The Allan Labor Government has cold-heartedly stonewalled questions on how many Regional Development Victoria staff will lose their jobs. Amid redundancies, and fears 130 jobs will be lost, the Minister for Training and Skills Gayle Tierney showed a complete lack of respect for the dire situation. Regional Development Victoria has driven rural and regional economic development,…
Victoria is facing a crisis in its emergency health response system, with alarming reports revealing significant shortcomings in both the triple-0 service and the Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) service. The recent revelations regarding Victoria’s triple-0 cris are deeply troubling. Desperate Victorians have been forced to be on hold for up to six…
Dear Editor, Victoria’s health system is sick, and it’s been descending into a chronic long-term illness for a decade. That means the lives of Victorians are being put at risk, with horrendous delays highlighted in Parliament by The Nationals last week. One recent example is a cancer patient, who had an oncologist…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says submissions to the Inquiry into pig welfare in Victoria officially closed today but late submissions are just as important. Because he says it’s time to save the local pork industry’s bacon – and there’s no time to be wasted. Mr Walsh says…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says regional Victoria’s hospital system is becoming paralysed by another fatally flawed Labor government kneejerk ‘plan’. Mr Walsh says in a “frantic bid to boost frontline doctor numbers” across the state the Health Department is throwing thousands of dollars at them to do casual…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the writing is on the wall – Victoria’s Labor government is running out of gas and doing nothing but pumping up our already soaring energy bills. And Mr Walsh says Premier Jacinta Allan could not have picked a worse time to try and…
The Liberals and Nationals are calling on the Allan Government to urgently classify natural disaster areas in central Victoria’s flood-ravaged Loddon Shire. Leader of The Nationals, Peter Walsh, this morning toured areas near Wedderburn and Korong Vale, hit hardest by rain on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day morning. The area was inundated by…
Dear Editor, Premier Jacinta Allan’s track record is riddled with financial blunders, project mismanagement, and an alarming inability to rein in the escalating state debt. According to the latest budget projections released in recent days, Victoria’s net debt is expected to reach $177.8 billion by mid-2027. This reflects a rise of $6.4 billion compared to…
The Allan Labor Government has denied a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 amid the news the collapse of a key indigenous land council will lead to lengthy delays for development projects. Projects across a section of Victoria are facing delays of up to five months after the Bunurong Land Council was…
