Thursday 9th February 2017 Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – I would just like to inform the house of some changes to the shadow ministry. I welcome the member for Lowan to the shadow ministry and she will have the portfolios of mental health consumer affairs and seniors. The member for Gippsland East will continue with the…
DetailsThursday 9th February 2017 Leader of the Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh delivered a passionate and at times angry contribution in parliament this week expressing his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the victims and the families of the Bourke Street Mall tragedy. The effects on those families will live with them forever…
DetailsThursday 9th February 2017 Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – Despite the urging from the member for Bendigo East we do not support this motion and we will not be supporting this motion. I think the manager of opposition business put the case very very clearly around precedents of law and history as to why this motion should…
DetailsThursday 9th February 2017 Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – Despite the urging from the member for Bendigo East we do not support this motion and we will not be supporting this motion. I think the manager of opposition business put the case very very clearly around precedents of law and history as to why this motion should…
DetailsWednesday 8 February 2017 The Resources Legislation Amendment (Fracking Ban) Bill 2016 will pass Parliament. In 2012 the Liberal Nationals Government announced a gas moratorium and in 2015 we committed to an extension of the existing onshore gas moratorium until 30 June 2020. The Liberal Nationals support the ban on fracking. Indeed fracking has…
DetailsWednesday 8th February 2017 The Sir John Gorton Swimming Pool Precinct in Kerang and the Cohuna Bowls Club Inc have been successful in securing funding from the Sustainable Water Fund – Community Sport and Recreation Program. Leader of the Nationals and Member for Murray Plains said the Kerang Swimming Pool Precinct had been awarded $50…
DetailsWednesday 8th February 2017 Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – I rise to make a contribution on the Resources Legislation Amendment (Fracking Ban) Bill 2016. In starting off can I just remind the minister at the table the Minister for Energy Environment and Climate Change – there were two ministers at the table – that it was actually a previous…
DetailsTuesday 7 February 2017 Daniel Andrews under-funded and over-promised on grants offered to farmers hit by the dairy crisis. Shadow Minister for Agriculture Peter Walsh said just 332 of Victoria’s 4200 dairy farmers received funding from the Dairy Development Grants Scheme before the grants ran out. “Victoria’s dairy farmers were handed scraps off the table…
DetailsTuesday 6th February 2017 Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh is encouraging athletes across the Murray Plains electorate to apply for a grant through the latest round of the Athlete Pathway Travel Grants Program. Mr Walsh said the grants program provides grants to help Victorian athletes particularly those in rural…
DetailsTuesday 6th February 2017 Tackling the scourge of violent youth crime and improving community safety would be the focus of a $50 million “˜Police in Schools’ program to be introduced by an elected Liberal Nationals government. Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said the program would complement the Liberal Nationals…
DetailsTuesday 7 February 2017 Agriculture Minister Jaala Pulford has failed to explain why the Andrews Government refuses to stand up for thousands of jobs in Victoria’s forestry industry. In Parliament’s Upper House today Nationals members Luke O’Sullivan and Melina Bath directly asked Ms Pulford why Labor’s Forestry Industry Taskforce which the Premier said would…
DetailsTuesday 7th February 2017 Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – I rise as Leader of The Nationals to support the motion and support the Leader of the Opposition the Premier the Deputy Premier and all members of this house in expressing my heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the victims and the families of this absolute tragedy that occurred…
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