Fire inquiry findings cannot wait ‘til 2024
Important recommendations from a review of the 2019/20 bushfires that ravaged the region will not be acted on by the Andrews Labor Government until 2024, leaving East Gippslanders to endure…
Indigenous knowledge is key to plan burns
The Nationals Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien says regular planned burns in our forest and Crown land is critical to save lives and the environment. “Planned burns are…
Another blow to local health care as Horsham maternity services suspended
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…
Timber innovation boost a small vote of confidence for at-risk Victorian jobs
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.…
City Labor MP snubs crumbling country roads
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…
Vic Governments planned burn backfires
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…
Community demands real time lead air monitoring in LV
The release of a timeline for the Chunxing Corporation’s Used Lead Acid Battery (ULAB) project has triggered community concerns about lead emission monitoring in the Latrobe Valley. The Andrews Government…
Labor backs dingoes and foxes to save ecosystem
A Labor dominated committee has handed down an ‘Inquiry into ecosystem decline in Victoria’, recommending the reintroduction of dingoes and the banning of 1080 baits that are used to control…
Regional Victoria set to welcome Melburnians in droves
Fresh ABS data has shown Melburnians have abandoned the city in record numbers with metro population falling by 60,500 in the 12 months to 30 June 2021 – a crash…
Minister has bet each way on the future of Shepparton’s super school
The Education Minister has assured Parliament the old school sites of Mooroopna Secondary College, McGuire College and Wanganui Park Secondary College will not be sold off. The news came just…
Push for regional work visas to ease critical worker shortages
The Liberals and Nationals have recently launched a new positive campaign set to fill the workforce shortages and bring thousands of skilled workers to regional Victoria. Mr McCurdy said,…
FOI documents expose State Labor’s 18-month stealth war to end native timber
Freedom of Information (FOI) documents have today exposed the secret 18-month campaign by State Labor to axe thousands of Victorian jobs in the timber industry. The FOI documents, finally released…