The Andrews Labor Government’s irresponsibility with Victorian taxpayers’ money has been exposed after it refused to pursue a $2 million debt from environmental activists. In February this year, former Minister for Agriculture Mary-Anne Thomas wrote to VicForests to discourage it from taking legal action to recover court costs from MyEnvironment activists. At the time, Ms…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has praised a “community victory’ in achieving a long overdue crossing for Twin Rivers Primary School. Mr Walsh joined the school council and parents and Campaspe Shire – all supported by the Riverine Herald – to campaign for a “proper and safe” school crossing on…
DetailsCommunity groups in Traralgon will have safe, purpose-built facilities after the Liberals and Nationals pledged $8 million to fully support a flood recovery project. Home to multiple sporting and community groups, the recreation reserve buildings were rendered uninsurable and uninhabitable after major flooding in June 2021. Despite repeated pleas for assistance, the groups were overlooked…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has set his sights on getting a “proper and safe” school crossing installed on Wilkinson Drive, outside the school’s main entrance. Mr Walsh says right now there is an exposed refuge in the middle of the street and nothing else. Yet he says hundreds of…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says it will come as no surprise to people in Campaspe Shire that parts of the Murray Valley Hwy have been named amongst Victoria’s most dangerous in a statewide survey. Mr Walsh says it joins roads such as the Echuca-Mitiamo Rd, Prairie-Rochester Rd and the…
DetailsToday is an important day for animal welfare in Victoria as the Parliament has ordered that Labor stop their extermination of Victoria’s brumby population. A motion in the Legislative Council of the Parliament has passed, with Coalition MPs and crossbench MPs voting in favour of cancelling current, and planned, aerial and ground shooting of brumbies.…
DetailsRegional Victorians deserve better care closer to home, which is what a Liberal and Nationals Government will deliver. Today’s announcement that the $35 billion Cheltenham to Box Hill rail line in Melbourne would be shelved means $8 billion injected into regional healthcare. Leader of The Nationals, Peter Walsh, says the commitment means brand-new hospitals in…
DetailsThe Nationals leader Peter Walsh says nine workers in the small East Gippsland town of Newmerella are the latest casualties, the human face, of Daniel Andrews’ war on Victoria’s timber harvesting industry. Mr Walsh says in a town of barely 300, nine jobs, nine families, nine incomes lost, is a bitter blow and ends 80…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government has set the stage for an ugly showdown between legal forestry workers and increasingly belligerent and reckless protestors by blocking urgent amendments to legislation covering the timber industry. The Nationals Leader Peter Walsh says his party wanted amendments to the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 to better protect workers. Mr Walsh…
DetailsAfter being snubbed by the Andrews Labor Government in a bid to host events for the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games, Shepparton will be included as a hub if a Liberal and Nationals Government is elected in November. Leader of The Nationals Peter Walsh and Shadow Minister for Sport Cindy McLeish were at Shepparton Sports Stadium…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government is determined to leave Victoria’s farmers stranded with its refusal to support The Nationals in legislating common-sense changes to better protect licenced water frontage and Australia’s $80 billion agriculture industry from threats such as the current risk of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The Nationals leader Peter Walsh says with Australian agriculture…
DetailsUnder questioning in State Parliament today, Victorian Minister for Agriculture Gayle Tierney refused to make public the plans of what the Andrews Labor Government is doing to ensure that Victoria is prepared for a Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak. The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region Melina Bath said Ms Tierney’s empty words…
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