Regional Victorians are set to cop further cuts to services and find it even harder to buy a home with today’s State Budget no more than a PR repair plan for Daniel Andrews. It confirmed record debt, higher taxes and more cost blowouts on Labor’s mismanaged major projects in Melbourne. The regional development and agriculture…
The Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is urging everyone in river communities to access the NSW Cross-Border Commissioner’s pandemic survey. Mr Walsh says the online survey – Have your say on border closures during the COVID-19 pandemic survey closes at 5pm tomorrow (April 29). He said the survey had already received a large volume…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Daniel Andrews has sunk to a new low as he prepares to start gambling with people’s lives. Mr Walsh said plans to add extra numbers to the OzLotto draw each Tuesday are all about filling the black holes in the state budget because of…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said today’s news of the rollback of Covid restrictions is an announcement that is “one of the most overdue decisions in living memory”. Mr Walsh said considering Victoria’s extraordinarily high vaccination rates there has been no excuse to drag out implementing changes The Nationals have…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is calling on people across his electorate to name its worst roads in a new campaign to identify the most dangerous hazards that are risking lives on our roads every day. Mr Walsh said the statewide search launched today by the Liberal Nationals, is a three-month…
Amendments to double the maximum fine for illegal farm invasion have been blocked in Victorian Parliament by Labor, Greens and Independent MPs. The Liberals and Nationals proposed two amendments to the Livestock Management Amendment (Animal Activism) Bill 2021 to double the maximum fine for individuals in line with New South Wales’ hefty penalty scheme –…
The Andrews Labor Government has walked away from a promise to establish a plantation nursery in East Gippsland today. It raises another red flag on catastrophic building and construction material shortages that will be generated when Labor bans native timber in 2030 – at the cost of tens of thousands of Victorian jobs. Announced in…
Regional Victorians are demanding a fair share of the state’s spend on hospitals, schools, infrastructure and mental health in the lead up to the State Budget on May 3. Restoring the funding that State Labor’s axed from regional development and agriculture in the past few years will also be crucial to ensure farmers and country…
A new plan to relieve fertiliser shortages by increasing production in Australia has highlighted the multi-billion-dollar economic windfall a shift in focus to bring manufacturing back to Victoria could deliver. Agripower Australian Limited confirmed this week it will ramp up production of fertiliser at its Queensland plant to cope with exploding global demand, generating 11,500…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is calling on people across his electorate to name its worst roads in a new campaign to identify the most dangerous hazards that are risking lives on our roads every day. Mr Walsh said the statewide search launched today by the Liberal Nationals, is a three-month…
