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November 15, 2024
Labor sucking us dry with estimated $3 billion 450GL water buybacks - Column (Swan Hill Guardian)

Water is our lifeblood in this district, but Labor is sucking us dry to buy supposed ‘greenie’ votes in the inner cities

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November 15, 2024
Thank God we're not America - reflections on the US elections - Column

I have been horrified at the US presidential candidates’ personal attacks on the mental characteristics or intellectual acumen, the shallow publicity appearances and outlandish claims.

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November 7, 2024
Farmers learn their fate under VNI West transmission line corridor - Column

Farmers and communities along the proposed VNI West corridor learned their fate in October as the route for the 240 kilometres of VNI West transmission corridor through Mallee was finalised to a 70-metre-wide easement

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November 5, 2024
Victoria's divisive Mount Arapiles Rock Climbing Ban - Column

The Mount Arapiles decision should remind all Australians that under Federal and Victorian Labor, state-sponsored division and activism is carving up community and private land alike for the profit of a select few.

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November 1, 2024
Federal Inquiry slams Victorian Labor handling of pandemic, lockdowns, border and school closures - Column

The Inquiry was scathing in its criticism of the then Andrews Labor Government. Victorian Labor made unilateral decisions about lockdowns, curfews and vaccine mandates without transparency or accountability.

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October 25, 2024
Small Businesses, Home Buyers and Renters under pressure - Column - Swan Hill

I share the frustration felt by Swan Hill families and businesses with government inaction on the cost of living and doing business. Labor have also failed on housing, where the pressures are acute in Swan Hill.

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October 25, 2024
Families struggle with Childcare, Housing availability - Wimmera

 While some childcare services are opening soon in the region, there are a huge number of gaps in coverage that – left unaddressed – threaten the future viability of towns.

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October 25, 2024
Robinvale Centenary 23-27 October 2024 - Column

Robinvale began as the business centre for the local wheat farming district and while the crops have shifted to grapes, olives, carrots and almonds – to name a few – farming remains at the core of Robinvale’s identity.

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October 18, 2024
Royal Visit Rebuffed by Premiers - Column - Horsham

This Monday the 21st of October I’ll be in Canberra for an audience with our King, Charles the Third by the Grace of God King of Australia and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.

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October 18, 2024
Royal Visit Rebuffed by Premiers - Column - Swan Hill

Regrettably but understandably with a tight schedule, Their Majesties the King and Queen are unable to visit Swan Hill, as Her Majesty the late Queen Elizabeth the Second did on the 7th of April 1970.

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October 5, 2024
Australia must reject anti-Semitism

 The risk facing Israel - the only democratic nation in the Middle East - is a risk to all democracies. Make no mistake. Australia must reject anti-Semitism. - Column by Dr Anne Webster MP for Mallee, published Saturday 5 October 2024

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September 20, 2024
Saving childhoods

When I was elected as Member for Mallee in 2019 I never imagined that 5 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

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September 14, 2024
Albanese Government fighting everything but the cost-of-living

This sitting week in Canberra the Albanese Labor Government fought everyone but their home-grown cost-of-living crisis. Treasurer Jim Chalmers tries to blame his Government’s economic woes on the

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August 23, 2024
Wimmera families stranded in childcare deserts

While the Albanese Labor government crow about increasing wages and subsidies for childcare, Mallee families are stranded in a childcare desert, with long waiting lists or – in some towns – no childcare service at all. Childcare is an essential

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August 23, 2024
Swan Hill, and Gannawarra families stranded in childcare deserts

The Albanese Labor government crow about increasing wages and subsidies for childcare, but Mallee families are stranded in a childcare desert, with long waiting lists or – in some towns – no childcare service at all. Childcare is an essential

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August 16, 2024
Labor’s Mickey Mouse approach

August 2024 After a whirlwind of winter visits across the Mallee electorate I have returned to Canberra for a sitting fortnight and in the first week I was talking about Labor’s ‘Future Made in Australia’ Bill, likening Labor’s use of the term

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August 8, 2024
Farmers angry at Field Days as mining, energy projects bungle social licence

I am grateful to the many farmers and community members who came to see me at the Mallee Machinery Field Days at Speed on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Farmers are rightfully angry about mining and energy projects, and other threats

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July 29, 2024
(Re-)Shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic

Prime Minister Albanese’s Sunday ministerial shuffle of the deck chairs reminds me of the movie Titanic. Musicians played on as a bewildered captain wades to the wheelhouse and the ship sinks into the Atlantic. The foreseeable iceberg of Labor

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July 23, 2024
More than Half of Regional Small Businesses considering closing their doors

Small businesses across Mallee have been telling me exactly what new data is indicating – more than half of them are considering closing their doors under the weight of the Albanese Labor Government’s policies. The Australian Chamber of Commerce

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February 8, 2024
Stage 3 Tax Cuts

As the Federal parliamentary sitting year resumes in Canberra, Labor is dragging my Coalition colleagues and I into debating again the tax cuts that we passed five years ago in Government – with Labor’s support! Fresh from a divisive,

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