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Anne Webster

Anne Webster is the Member for Mallee.

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

Opinion

Labor rips off regional shows

COUNTRY shows are part of the fabric of Mallee towns. For many communities, shoes are the single biggest event of the year. Labor has ripped that fabric by scrapping funding for the Agricultural Shows Development Grants...

18 Nov 2022

Opinion

Veterans’ graves are sacred

THE Eleventh of November each year is always a solemn day. On Remembrance Day we honour and remember all those who have died and served Australia as members of our defence force in all wars and armed conflicts. It was at the 11th...

11 Nov 2022

Opinion

Bringing the Mallee to Parliament

ONE of my favourite things about Mallee is our produce. From top to bottom, we are one of the most diverse electorates in Australia, owing to Mallee’s climatic and geographical diversity. What is grown and produced in the river country in Sunraysi...

04 Nov 2022

politics

The Budget broke our hearts

The Labor Government has broken the hearts of Mallee families in their first budget. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised if he won government, there would be “no one held back, no one left behind”.But in Labor’s first...

29 Oct 2022

Opinion

Flood crisis brings the Mallee together

MY thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the floods. Nine out of 12 of shires in Mallee are impacted and, given the weather forecast, we are not at the end of this threat yet. It is devastating to see the...

22 Oct 2022