The Nationals leader Peter Walsh says nine workers in the small East Gippsland town of Newmerella are the latest casualties, the human face, of Daniel Andrews’ war on Victoria’s timber harvesting industry. Mr Walsh says in a town of barely 300, nine jobs, nine families, nine incomes lost, is a bitter blow and ends 80…
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The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath and The Nationals candidate for Morwell, Martin Cameron are calling on the Andrews Government to do more to improve mental health service access in regional communities. Ms Bath said with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Bill due to be debated in parliament’s upper house, the Andrews…
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The Andrews Labor Government has been called on to explain why progress has lagged since a $110 million commitment to new timber plantations in the Latrobe Valley was announced in 2017. Speaking in Parliament recently, The Nationals Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien said it was unacceptable that five years have passed and we…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government must be honest with Victorians about its secret plans for more injecting rooms across Melbourne, which could see a second injecting room on the iconic café laneway of Degraves Street. Victorians deserve to know before they cast their votes this November whether Labor has plans to replicate its North Richmond Injecting…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government has set the stage for an ugly showdown between legal forestry workers and increasingly belligerent and reckless protestors by blocking urgent amendments to legislation covering the timber industry. The Nationals Leader Peter Walsh says his party wanted amendments to the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 to better protect workers. Mr Walsh…
DetailsCruel cuts to community based mental health supports by the Andrews Government exposed during the Parliamentary Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) is placing local support services under pressure. Local mental services providers have closed due to a lack of state government funding while others are struggling to keep operating and remain viable. It was uncovered…
DetailsDear Editor, Victoria’s 401 Neighbourhood Houses play a vital role in helping locals access everything from food hampers through to training and education courses. They are a meeting point and a connection to the community, yet the future of as many as 27 Neighbourhood Houses is now in jeopardy due to funding uncertainty from the…
DetailsAfter being snubbed by the Andrews Labor Government in a bid to host events for the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games, Shepparton will be included as a hub if a Liberal and Nationals Government is elected in November. Leader of The Nationals Peter Walsh and Shadow Minister for Sport Cindy McLeish were at Shepparton Sports Stadium…
DetailsA Liberals and Nationals State Government will secure the future of Victoria’s Neighbourhood Houses, today announcing a commitment to providing increased recurrent funding should it form Government in November. Shadow Minister for Disability, Carers and Seniors, Tim Bull, said this would end the uncertainty in the sector created by the current government. In 2018 after…
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The Nationals Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien has called for answers on when new train services will be provided on the Gippsland line beyond Traralgon. Speaking in Parliament this week, Mr O’Brien, the newly appointed Shadow Minister for Public Transport, said that ongoing rail upgrade works had been promised way back in 2017,…
DetailsThe Andrews Labor Government is determined to leave Victoria’s farmers stranded with its refusal to support The Nationals in legislating common-sense changes to better protect licenced water frontage and Australia’s $80 billion agriculture industry from threats such as the current risk of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The Nationals leader Peter Walsh says with Australian agriculture facing…
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Under questioning in State Parliament today, Victorian Minister for Agriculture Gayle Tierney refused to make public the plans of what the Andrews Labor Government is doing to ensure that Victoria is prepared for a Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak. The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region Melina Bath said Ms Tierney’s empty words…
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