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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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