Friday 24 May 2024 The Allan Labor Government has abandoned the needs of regional Victoria, doing nothing to explain an alarming disparity in spending in city and country areas. Under heavy questioning at a Public Accounts and Estimate Committee hearing on Regional Development Victoria, Minister for Regional Development, Gayle Tierney, failed to provide…
DetailsMonday 20 May 2024 Dear Editor, The Allan Labor Government remains delusional about the state of our crumbling roads. Treasurer Tim Pallas has his head in the sand as potholes and go-slow zones continue to wreak havoc in regional Victoria. Rightly so, roads were a hot topic as Mr Pallas fronted…
DetailsTuesday 14 May 2024 The Public Records Advisory Council is here to stay after the Liberals and Nationals successfully moved and passed amendments to the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024 in Parliament. It kills off a shameful attempt by the Allan Labor Government to remove more oversight…
DetailsWednesday, 15 May 2024 Transfer stations in both the Wellington and South Gippsland Shires have ceased to participate in the Victorian Government’s Container Deposit Scheme (CDS). The Nationals Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien says the decision of the transfer station operators within both shires to withdraw from the scheme is evidence of…
DetailsMonday 13 May 2024 Dear Editor, The Allan Labor Government’s State Budget is a disaster for regional Victoria. As families struggle with the escalating cost-of-living crisis, this budget offers no respite, only more burdens. With no meaningful relief in sight, households will bear the brunt of dramatic increases in taxes for…
DetailsJacinta Allan’s first budget has confirmed that Labor can’t manage money and regional Victorians are paying the price. Households already grappling with the cost of living crisis have been given no meaningful relief, and will instead be hit hard by dramatic increases to both the fire services and waste levies. At the same time,…
Details10 May 2024 Local residents will continue to pay the price for the Allan Labor Government’s failure to manage money and the state’s increasing debt levels, with this week’s State Budget abandoning previous commitments for schools across the state. Nationals Member for Euroa Annabelle Cleeland said upgrades to Broadford Primary School were among…
DetailsFriday 10 May 2024 Mental health has been cruelly ignored in a bleak State Budget that fails to support Victoria’s most vulnerable. The Allan Labor Government has deferred the establishment of 35 local mental health and wellbeing hubs, many in regional Victoria. The snubs makes a mockery of the mental health levy…
DetailsThursday 09 May 2024 The ambulance ramping that GV Health experienced this week, which left ten ambulances queued for up to nine hours and the region without available ambulances during that time, has highlighted once again that medical staff at the hospital are being pushed to their limits. “I was contacted by a very…
DetailsThursday 9 May 2024 The Victorian veterans community has been treated appallingly in the State Budget, suffering a funding cut of most 40 per cent. In a double blow, the Allan Labor Government also did nothing to address the housing issues of at-risk veterans. The Budget reveals overall funding for “support for…
DetailsWednesday 8 May 2024 The Allan Labor Government continues to fail Victorian motorists as the shocking state of our roads deteriorates further following a 90 per cent reduction in road repairs this financial year. The State Budget hides the true state of spending on road maintenance with flood recovery works mixed in with…
DetailsFriday 3 May 2024 The Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria, Melina Bath, has taken the Allan Labor Government to task over its neglect of public land across regional Victoria and its ill-conceived plan to lock up state forests. Under the guise of consultation, Minister for Environment Steve Dimopoulos last month created a “Great…
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