Monday 17 June 2024 Dear Editor, The past weekend should have been a huge wake-up call to an Allan Labor Government intent on dismantling local regional health services. “Don’t mess with Mansfield!” was the passionate message to Labor from one resident who attended the 1000 strong rally to fight looming cuts and…
DetailsFriday 16 June 2024 The Allan Labor Government has admitted health services will suffer a funding cut, in a cruel blow to regional patients and communities. Minister for Health, Mary-Anne Thomas, confirmed at least 20 health services across Victoria will have their funding slashed – reportedly by up to 30 per cent. …
DetailsFriday 14 June 2024 Minister for Racing, Anthony Carbines, has clearly missed out on landing the big fish he was desperately chasing. The absence of former AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan was notable as Racing Victoria announced two new board members. Racing Victoria also stated it believes Mr McLachlan will not be…
DetailsWednesday 12 June 2024 The Companion of the Order of Australia awarded to former Premier Daniel Andrews must be revoked. Today, I have launched a petition calling for the support of Victorians to have the inappropriate and unjustified honour removed by the Governor General. Mr Andrews failed Victorians, and by extension Australians,…
DetailsWednesday 12 June 2024 Dear Editor, The Allan Labor Government’s $400 School Saving Bonus is blatantly inequitable and its unfairness really hits home for regional Victorians. All students in government schools are immediately approved to receive the bonus, yet incredibly those in low-fee Catholic and independent schools miss out. There’s a…
DetailsWednesday 5 June 2024 Basin communities across northern Victoria are urgently calling for more time to submit feedback on the Allan Labor Government’s ‘Planning Our Basin Future Together’ prospectus. Farmers and irrigators have been given until June 16 to provide feedback and engage in community discussion, placing an unrealistic deadline on impacted communities…
DetailsMonday 3 June 2024 Dear Editor, Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for regional Victorians, along comes another brutal set of numbers. Revelations this week that road and rail projects across the state have blown out by a staggering $12.7 billion since December are a sledgehammer blow. To…
DetailsNew data confirms people are leaving Melbourne in favour of regional centres, yet the Allan Labor Government continues to shortchange those living beyond the metropolitan boundary. The Regional Movers Index highlights Geelong and Ballarat as growing destinations for city movers in a shift that is now significantly more than a Covid trend. It…
DetailsThursday 30 May 2024 The silence rolls on, more than two years after greyhound racing stalled at the Cranbourne track and left a key part of the industry in limbo. There is still no direction from the Allan Labor Government on future plans for the track, with uncertainty continuing at Parliament in a…
DetailsTuesday 28 May 2024 State funding for the proposed new National Vietnam Veterans’ Museum in Phillip Island is uncertain after a stunning funding admission by the Allan Labor Government. Veterans’ Minister, Natalie Suleyman, has conceded funding for the building of the new museum in Newhaven was removed from this year’s Budget. Under…
DetailsMonday 27 May 2024 Dear Editor, The recent State Budget was a terrible blow to regional Victorians, with so much pain in the detail. We, in regional Victoria, make up 25 per cent of the state’s population, yet our regional communities have only been allocated just two per cent of the Allan…
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