The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has called on the state Labor Government to release the data and modelling underpinning its latest erratic restrictions in regional Victoria. Mr Walsh said given there had been no cases and just a few exposure sites in regional Victoria for months, regional communities should return…
Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said the Andrews Labor Government has made a further mockery of its handling of lockdowns 1, 2 and 3 with the shambles surrounding lockdown 4. Mr Walsh said the Liberal Nationals had plans to guide the state out of the pandemic but despite lockdown…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said the real story behind the Andrews Labor Government’s $460 million funding to try and repair the damage it has caused with its fourth lockdown since the pandemic started must be told. Mr Walsh said just like its overhyped business support fund (BSF); the latest…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains says the Andrews Labor Government has once again kicked regional events in Victoria to the curb. Mr Walsh said organisers of regional events have been waiting since last year’s November budget to apply to the $8 million allocated for the 2020-21 Regional Events Fund to help them…
Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh has joined the queue at Echuca Regional Health for his first dose of AstraZeneca. Although he said he almost doubled the number checking in for his shot because of the efficiency of the ERH frontline team. Mr Walsh said ERH had introduced a fast-track to get people from the…
Country people are at our wits end being dragged into the turmoil of Labor’s policy of statewide lockdowns to tackle outbreaks in Melbourne. While there continues to be no active cases of COVID-19 outside of Melbourne, today’s announcement of eased restrictions for regional Victoria is the news families, businesses, communities and the Liberal Nationals have…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says a Liberal Nationals government will use taxation as part of its plan for Victoria’s COVID recovery – by cutting some and scrapping others. Mr Walsh said Victoria needs a plan from people who actually understand business; how it works and what it needs when…
The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, joined hundreds of landholders from across regional Victoria on the steps of Parliament; rallying against the Andrews Labor Government’s flawed camping regulations. Mr Walsh said the rally came just days after the Victorian Nationals passed an urgent motion at the party’s state conference condemning the Andrews Government…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said he is still in “shocked disbelief at the sheer arrogance of the acting Premier and his head health honcho and their combined defence of Victoria’s never ending COVID mismanagement”. He said when rightly asked how he could defend Victoria’s contact tracing program, Professor Brett…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the “appalling reality” of the Victorian budget is not so much what is in it; but what it has left out. And he said the missing part of the budget – allegedly a budget for the whole state – is regional Victoria. “If you…