Opinion; by the Leader of The Nationals Peter Walsh Shepparton food processor SPC recently became the first Australian business to mandate COVID vaccination for all onsite staff and visitors. Announcing the commercial decision, SPC chair Hussein Rifai said: “we honestly saw very little other options but to take this step”. Protecting the integrity of the…
The Bendigo community can finally access a record of their COVID check-in history, after the Service Victoria smartphone application was quietly updated over the weekend. All Victorians are required to check-in to locations as part of our state’s efforts to stop the spread of COVID, but Victorians have been denied the opportunity to see their…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said this week we had finally been delivered the news every regional Victorian needed to hear – we’ve come out of lockdown. Sort of. But Mr Walsh said it was all too little, too late. He said with no active cases or exposure sites in…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says blatant, long-term contempt for regional Victoria in general, and our cross-border communities in particular, is fast approaching the point of no return. Mr Walsh said thousands of people, businesses and jobs have again been trapped in a straitjacket for no reason other than political…
Friday 6 August 2021 There’s only one response to today’s embarrassing revelations that sewerage at Wangaratta ultimately tested negative for COVID: release regional Victoria from lockdown. Announcing the snap statewide lockdown due to outbreaks in parts of Melbourne, Daniel Andrews claimed wastewater at Wangaratta “has pinged, if you like, firstly positive, then it went…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, says we need to implement rapid testing to help Victorians get back on their feet and prevent future statewide lockdowns. Mr Walsh said rapid antigen tests, which can produce a result in just 15 to 30 minutes, should be rolled out in high-risk settings including…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, said the Liberal Nationals have a plan to rescue Victorians from our crippling rolling lockdowns. Mr Walsh said the people must join with the Liberal Nationals for the economy to be rescued and to restore some kind of certainty and confidence in the future. He…
The Nationals leader and Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has conceded Daniel Andrews might finally be right about something when he says Victorians are doing a good job. But Mr Walsh said in all the Premier’s effusive carryon for the TV cameras each day; he manages to skip over some of the worst numbers…
