Local jobs, projects and services in regional Victoria are under a cloud after $283 million was cut from the regional development spend in the past 12 months. Questioned at Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) last night about the massive budget black hole, Labor’s Regional Development Minister Mary-Anne Thomas struggled to answer basic questions on…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says the “appalling reality” of the Victorian budget is not so much what is in it; but what it has left out. And he said the missing part of the budget – allegedly a budget for the whole state – is regional Victoria. “If you…
Rural and regional Victorians have been robbed in today’s Labor State Budget. Labor’s latest State Budget sends a clear message that this is a government that’s out of money and raiding the pockets of country families, farmers and small business owners. Nearly $285 million slashed from regional development and $61.3 million butchered from the agriculture…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has made it crystal clear regional Victoria needs to be treated much better in next week’s Victorian budget than it has been in recent years by the Andrews Labor Government. Mr Walsh said there are major infrastructure challenges across regional Victoria – and no realistic…
Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said Swan Hill has been robbed again – with not a single cent in the Victorian Budget for the urgently needed new hospital. Mr Walsh said that “it’s a slap in the face from a Victorian government who are squandering billions in cost overruns and budget blowouts on massive…
Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh has congratulated Swan Hill Specialist School on receiving $1.645 million in the Victorian Government Budget for vital upgrades. Mr Walsh said this was a tribute to the whole school community – staff, parents and students – as well as generous support from the wider community who kept continued pressure…
Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said Kyabram P-12’s $6.75 million allocation in the Victorian Government’s Budget is a win for the school and a great start towards the total funding required. Mr Walsh said school council chairman Dale Denham and his whole team should be congratulated on their efforts in obtaining funding. He said…
The Andrews Labor Government has outspent itself with a city-focussed State Budget that delivers little for regional Victorians. Country people’s resilience has been stretched to the limit this year, first by catastrophic bushfires and then two waves of coronavirus shutdowns that have blown a hole in once thriving local economies. Today’s State Budget doesn’t deliver…
Dear Editor, Next week’s 2020-21 Victorian State Budget is a critical chance to lay out a plan to restore Victorians’ lives and livelihoods. The lessons of 2020 have created unique opportunities for regional Victoria. Enforced working from home has showed us it’s possible to have a job in the city, while living in the country.…
3 May 2016 Second reading Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) – I rise to make a contribution on the Appropriation (2016–2017) Bill 2016. The way I would couch this budget is as the budget of broken promises. The Premier was on the record unequivocally saying there would be no new taxes and no new tax increases under his…
