Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has condemned four years of delay in delivering urgent, and increasingly widespread, youth mental health services across Victoria. Mr Walsh says the Andrews Labor government blowing its own trumpet with its plan to boost existing drastically underfunded and poorly staffed services by 2026 as…
The Liberals and Nationals Party Room has today supported the advancement of Victoria’s Treaty process. The Treaty Authority and Other Treaty Elements Bill 2022, which will be debated in State Parliament tomorrow, facilitates the establishment of a Treaty Authority, a body that will support future Treaty negotiations between Aboriginal Victorians and the State of Victoria.…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says regional Victorians are being pushed further from the health system they deserve as Daniel Andrews continues to spin away his $2 billion cut to the state’s health budget. Mr Walsh says the Andrews Labor Government’s recent budget confirms in black and white a $2…
Wycheproof students have enlisted Nationals leader Peter Walsh and Nationals’ candidate for Mildura Jade Benham in their campaign to save aged and acute care beds at the Wycheproof campus hospital of East Wimmera Health Service. Mr Walsh says he received a passionately worded letter from the Wycheproof P-12 College school captains and student representative council…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Victorian households and small businesses are once again set to pay the price for the failures of the Daniel Andrews Labor government. Mr Walsh says Victoria has been taken from lockdowns to now blackouts as our failed energy system struggles to keep the lights…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has again used the floor of Parliament in a bid to force the Victorian Government to hand over a small piece of land for Echuca cemetery’s expansion. Mr Walsh says his first appeal to Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio was treated with disinterest and disdain. He…
There’s a renewed push to capture new opportunities in manufacturing and drive alternative career paths in regional Victoria as part of Australian Made Week this week. Victoria was once a powerhouse in Australian manufacturing, but shortages of agriculture chemicals, machinery parts and PPE through the pandemic are driving home the desperate need to reduce Victoria’s…
Victorian Transport Infrastructure Minister Jacinta Allan has used parliamentary budget hearings today to raise more red flags on the Murray Basin Rail Project, saying her Federal Labor colleagues have made no commitment to the project’s delivery. Under questioning at parliamentary hearings on the 2022-23 State Budget papers, the Minister worked hard to muddy the waters…
Victorian farmers fear the Andrews Labor Government is “abandoning” agriculture R&D by systematically “whittling down research capabilities” after reports today Hamilton’s multi-million-dollar red meat centre is under a cloud of doubt. Labor has been on the warpath making cuts to agriculture jobs and R&D capabilities, with $47.8 million cut from the agriculture budget this year…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Victorian parliamentary committee hearings have exposed a savage $50 million cut to road safety in the Andrews Labor Government’s 2022-23 Victorian Budget. With more cuts on the way. Mr Walsh says the funds were slashed from the budget despite the state’s road toll increasing to…
