Rules on roadside firewood collection must be changed to allow Victorians to be part of clean-up efforts from last week’s storms, while ensuring a valuable resource doesn’t go to waste. About 17,500 homes and businesses remain without power today, six days since severe storms tore through much of the state, tragically claiming the lives of…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says as Victoria’s hospital waitlist crisis continues to worsen, some heartbreaking cases are coming through the front door of his electorate office desperately seeking help. And Mr Walsh said this was not just isolated problems, Nationals members across the state are seeing similar tragedies unfolding.…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsLeader 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsMember 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…
DetailsCountry 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsFarmers fear they will be exposed to safety risks of unattended campfires and the burden of cleaning up waste left by campers under Labor’s proposed changes to camping on licenced river frontages. The changes will see landholders essentially forced to act as park rangers and campground caretakers with the responsibility of managing and cleaning up…
DetailsMore Victorians will be able to build the home of their dreams under a Liberal Nationals plan to increase land availability by fast-tracking planning approvals. The plan will deliver 50,000 new lots of land across rural and regional Victorian councils, excluding areas in the Melbourne urban-growth boundary and the City of Greater Geelong. Announcing the…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says rural and regional Victorians have been robbed in this week’s Labor State Budget. Mr Walsh says the Andrews Labor Government’s latest budget sends a clear message this is a government that’s out of money and raiding the pockets of country families, farmers and small…
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