- Mar 4, 2020
MEDIA RELEASE - Fishers fee relief too little too late
The NSW Labor Opposition has slammed the Liberal-National Government’s fee waiver for Commercial Fishing Management Fees as too little too late.
Shadow Minister for Primary Industries Jenny Aitchison called on the Government over a month ago to provide the fee waiver for commercial fishers after the Minister for Agriculture Adam Marshall announced that the Government would waive all Local Land Service Rates waivers for farmers.
The announcement comes nearly a week after
- Apr 17, 2019
LABOR CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO LAUNCH INQUIRY AND HALT NEW COMMERCIAL FISHING QUOTAS
How do you take $30,000 in revenue out of a small business with the stroke of a pen? New Minister for Agriculture the Hon Adam Marshall MP is poised to do just that if he pushes ahead with the latest stage of the disastrous commercial fishing reforms instigated by his predecessor, retiring Upper House MLC, Niall Blair. The implementation of the delayed quotas will do just that, according to NSW Labor. Wauchope fishers Matt and Karen Millward invested $150,000 when they purcha