TRANSCRIPT: CANBERRA: LIBERAL NATIONAL CHAOS, WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS (WISPs), REGIONAL FUNDING
STEPHEN JONES, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL SERVICES, TERRITORIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Good morning. Well, there’s got to be more to being a National Party MP than coming down to Canberra in a big hat with a fake stockwhip.
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The Jones Report - 23 February 2018
For the 16th straight day, the bloke with the red face in a big hat hogged the front page and the first story in every news bulletin.
Barnaby Joyce’s resignation today is welcomed and appropriate. Not because of his personal affairs or because of the untested allegations about sexual harassment but because he was clearly unable to continue doing his job.
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The Jones Report - 16 February 2018
You know when social media issues its own #hashtag to describe a political incident that the mob are laughing at you, not with you. When #bonkban started trending this week, it confirmed my every instinct.
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DOORSTOP: CANBERRA: TURNBULL-JOYCE CHAOS AND REGIONAL FUNDING DELAYS
STEPHEN JONES, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL SERVICES, TERRITORIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Good morning everyone. Well it’s time for Barnaby Joyce to do the right thing by the country, by his party and step down. And, if he is not going to do that, if the National Party can’t sort out their own issues, then the Prime Minister has to act.
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The Jones Report - 9 February 2018
When your Government has a plan for corporate tax cuts but not for wages -
This week the Reserve Bank Governor repeated calls for a pay-rise for Australian workers. Absent of a plan to address the problem, the Government reverted to the only trick in its book of “trickle-down economics”: a whopping $65 billion worth of tax cuts.
Mr Turnbull claims these will be passed on to workers. There is no evidence – anywhere – that this will happen.
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Doorstop: Canberra
E&OE TRANSCRIPTDOORSTOPCANBERRAMONDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2018
SUBJECTS: Coalition’s pork-barrelling National Stronger Regions Fund, Newspoll, Citizenship
STEPHEN JONES, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL SERVICES, TERRITORIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Good morning everyone.
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The Jones Report - 2 February 2018
Federal ICAC is now inevitable. Labor Leader, Bill Shorten, used his first keynote address for 2018 to announce a Labor Government will introduce one.
And while Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, has opposed the move; the public pressure will be all one way.
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DOORSTOP: Citizenship, same-sex marriage debate
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DOORSTOP
CANBERRA
WEDNESDAY, 6 DECEMBER OCTOBER 2017
SUBJECTS: Citizenship, same-sex marriage debate
STEPHEN JONES, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, SHADOW MINISTER FOR REGIONAL SERVICES, TERRITORIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Good morning. Well a few weeks ago, Labor agreed with the Government on a process of show and tell. Overnight, we have seen that only Labor has done the show and tell.
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TRANSCRIPT - DOORSTOP - BUNDABERG
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DOORSTOP
BUNDABERG
MONDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2017
SUBJECTS: Bundaberg Men’s Sheds, NBN, Turnbull Government in Crisis
LEANNE DONALDSON, LABOR MEMBER FOR BUNDABERG: Well, we’re here today with Stephen Jones, Shadow Minister for Regional Communications, Regional Services and Regional Development. And, it’s great to have him here in the regions with us and I’m here with the Bundaberg Men’s Shed as well, today, where a re-elected Palaszczuk Government will provide $200,000 to the Bundaberg Men’s Shed for them to build a new shed right there on their new ground.
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Coalition’s failed NBN and New England by-election
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DOORSTOP
TAMWORTH
THURSDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2017
SUBJECTS: Coalition’s failed NBN and New England by-election
DAVID EWINGS, LABOR CANDIDATE FOR NEW ENGLAND: We’re in Tamworth today continuing our campaign in the New England by-election and it’s a real pleasure to have Stephen Jones - the Shadow Minister for Regional Communications. Our focus today is the NBN and hasn’t it been an absolute schmozzle . We’ve got fibre in Armidale and, yet, in Tamworth we’ve got something entirely different. It’s a total joke. It looks like the man who allegedly invented the internet has broken the internet.
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