The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has been appointed to a water security taskforce to advise the Victorian government on the state’s long-term water security. Minister for Water Gayle Tierney today released the government’s Water Security Plan, which investigates how to maintain Victoria’s affordable water supply as our population grows. However, Ms…
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…
Dear Editor, The Allan Labor Government’s regional housing plan simply doesn’t add up. Announced late last week amid a flurry of spin, it is nothing but a missed opportunity – and basic mathematics proves it. Labor spruiked it will deliver 1300 social and affordable homes across regional Victoria through the $1 billion…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says our worsening employment rate can be relieved overnight – because there are plenty of jobs in regional Victoria. Mr Walsh says when the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its latest figures this week the national unemployment rate had inched its way up to…
Regional Victoria’s voice in Parliament will be stronger after 11 members for The Nationals were sworn in at Parliament House today. The Nationals now represent the electorates of Mildura, Morwell and Shepparton along with Murray Plains, Ovens Valley, Gippsland South, Lowan, Euroa and Gippsland East in the lower house and the Eastern Victoria and Northern…
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, said evidence being forced out of the Andrews Labor government by freedom of information requests is setting off alarm bells about its Hotel Quarantine Take Three strategy. Mr Walsh said new documents reveal the Andrews Labor government failed to properly fund chief health officer Professor…
MR WALSH: The other matter I want to raise is the fact that those in the dairy industry in northern Victoria are very perplexed that John Brumby has been appointed to actually head up the task force to do the dairy plan for the future. John Brumby was the architect of the north–south pipeline, the…
