State Budget 2024-25
Jacinta Allan’s first budget has confirmed that Labor can’t manage money and regional Victorians are paying the price. Households already grappling with the cost of living crisis have been…
Annabelle Cleeland – Education promises broken in brutal budget
10 May 2024 Local residents will continue to pay the price for the Allan Labor Government’s failure to manage money and the state’s increasing debt levels, with this week’s…
Emma Kealy – Mental health snubbed in bleak budget
Friday 10 May 2024 Mental health has been cruelly ignored in a bleak State Budget that fails to support Victoria’s most vulnerable. The Allan Labor Government has deferred…
Kim O’Keeffe – Health crisis raised by local, health workers exhausted and overwhelmed
Thursday 09 May 2024 The ambulance ramping that GV Health experienced this week, which left ten ambulances queued for up to nine hours and the region without available ambulances…
Tim Bull – Veterans snubbed in cold-hearted Budget
Thursday 9 May 2024 The Victorian veterans community has been treated appallingly in the State Budget, suffering a funding cut of most 40 per cent. In a double…
Danny O’Brien – Labor’s budget still failing our roads
Wednesday 8 May 2024 The Allan Labor Government continues to fail Victorian motorists as the shocking state of our roads deteriorates further following a 90 per cent reduction in…
Melina Bath – Hands off our public land
Friday 3 May 2024 The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria, Melina Bath, has taken the Allan Labor Government to task over its neglect of public land across regional Victoria…
Annabelle Cleeland: Letter to the editor – Hands off our hospitals
2 May 2024 Significant cuts will be made to Victoria’s health system in the upcoming State Budget, with regional healthcare providers being particularly vulnerable due to the Labor Government’s…
Danny O’Brien – Labor’s own highlight the sad state of our roads
Thursday 2 May 2024 The Allan Labor Government’s own MPs and agencies are now highlighting the poor state of our roads, with a government road builder forced to tender…
Melina Bath – Con Games: Labor’s contempt for regional Victorians laid bare
Wednesday 1 May 2024 The Allan Labor Government’s blatant refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary inquiry into Victoria’s cancellation of the Commonwealth Games has come under fire from The…
Jade Benham – Local government cost inquiry launched
Wednesday 1 May 2024 A Parliamentary inquiry into local government funding and services has kicked off this week, with residents and local councils encouraged to make submissions. …
Peter Walsh – Cost-shifting inquiry launched: Residents and councils urged to participate
Wednesday 1 May 2024 The Parliamentary Inquiry into Local Government funding and services has commenced, with local governments and members of the community urged to participate. Shadow Minister…