The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Cohuna has been dealt another body blow by the Allan Labor government after it was overlooked – again – in funding for an urgently needed childcare centre. Mr Walsh says businesses and families in Cohuna have been crying out for a childcare centre…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, is encouraging communities across his electorate to nominate one – or more – of the many hardworking and dedicated senior volunteers for the upcoming Victorian Senior of the Year Awards. Nominations are now open for the 2024 awards, recognising senior Victorians who share their…
DetailsDear Editor, I am writing on behalf of three constituents – from Kyabram, Echuca and Piangil – who are the latest in a long line who have individually requested my intervention because of police inaction to their pleas for assistance in escalating disputes with neighbours. Disputes being just as increasingly consigned to the too-hard-basket by…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Allan Labor government has clearly designated Echuca as its V/Line graveyard. Mr Walsh says the government has now chosen Echuca as a dumping ground for carriages it obviously doesn’t want but just as obviously has no idea what to do with them.…
DetailsMore than a third of ratepayers across Victoria will be slugged with increases higher than the mandated capped amount – and a financially inept Labor must take the blame. As local government funding dries up and costs rise, homeowners will be left to pay the price. The Allan Labor Government continues to fail…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the Allan Labor government’s crippling record debt is now putting lives on the line. And Mr Walsh says if Premier Jacinta Allan’s latest plan to rip countless millions of dollars out of the regional hospital system goes ahead people will end up paying…
DetailsDear Editor, Former Premier Daniel Andrews doesn’t deserve a King’s Birthday honour, and I am looking forward to presenting the Governor-General with a petition calling for it to be revoked. The decision to start a petition against the inappropriate and unjustified awarding of a Companion of the Order of Australia wasn’t taken lightly…
DetailsThe Companion of the Order of Australia awarded to former Premier Daniel Andrews must be revoked. Today, I have launched a petition calling for the support of Victorians to have the inappropriate and unjustified honour removed by the Governor General. Mr Andrews failed Victorians, and by extension Australians, with his handling of the…
DetailsThe Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has just glossed over “a decade of Labor incompetence, mismanagement, waste and culpability” in a bid to cover up her failure to support regional Victoria. Mr Walsh says regional Victorians make up a quarter of the state’s population but…
DetailsIn its latest budget, the Allan Labor government’s betrayal of regional Victoria is now complete. On May 7 Ms Allan had the gall to issue a 1700-word media release trumpeting how her government’s budget will offset the cost-of-living crisis we are all facing. In her own words: “The Victorian Budget 2024/25 is firmly focused on…
DetailsNew data confirms people are leaving Melbourne in favour of regional centres, yet the Allan Labor Government continues to shortchange those living beyond the metropolitan boundary. The Regional Movers Index highlights Geelong and Ballarat as growing destinations for city movers in a shift that is now significantly more than a Covid trend. It…
DetailsThe Allan Labor Government has abandoned the needs of regional Victoria, doing nothing to explain an alarming disparity in spending in city and country areas. Under heavy questioning at a Public Accounts and Estimate Committee hearing on Regional Development Victoria, Minister for Regional Development, Gayle Tierney, failed to provide genuine answers on the worrying…
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