Budget must deliver for regional communities
Increased spending for health, roads, housing and community infrastructure in regional Victoria must form part of Tuesday’s State Budget to ensure Lowan communities get their fair share. Member for Lowan…
Covid restrictions finally ease two years on
Nationals Member for Ovens Valley Tim McCurdy is relieved to hear that Covid restrictions have finally been rolled back but admits this should have occurred long ago as we progress…
Secrecy another red flag for Labor’s second drug injecting room
Plans for a drug injecting room in the Melbourne CBD must not go ahead while delays continue to plague a long overdue report investigating effects on drug harm and community…
Jobs and the environment are the winners of Waste from Energy
The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath says today’s energy from waste announcement for Latrobe Valley’s Maryvale Mill is a much-needed boost which is great for jobs and…
Disastrous building, construction material shortages loom unless 2030 ban reversed
The Andrews Labor Government has walked away from a promise to establish a plantation nursery in East Gippsland today. It raises another red flag on catastrophic building and construction material…
Additional train services just another Labor mirage without the rolling stock to deliver it
Additional passenger train services on the Shepparton and Warrnambool lines will remain a far-off dream if next week’s State Budget fails to invest in the rolling stock required to deliver…
Reports call out the ‘revolting’ neglect of Victoria’s roads under Labor
Victoria’s roads network is in a ‘revolting’ state of disrepair, according to the people who are risking their lives driving them every day. Reports today have slammed the ongoing neglect…
Bath demands Cape to Cape Project Funding
The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath has called for funding to be provided in the upcoming budget Victorian state budget for the Cape to Cape Resilience Project.…
Local emergency services should feature in budget
Gippsland East Nationals MP, Tim Bull is hoping to see some key projects ticked off in next week’s State Budget. “There is some important infrastructure that needs to be…
May State Budget must deliver regional Victoria our fair share
Regional Victorians are demanding a fair share of the state’s spend on hospitals, schools, infrastructure and mental health in the lead up to the State Budget on May 3. Restoring…
Billion-dollar windfall for Queensland signals critical need to bring manufacturing home to Victoria
A new plan to relieve fertiliser shortages by increasing production in Australia has highlighted the multi-billion-dollar economic windfall a shift in focus to bring manufacturing back to Victoria could deliver.…
No new trams, but Labor’s already managed to blow the budget by $370 million
Victorians are owed an explanation on a nearly $400 million cost blowout in the past 12 months on a long-awaited order of new trams for the ancient Melbourne fleet. The…