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Opinion: Flying flag for national day

I JOINED Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton on Wednesday for his visit to the Mallee electorate at my invitation to support the Halls Gap community struck twice in a year by bushfires. I have been impressed with Peter’s...

17 Jan 2025
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Dalton has plan to ‘fix’ basin

MEMBER for Murray Helen Dalton says water is “on the lips of everyone” as she unveiled her seven-point plan to “fix” the Murray-Darling Basin. Mrs Dalton said her plan was the result of extensive consultation with water experts and rural...

17 Jan 2025
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Symes Victoria’s first female treasurer

MEMBER for Northern Victoria Jaclyn Symes has been sworn in as Victoria’s first female treasurer. The Labor MP, who sits in the upper house, replaced Tim Pallas after he quit politics earlier this week. Ms Symes, from Benalla, has served as...

23 Dec 2024
Opinion

Merry Christmas to you all

MERRY Christmas! Peace on earth, and goodwill to all – that’s how the Christmas message goes, and my goodness, do we need to hear it this Christmas season! It is hard to recall, let alone imagine, a time in the last 2000-plus years that the...

23 Dec 2024
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
politics

Webster concerned over anti-Semitism

MEMBER for Mallee Anne Webster has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of showing “weak” leadership on anti-Semitism following the terror attack on a Melbourne synagogue last week. Dr Webster said a member of the Jewish community in the Mallee...

13 Dec 2024
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Pill testing fears for MP

LEGALISING pill testing in Victoria is tough to swallow for Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad. The Nationals MP said pill testing at music festivals would endanger the lives of young people and send “completely the wrong message about drug...

08 Dec 2024
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Call to halt Treaty talks

VICTORIAN Premier Jacinta Allan should immediately cease negotiations on a Treaty with the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, according to Member for Northern Victoria Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell. The One Nation upper house MP said the planned Treaty was...

08 Dec 2024
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Coalition makes housing help pledge

REGIONAL Australians would be allocated 30 per cent of a $5 billion funding promise as part of the Coalition’s home-building plan to unlock new homes in regional, rural and remote Australia. Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster confirmed that if the...

07 Dec 2024
Opinion

Climbers rocked by ban

Anne Webster columnDURING a frenetic end to the Parliamentary sitting year in Canberra, residents of Natimuk, the Wimmera and Mallee – and Australia’s rock-climbers – wrote to me lamenting the Allan Labor Government shutting down about half...

30 Nov 2024
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Walsh steps down

MEMBER for Murray Plains Peter Walsh will remain in Parliament until the next election, despite stepping down as leader of the Victorian Nationals on Monday night after a decade. Gippsland South MP Danny O’Brien was elected unopposed as the new...

29 Nov 2024
Opinion

Scam action shouldn’t protect banks

I AM furious that vulnerable Mallee constituents are being scammed. In Canberra representing you during this fortnight, I shared Mallee horror scam stories – including my own – as I spoke on Labor’s new Scam...

22 Nov 2024
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Social media ban fails to address real issues

THE ban on social media for people aged under 16 is a “quick fix”, according to Independent candidate for Farrer Michelle Milthorpe. The educator said the Federal Government’s proposal failed to address the root causes of social media misuse...

19 Nov 2024
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Gambling companies on notice to return stolen money

MEMBER for Murray Helen Dalton will soon table a private member’s Bill to compel gambling companies to return proceeds of crime to victims. Ms Dalton has joined forces with federal MP Andrew Wilkie and Tasmanian MP Kristie Johnston to concurrently...

19 Nov 2024
Opinion

Coalition has better plan for water use

WATER is our lifeblood in this district, but Labor is sucking us dry to buy supposed “Greenie” votes in the inner cities. The Albanese Labor Government’s 450 gigalitre (GL) Murray-Darling Basin water buyback program at an estimated cost over...

16 Nov 2024
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Walsh floored by red tape

MEMBER for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said he is “gobsmacked” at the hoops through which property developer Justin Quattrocchi has been forced to jump in his attempt to build rental properties in Nyah West. And he took his “disappointment and...

04 Nov 2024
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Housing policy ‘re-floating Titanic’

MEMBER for Murray Plains Peter Walsh says Premier Jacinta Allan is “frantically trying to re-float the Titanic” with her latest round of multi-billion dollar promises to solve Victoria’s housing crisis. Mr Walsh said Census data showed more...

02 Nov 2024