02/02/2012
NEW figures showing lobbyists and big business spending millions of dollars to influence political parties and public policy should concern all voters, says Independent Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott.
The...
31/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott today backed calls by Australian Dairy Farmers for an urgent response from the Federal Government to a Parliamentary report into the supermarket milk war.
The Senate...
31/01/2012
AS Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner tweets about his joy in “hosting in Sydney 8 Chiefs of Navy from around the Pacific region”, Independent Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott today reminded him that at...
25/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Lyne MP Robert Oakeshott says this week’s NAPLAN results confirm that Australia’s education policy has still not addressed inequity in results from rural, regional, Aboriginal...
24/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Lyne MP Robert Oakeshott has today called on all Australians to apply maximum pressure on the major political parties to achieve a result on asylum seeker policy.
“If asylum seeker...
24/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Member for Lyne Robert Oakeshott said anyone suggesting the E10 mandate was supported by all sides of politics in the NSW Parliament is wrong and the Hansard record proves it.
“I...
23/01/2012
THE federal government has been asked to identify the Manning Valley as a priority region for scientific study into the impact of coal-seam gas mining on the environment.
Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott, who...
20/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott says he supports Andrew Wilkie and Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s efforts to negotiate a result that addresses problem gambling, and one that can pass both...
20/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott has called for a scientific study on the impact of coal-seam gas mining on the Gloucester Valley’s water resources.
Mr Oakeshott, who with New England MP Tony...
19/01/2012
INDEPENDENT Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott will urge the Parliament to put a referendum question as soon as practical to the Australian people on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
