The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said after three regional meetings, Premier Jacinta Allan’s drought response taskforce might have got its solutions package “about half right”. Mr Walsh, who was invited onto the taskforce by the Premier, said her announcement funding to the drought declared shires would see farming council rates cut…
The Nationals member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has been invited to join the Victorian government’s dedicated new Drought Response Taskforce as the state sinks deeper into the current drought crisis. Mr Walsh said when he was approached by Premier Jacinta Allan to join her taskforce, he had no hesitation in accepting. “This…
The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Allan Labor government’s latest budget is like the proverbial lucky dip. Lucky for Premier Allan, he says, with your taxes up to $50 billion – and that’s a whopping rise of 173 per cent since Labor took office. So Mr Walsh says reach…
The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has labelled the new Emergency Services Levy as a land tax by stealth – targeting the farming community in particular – and as “socialism gone mad in Victoria”. He said the new ‘levy’ is the Allan Labor government “conniving to push through an unprecedented and deliberate…
The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says senior secondary students from his electorate have the “incredible opportunity” of a fully funded trip to Gallipoli to gain a hands-on and very up close and personal understanding of the Anzac story. Mr Walsh is encouraging students in Years 9-12 to enter the 2025 Premier’s…
The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has this morning told the Victorian Parliament there is $200 million of federal funding available in Round Three of the Disaster Ready Fund – and it could help change the future of flood-ravaged Rochester. But Mr Walsh says this funding – to establish a housing resilient…
The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, reckons Victoria is on a fast track to anarchy because the justice system is so badly broken. Mr Walsh says in Echuca this morning a business owner armed himself with a baseball bat to chase a shoplifter. Within an hour of him posting a video…
The Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the staggering $373,000 the average Victorian is being slugged in taxes to buy a house and land package has finally revealed the full extent of the Allan Labor government’s “unprecedented financial incompetence”. Mr Walsh says anyone buying a new house in this state will now spend…
The Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has dismissed the Allan Labor government’s response to the flood inquiry as a callous example of a citycentric government which “couldn’t care less about regional Victoria and regional Victorians”. Mr Walsh says not only is the Allan Labor government’s response “inadequate in the extreme” it looks even…
The Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is urging Returned and Services League (RSL) sub-branches across his electorate to apply for funding to assist with restoring community war memorials, avenues of honour and capital works to upgrade RSL facilities. Mr Walsh says grants of up to $30,000 are now available to restore war memorials…
