The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy is concerned at a decision made late last night to suspend maternity services at the hospital in Horsham. The decision means that local expectant mothers will be forced to travel an extra two and a half hours to Ballarat or another regional hospital to give birth. Ms Kealy…
A $219.5 million boost for innovation and research in Australia’s forestry sector today is a badly needed vote of confidence in Victorian jobs that State Labor is hellbent on destroying. Announcing the funds today, the Federal Liberals and Nationals will create jobs and invest in new, sustainable technologies in an effort to fix long delays…
Nationals Member for Ovens Valley Tim McCurdy is frustrated to hear that recently in Parliament a city Labor MP labelled our crumbling country roads as “imagined fantasies”. The accusation about country roads in Victoria was made during parliamentary debate in a tirade about road safety by eastern metropolitan Labor MP Vicki Ward. Mr…
In Parliament earlier this week, Nationals Member for Ovens Valley Tim McCurdy requested the Minister for Environment visit the Warby Ovens National Park near Wangaratta to witness firsthand the irreversible damage caused by the Victorian Governments planned burn. Mr McCurdy said in Parliament, “I recently met with a local resident whose property borders along…