Positive plan needed to revive Mildura’s health workforce
Decades of health worker shortages in Mildura are crippling the region’s ability to get on top of long delays for surgery. Today in State Parliament, Health Minister Martin Foley was…
New push for regional worker visas to fill critical skills shortages
The Liberals and Nationals have launched a positive campaign to fill workforce shortages and bring thousands of skilled workers to regional Victoria. Victoria has requested just 750 skilled worker visas…
Labor’s building charge hike a huge blow
Member for Lowan Emma Kealy has called on the Andrews Labor Government to immediately intervene to revoke a massive planned fee increase set to hit the region’s builders. The Victorian…
Expensive desal costs Melbourne households
The Andrews Labor Government is forcing more costs onto Melburnians by ordering desal water when it is not needed. A 15GL water order will be placed in 2022-23 at a…
Unhappy campers: landholders dirty on Labor’s riverfront policy
The Euroa electorate is set to become ground zero for the Andrews Government’s unpopular changes to riverfront camping. Member for Euroa and Nationals deputy leader Steph Ryan said Labor had…
Puffing Billy far more reliable than North East trains
Nationals Member for Ovens Valley Tim McCurdy recently encountered the disastrous state of regional Victoria’s railway services when his usual trainline commute from Shepparton to Melbourne turned into a replacement…
Kids waiting five years for mental health support when change should start today
Too many Victorian kids suffering increasing levels of anxiety and emotional stress will continue to fall through the cracks, with State Labor confirming today a boost to mental health support…
Politics or science? Victorians deserve the truth on Labor’s timber shutdown
Workers, families and communities whose livelihoods rely on Victoria’s $7.3 billion native timber industry are demanding the truth on the State Labor Government’s 2030 ban. Serious questions are being asked…
New push for regional worker visas to fill critical skills shortages
The Liberals and Nationals have launched a positive campaign to fill workforce shortages and bring thousands of skilled workers to regional Victoria. Victoria has requested just 750 skilled worker visas…
Derailed rail project anything but ‘on track’, Minister
The claim from Minister for Transport Infrastructure Jacinta Allan that the Murray Basin Rail Project is ‘ahead of schedule’ has left regional Victorians in absolute disbelief. The Murray Basin Rail…
Statement on Delburn wind farm – Danny O’Brien
Statement on Delburn wind farm “It seems incredible to me that just days after a significant Supreme Court decision in the Bald Hills wind farm case that the Minister…
Time to get serious on Traralgon bypass
The Nationals Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien has called on the Andrews Labor Government to progress works on the long-waited Traralgon bypass. Mr O’Brien expressed concern that while talk…