The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Allan Labor government has deliberately isolated the people who would most benefit from its “alleged motor vehicle registration discount”. Mr Walsh says the only way to access the rebate is via the Service Vic app or the government website. He says that immediately…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is encouraging local multicultural organisations to apply for funding through the Multicultural Festivals and Events Grant Program. Mr Walsh says the program provides grants of as much as $50,000 for organisations to host cultural festivals and events. Funding which he says could make a significant…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has condemned ongoing plans to add Kow Swamp to the National Heritage Listing. Mr Walsh says this “unchecked, headlong charge” down a path of drastically restricting public access to, and usage of, significant resources such as Kow Swamp is being done “at our peril”. He…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, wants an immediate meeting with Victorian Transport Minister Gabrielle Williams following news a passenger fell from a V/Line train at Pyramid Hill. Mr Walsh says V/Line – and the Allan Labor government – have kept the latest failure on the Swan Hill line under wraps for…
DetailsLocal learning and employment networks want to continue delivering “high-impact, cost-effective outcomes to ensure all young Victorians are supported into education and employment”. And can’t achieve that if the Allan Labor government does not commit to a new three-year LLEN contract to provide certainty for communities, schools, and students across Victoria. Last week…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says V/Line services across his electorate have run off the rails – again. Mr Walsh says the latest figures released by V/Line show the Echuca and Swan Hill lines are the worst performing in the state when it comes to getting passengers to their destinations on…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Allan Labor government has achieved its “ideological dream” and removed the word agriculture from public view. Mr Walsh says it started with the independent Department of Environment and Primary Industries being sucked into the mega Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. Now,…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh is appealing to the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action to repeat its public firewood collection from Barmah Forest in September last year. Mr Walsh said that day saw thousands of tonnes of flood-damaged timber made available to hundreds of locals for heating and, in…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says homes and businesses using the compressed natural gas network across Swan Hill and Kerang will be forced onto either bottled LPG or electricity next year. Mr Walsh says Solstice Energy, which operates the 10 compressed networks in regional Victoria, will be decommissioning them in 2026…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe Nationals member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has been invited to join the Victorian government’s dedicated new Drought Response Taskforce as the state sinks deeper into the current drought crisis. Mr Walsh said when he was approached by Premier Jacinta Allan to join her taskforce, he had no hesitation in accepting. “This…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Allan Labor government’s latest budget is like the proverbial lucky dip. Lucky for Premier Allan, he says, with your taxes up to $50 billion – and that’s a whopping rise of 173 per cent since Labor took office. So Mr Walsh says reach…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has labelled the new Emergency Services Levy as a land tax by stealth – targeting the farming community in particular – and as “socialism gone mad in Victoria”. He said the new ‘levy’ is the Allan Labor government “conniving to push through an unprecedented and deliberate…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says senior secondary students from his electorate have the “incredible opportunity” of a fully funded trip to Gallipoli to gain a hands-on and very up close and personal understanding of the Anzac story. Mr Walsh is encouraging students in Years 9-12 to enter the 2025 Premier’s…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has this morning told the Victorian Parliament there is $200 million of federal funding available in Round Three of the Disaster Ready Fund – and it could help change the future of flood-ravaged Rochester. But Mr Walsh says this funding – to establish a housing resilient…
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