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…
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…
DetailsRural and regional Victorians have been robbed in today’s Labor State Budget. Labor’s latest State Budget sends a clear message that this is a government that’s out of money and raiding the pockets of country families, farmers and small business owners. Nearly $285 million slashed from regional development and $61.3 million butchered from the agriculture…
DetailsA plan to slash funding to Victoria’s fight against Queensland fruit fly will make it harder for our farmers to fight off outbreaks of the destructive pest. The Andrews Labor Government has confirmed today it will slash fruit fly funds in the 2021-22 State Budget with just $5.3 million to be allocated to community grants…
DetailsMember for Murray Plains Peter Walsh has asked Victorians where in the world do people get to blow $7 billion – and counting – and no-one seems to be responsible? And the answer is Victoria. Or more accurately; he said, the Andrews Labor Government. Mr Walsh said the Metro Tunnel is nearing $4 billion over…
DetailsNationals Member for Murray Plains; Peter Walsh, says the Andrews Labor Government’s razor gang has again sliced money off the vital Mode Shift Incentive Scheme (MSIS); which will drive more transport trucks back onto crumbling country roads. Mr Walsh said Ports and Freight Minister Melissa Horne “snuck out” an announcement on Friday night; saying Labor…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has made it crystal clear regional Victoria needs to be treated much better in next week’s Victorian budget than it has been in recent years by the Andrews Labor Government. Mr Walsh said there are major infrastructure challenges across regional Victoria – and no realistic…
DetailsThe sickest people in the Bendigo region are waiting longer for ambulances to arrive than the same time last year. Victoria’s under-resourced and under pressure health system is spiralling further into crisis, with the latest response time data from Ambulance Victoria showing longer delays for Code 1 patients to be treated. In January-March this year,…
DetailsA government IT failure has gouged a $760 million hole in state revenue that could otherwise be invested back into Bendigo’s hospitals, schools and ambulance services. Secret documents, obtained under Freedom of Information, this week revealed that up to $760 million in fines have been written off by the Andrews Labor Government over 30 months…
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