Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said the Victorian government inquiry examining the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Victoria’s tourism and major events sector must conduct hearings in northern Victoria. Mr Walsh said the region’s tourism industry has been smashed by lockdowns, snap border closures and the repeated failure of the Andrews Labor government’s hotel…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsDear Editor, Regional Victorians have been forgotten in the push towards zero road fatalities. One fatality is one too many, whether on country roads or roads in Melbourne. But new data shows country Victorians are being left behind in the push towards zero, with the regional road toll only falling about 20 per cent since…
DetailsIt’s a slap in the face to growers and industry for Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas to be standing on farm today patting herself on the back for delivering a handful of seasonal workers months after they were needed on Victorian farms. The long overdue arrival of seasonal workers on Victorian farms is too late for…
DetailsMember for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said if you think the Andrews Labor government is short-changing post COVID regional Victoria – and it is – you just have to look south to Melbourne and see where it’s all going wrong. Mr Walsh said at a government briefing today, after months of smoke and mirrors, major…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Shadow Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh said the Andrews Labor Government clearly wants to destroy Victoria’s native timber industry – and is “chopping down everyone and everything standing in its way” to do it. Mr Walsh said linked to this unicorn policy are the thousands of lives of those working directly in…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said reports released at the weekend, based on highly classified government documents leaked by a whistle-blower, “would sicken every Victorian”. Mr Walsh said for 65 vulnerable children, known to child protection, to have died in one year, “is a tragedy beyond belief”. He said the…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government has finally come clean: its sham plantation plan won’t deliver a single new tree for harvesting when Labor axes Victoria’s native timber industry in 2030. Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has back-tracked on Daniel Andrews’ claims Labor would replace native timber jobs with “jobs in planting, cutting down and hauling, and processing…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government is today patting itself on the back for forcing farmers and the meat processing industry to wait an extra six months for a seasonal workforce. Seasonal workers have finally arrived in Tasmania today as part of the quarantine deal that was announced by Victoria on January 22. A total of 100…
DetailsTHE Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has condemned a decision by the Victorian Government to leave a massive slice of Victoria without any immediate access to firewood collection. Mr Walsh this week told Parliament it is going to be a very cold winter this year for all the households in northern…
DetailsFarmers are still falling victim to the Andrews Labor Government’s fundamental misunderstanding of Victoria’s $15.9 billion agriculture sector. Labor’s Agriculture Minister claimed that government grants announced today will build accommodation to “support this season’s harvest workers”. But Shadow Minister for Agriculture Peter Walsh said this year’s harvest was over for many farmers and well underway…
DetailsThe Nationals Leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is encouraging everyone in rural and regional Victoria to participate in a new public inquiry into the use of school buses by the wider community. Mr Walsh said the Legislative Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee inquiry is focused on whether the use of school buses…
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