The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says sweeping gambling reforms announced by Premier Daniel Andrews are certain to cost jobs, see community sponsorship dry up and may force some clubs to close. In a campaign Mr Walsh says is so flawed and so far out of synch with the real…
DetailsThe Andrews Government continues to pile on the cost-of-living pain as annual council rates skyrocket. Victorians need an urgent solution as rate payers and hardworking families are being unfairly asked to foot the bill for Local Government funding inequities. The Andrews Government needs to provide Local Government with more funding to maintain service delivery and…
DetailsLeader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Daniel Andrews and his Messer of Roads Melissa Horne can no longer pretend they are doing “even a half-decent job” of protecting Victorians on regional roads. Mr Walsh says with the state’s highest road toll in seven years, and with more than…
DetailsDear Editor, Regional Victorians have been hit with another rude wake-up call in recent weeks as soaring annual rates notices land in letter boxes. Victorians need an urgent solution as rate payers and hardworking families are being unfairly asked to foot the bill for Local Government funding inequities. The Nationals have played a leading role…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says just when you thought Daniel Andrews had bled you dry, now he’s planning to tax you for sleeping. Mr Walsh says regional Victoria’s already battered tourism industry now faces a ‘bed tax’ in hotels and short stay rentals. He says Victorian Tourism Industry Council…
DetailsDear Editor, Victorians should not have to choose between keeping a roof over their head or feeding their family. But, under Labor, that’s the sad reality for too many Victorians. Recent PropTrack data shows that rents are rising at double the national rate in some parts of Victoria, while rental vacancies are alarmingly low. The…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says local football and netball clubs should have a crack at as much as $250,000 funding through the 2023-24 Country Football and Netball Program. Mr Walsh says the funding can be accessed through your local council and are designed to make more sport infrastructure developments…
DetailsHundreds of furious primary producers today rolled into Melbourne on tractors, prime movers and utes, urging the Andrews Government to re-think its energy plan that will destroy prime agricultural land. More than a thousand kilometres of prime land is set to be ripped up and replaced with 1600 steel towers 80m in height, carrying…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says ambulance times across his electorate are going from bad to almost terminal as people increasingly face life-threatening delays. Mr Walsh says in the few response categories which have improved, the changes are minimal, and they were already at “totally unacceptable” levels. He says the…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is urgently calling for an immediate reopening of the domestic firewood collection season. Mr Walsh says with the late and protracted winter – combined with the punitive energy taxes introduced by Daniel Andrews to shore up his bankrupt government – too many people in regional…
DetailsThe Latrobe Valley has been betrayed by the Labor Government as the reality of the decision to scrap the 2026 Commonwealth Games bites hard. Labor had promised a significant boost to housing in the area as part of the now doomed plan to bring the Games to regional Victoria. The cornerstone was an athletes’ village,…
DetailsDear Editor, Supermarket prices are continuing to bite all Victorians right when they can least afford it. Victorian families are struggling to put food on the table, punished by rising inflation and the Labor Government’s incompetence. With the average family this year now spending $1565 more on groceries, hardworking Victorian families are simply struggling to…
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