The Andrews Government has today again snubbed regional Victoria, refusing to take the Legislative Assembly to flood-affected areas. Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Peter Walsh, moved that the Legislative Assembly meet in a flood-affected Northern Victoria community in October/November this year. The switch would acknowledge the serious impact the floods…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Parliamentary Upper House Inquiry into the 2022 Flood Event in Victoria was back in Rochester on Wednesday night after the deadline for submissions was extended a further two weeks. A submission workshop was held in Rochester Secondary College by the Legislative Council environment…
Dear Editor, Regional Victorians are still reeling from a brutal State Budget, with agriculture, roads and health funding all slashed. Labor is making life tougher and deserves to face the blowtorch. Yet with so many unanswered questions, Labor remains largely silent, even as the Public Accounts and Estimates Hearing unfolds. PAEC should be the ideal…
Community leadership programs in regional Victoria have been cast adrift by the Andrews Labor Government. Funding for the programs, set up by the Victorian Liberals and Nationals in 2011/12, will finish at the end of this year, with the Government abruptly addressing the issue at today’s Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearing. “The…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the clock isn’t just ticking, it is now counting down for people wanting to make a submission to the Legislative Council’s Environment and Planning Committee’s inquiry into the 2022 flood event. And it runs out for good on June 5. Mr Walsh says it…
The leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the cash-starved Andrews Labor government has betrayed homeless Victorians by selling hundreds of public housing properties despite record waitlists. Mr Walsh says recently released figures from the Victorian Housing Register confirm almost 70,000 Victorians need public housing and despite the clear and…
The Nationals have hit the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) with a united front to hammer home the message regional Victoria deserves the respect of proper community engagement and communication with all stakeholders for the proposed power link between Victoria and NSW. The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, deputy leader and…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says constant demands have pushed Kerang Golf Club into Victoria’s disastrous budget and secured its $185,000 funding for an irrigation overhaul. Mr Walsh says Tuesday’s Budget makes it pretty clear Victoria is broke and life is only going to get harder under Labor. He says…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Rochester families can celebrate confirmation they will get a kindergarten. But Mr Walsh says how good that facility will be is yet to be revealed. He says the kinder will be built with a slice of $991 million (“a slightly rubbery number as the…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says after years of campaigning, demanding, petitioning, pushing and never stopping, Rochester will split $26.78 million with Heathcote for the construction of its new CFA/SES state-of-the-art operations complex. Mr Walsh says while it is incredibly overdue, the October 2022 floods have finally forced the Andrews…
