The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is demanding an explanation surrounding millions of taxpayer dollars disappearing into the pockets of self-declared “Lefty”. Mr Walsh said most recently John Armitage, of research firm QDOS, was handed a $1.12 million contract without even a semblance of a competitive tender, to run a highly…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the time is long gone for the Andrews Labor Government to stop playing games with regional Victoria’s crippled small businesses. Mr Walsh said it is more than six weeks since Daniel Andrews and Labor promised small businesses support after they were devastated by Victoria’s…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says cross-border communities are being starved to death by the Andrews Labor Government. Mr Walsh said, for example, at Echuca-Moama, the NSW half of the twin towns is being smashed by Daniel Andrews and his determination to make it orange, not green. He said he…
Victorians dreaming of living in regional Victoria will continue to be priced out by pandemic-driven rises to property and rental prices unless the rules change to open new housing lots to the market. New data from CoreLogic shows the median house price in regional Victoria has risen to $514,668 since June 2020 – an increase…
Local jobs, projects and services in regional Victoria are under a cloud after $283 million was cut from the regional development spend in the past 12 months. Questioned at Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) last night about the massive budget black hole, Labor’s Regional Development Minister Mary-Anne Thomas struggled to answer basic questions on…
Dear Editor, After 111 days of leave the Premier is finally back in the job. He says he’s ‘fighting fit’ which is good news given the long list of problems he’ll have to tackle to get our people and our state’s economy back on track. Top of the list is the need to release a…
Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, wants the Transport Minister, Ben Carroll, to directly intervene in the leasing of VicTrack land to councils and community groups. Speaking in Parliament this afternoon, Mr Walsh said the current policies about the use of VicTrack land across regional Victoria are “ad hoc at best, and a shambles at…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Andrews Labor Government had failed to provide a single cent of new funding under the 2021/22 State Budget to monitor and enforce new laws which allow camping on state-licensed river and water frontages. At Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearings this week, Mr…
Farm crime continues to rise nearly two years since the Labor Government promised to crackdown on livestock and equipment theft from Victorian farms. New data from the Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) has confirmed a 9 per cent increase in livestock stolen in the past 12 months. And despite the ‘crackdown’ most crimes still go unsolved.…
Storm-affected farmers hoping for practical, on-the-ground aid have been let down by today’s long overdue response from Labor’s Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas. It’s nearly two weeks since storms savaged parts of Victoria, with Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley worst hit, leaving a path of destruction, floods and power outages in its wake. The Victorian Agriculture…
