Wednesday 21 September 2016 Daniel Andrews must allow full representation for Northern Victoria The Victorian Supreme Court today handed down its decision in a case against Daniel Andrews after Labor prevented the swearing in of The Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Luke O’Sullivan. The Supreme Court judgment found the court did not have the power…
Tuesday 20th September 2016 Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh has invited the panel of the All Party Inquiry into Autism Services to offer a public hearing in the Murray Plains electorate. Mr Walsh said the inquiry is looking into the availability and adequacy of services for people with Autism…
Tuesday 20th September 2016 Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh is supporting the 2016-17 Victorian Young Achievers Awards by calling for nominations from the Murray Plains electorate. “We have so many very talented and community minded young people in our community who deserve to be acknowledged for their efforts ”…
Tuesday 20th September 2016 Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh is encouraging community groups including sports clubs local councils and not-for-profit groups to take advantage of the $10 million Community Shade Grant Program which is now open. The program provides funding to construct new shade purchase portable shade plant a…
Monday 19 September 2016 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor Liberal and Nationals MPs successfully instigated an inquiry into the price of regional fuels last week in State Parliament. Country people dig deep every time they fuel up at the bowser more so than their metropolitan counterparts and even other nearby towns. Anecdotally transport costs…
19th September 2016 Small businesses across the Murray Plains electorate are being forced to endure again the damaging impact of the Andrews Labor Government decision to declare two new public holidays on Easter Sunday and the day before the AFL Grand Final (30 September 2016). Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter…
Monday 19 September 2016 The $9.7 billion leasing of the Port of Melbourne will see more than $970 million for transport infrastructure delivered to regional and rural Victoria. The Liberal-Nationals fought to secure a 10 per cent slice of the port sale proceeds for investment in transport infrastructure in country areas despite strong opposition from…
Friday 16th September 2016 A future Liberal-Nationals Government will remove Daniel Andrews and Roz Ward’s much maligned Safe Schools program and replace it with an initiative that sends a strong message of mutual respect and anti-bullying Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said he firmly believes that Victorian schools…
15 September 2016 Adjournment – Business of the House Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – I rise to support the manager of opposition business in his opposition to the adjournment of the house. In doing that I suppose we can give a bit of latitude to the members for Essendon and Macedon for their contributions because they are…
15 September 2016 Second reading Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – I move: That the words ‘later this day’ be omitted with the view of inserting in their place the words ‘the message from the Legislative Council proposing a joint sitting has been dealt with’. Acting Speaker Carbines we have had this debate a few times and I…
