A haystack fire at Coonooer West on 10 December is another reminder of the challenges Wimmera farmers manage on a regular basis.
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!
Remember that just over 1,000 days ago - before the last federal election - Albanese Labor promised 97 times to cut your power bills by $275 per annum.
Electricity is up 18 per cent and short-term bill relief isn’t the permanent $275 reduction Labor promised 97 times before the last election ... it will take Coalition governments to get us back on track.
Given the rapid advance of bans on Australians accessing public assets like Mount Arapiles, Uluru (NT), Mount Warning (NSW) ... and the once famous Mallee Rally at Lake Tyrrell in Mallee, I created the Arapiles Declaration
The Mount Arapiles rock climbing ban situation raises significant and disappointing similarities to the sadly stalled Mallee Rally at Sea Lake.
Mount Arapiles rock climbers established traditions of leaving no impact. State Labor governments treat decent Australians as problems needing to be banned, pressing on with treaties and Voices as though the referendum never happened.
Scammers are the scum of the earth, casting around for vulnerable people who are not fools. I’ll argue with anyone suggesting my constituents are stupid for being duped out of their money.
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 Prevention Framework Bill.
Australians now know the true cost of the Albanese Labor Government’s globally unprecedented renewables-only approach. The PM’s plans are so financially undercooked, you wonder if they ever left the mixing bowl.
Australia has learned the true cost of the Albanese Labor Government’s globally unprecedented, renewables-only approach to Australia’s energy grid. The PM’s plans are so financially undercooked, you wonder if they ever left the mixing bowl.
Water is our lifeblood in this district, but Labor is sucking us dry to buy supposed ‘greenie’ votes in the inner cities
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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