After enduring eight years of freight chaos under the Andrews Labor Government, Victorians will get a reliable freight network under an elected Liberals and Nationals Government. Instead of ignoring the issues within the state’s supply chain, Victoria needs a Government that listens to industry stakeholders and makes meaningful commitments to fix the issues that…
DetailsVictorians with a disability got little explanation today for a $15 million “error” in the State Budget papers that saw funding “incorrectly allocated” to the wrong portfolio area. In a bumbling and confused appearance at Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) today, Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers Anthony Carbines showed he is not across…
DetailsA former Chief-of-Staff to Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been covertly appointed to lead the Andrews Labor Government’s radical destruction of Victoria’s sustainable native timber industry. Late on Friday – under the cover of a Federal Election – Ben Hubbard, also formerly a senior adviser to Labor Premier Steve Bracks, was announced as the…
DetailsFamilies in Mildura and north-west Victoria will miss out on extra services addressing the devastating toll of perinatal anxiety and depression, which the Victorian Minister has cruelly labelled as “no longer required”. The 2022-23 State Budget includes $60 million in cuts from mental health programs, with funding discontinued for services addressing perinatal anxiety and depression,…
DetailsRegional hospitals are at breaking point and unable to meet the health needs of sick Victorians, with staff shortages and capacity pressures seeing Mildura become the latest to call a ‘Code Yellow’. A Code Yellow emergency is declared when a hospital is overwhelmed and can’t meet demand. Albury-Wodonga Health and Northeast Health in Wangaratta were…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government’s admitted there’s “less funding allocated” to regional development in this year’s State Budget despite many country businesses saying they’re still struggling to recover from the pandemic. The 2022-23 State Budget confirmed Labor will strip more funding from regional development which take the total cuts to $363 million since 2020-21 (from $539.2…
DetailsVictorian farmers face less service delivery after the Agriculture Minister refused to guarantee today the Labor Government won’t make more job cuts at Agriculture Victoria. Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas raised red flags this morning at Parliament’s Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) by confirming the government was still on the warpath for “savings” with staffing…
DetailsThe Nationals Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien says Gippsland dental health wait lists will continue to blow out following a Labor Government health cut. Mr O’Brien was speaking in Parliament in response to a $24 million cut to the dental health program in the Andrews Labor Government’s 2022-2023 State Budget announced last week.…
DetailsRural and regional communities will have the opportunity to tap into a $30-million fund to help reinvigorate their town’s main streets under a Victorian Liberal Nationals Government. The Liberal Nationals’ Local Shopping Strip Recovery Plan will support communities to recover and rebuild by providing grants of up to $500,000 to revive shopping strips through initiatives…
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The Nationals Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien is calling for answers on when communities impacted by the storm events and subsequent prolonged power outages in June and October last year will be consulted as part of a formal review into the electricity framework. Speaking in Parliament Mr O’Brien said that while he had…
DetailsRegional train passengers are again wearing the consequences of decades of neglect of V/Line, with a statewide communications outage forcing the entire network to a standstill today. Commuters deserve a full explanation of what caused the ‘communications fault’ that suspended all train services for 90 minutes, including to Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Gippsland and Seymour. Today’s…
DetailsDear Editor, CFA stations at Strathbogie, Rochester and Myrtleford are among those to miss out on upgrades this year, while the Labor Government rakes in $800 million from the fees you pay to the fire services property levy. Analysis of the State Budget papers confirm that just $7.6 million will be spent on new asset…
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