- Prime Minister: Statements Relating to the Senate
