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Anne Webster

Anne Webster is the Member for Mallee.

Road to funding

I WROTE last week about the horrendous attrition Swan Hill and Mallee have suffered under Labor’s scorched earth approach to regional Australia with the double-whammy of Albanese and Allan Labor Governments. Mallee shires constantly tell me how...

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letters

Labor’s risking lives with poor roads and health services

THIS week as I bounced along Mallee’s shocking roads to meet constituents at mobile offices at Halls Gap, Great Western, Stawell, Wycheproof, St Arnaud, Dunolly, Maryborough, Rupanyup and Minyip, I reflected yet again on the injustice of Labor’s...

14 Apr 2025

politics

Dutton is better at securing deal

AUSTRALIAN farmers are coming to terms with the Trump Administration’s Wednesday, April 2, tariffs on Australian goods, following a 25 per cent tariff on Aussie steel and aluminium entering the US. As the US applies global tariffs on goods...

05 Apr 2025

politics

Cost of living crisis

AUSTRALIA’S home-grown cost of living crisis keeps getting worse under the Albanese Labor Government. Power prices have risen $1,300 more than the Prime Minister promised at the last election. The $275 permanent cut to your energy bill, promised 97...

21 Mar 2025

Opinion

Leap in health facilities

I WAS so thrilled this week to visit the Swan Hill District Health new emergency department, which I fought hard for and secured $30 million through the former Coalition Government. As Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health, it was rewarding...

13 Dec 2024

Opinion

Saving children’s childhoods our greatest fight

When I was elected as Member for Mallee in 2019 I never imagined that five years later we would be fighting to save children’s childhoods. As a mother and grandmother, I see how pervasive devices and electronic entertainment have become in children’s...

27 Sep 2024

Opinion

Funding round deprives councils

INFRASTRUCTURE Minister Catherine King has stopped Mallee councils pursuing vital infrastructure funding by announcing round 2 of Growing Regions during Victoria’s local government election caretaker period. On August 19 I...

13 Sep 2024

Opinion

Budgets offer little respite

THE May 7 Victorian Labor state budget and the May 14 Albanese Labor federal budgets depict a debt and deficit nightmare, particularly in Victoria, and with tragically little to show for it in Mallee. The Albanese government has spent $209 billion...

10 May 2024

Opinion

Giving MPs food for thought

FEDERAL Water Minister Tanya Plibersek and other lawmakers holding the fate of the Murray-Darling Basin in their hands were dazzled by basin producers on Wednesday night in Parliament House. Food and fibre...

17 Nov 2023

News

World Transplant Games raise awareness

I HAVE had the privilege this week of being in Perth for the World Transplant Games as part of my role as Opposition assistant spokesperson for regional health and as the co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Organ Donation. Organ...

20 Apr 2023

Opinion

Labor energy market legislation

LABOR’S energy market legislation sorts the politics but threatens family and business bottom lines in the medium and long term. Labor has delivered another piece of hastily written legislation which wrapseverything in red tape and backs Australians...

16 Dec 2022

Opinion

Seething over road funds

JUST when you think you’ve gotten to the bottom of Labor’s budget barrel for the regions, more curve balls get thrown in. And this time it hits hard at the safety of every person on Mallee’s highways. Senate Estimates have...

26 Nov 2022