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September 18, 2026
Albanese Labor Government treating farmers / food security like a political plaything

The broadacre harvest is upon us, yet Labor has stranded between 30 to 50 per cent of the skilled workforce needed to get the crop in. It is beyond condemnation.

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September 11, 2026
Labor proposes a 30 per cent minimum tax on income from the discretionary trusts

Labor’s instinct is to redistribute wealth. The Coalition’s instinct is to create wealth— by backing Australians who take risks with their own capital, build businesses and employ others.

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September 9, 2026
Harvest Imminent as WHM applications delay

I am calling on Labor to take the handbrake off the harvest and get on with processing WHM visas and this week in Canberra have been taking up the fight for our farmers.

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September 7, 2026
Labor Government are pumping the brakes on desperately needed workers

Working holiday makers (WHMs) have been a mainstay of Australian farming for decades and some very capable workers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and South Africa come for harvest to run $1-2 million harvesters and other machinery

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August 28, 2026
$5,000 annual cap on veterans’ allied health services

The services affected include psychology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise physiology, podiatry, dietetics and social work. These are not luxuries.

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August 26, 2026
VNI West Scrapped: A Win for Victorian Farmers and Landowners

Social licence is the local permission from a community for government to proceed with a project because the community wants, or genuinely accepts, the project.

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August 21, 2026
Standing Up for Regional Victorians, Veterans, Seniors and the Cost of Living

The Nationals stood firm against Labor’s mean-spirited $5,000 cap on allied health services for veterans. Veterans and all Australians rightly expect those who have put their lives on the line for our nation to access the care they need.

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August 20, 2026
VNI West Must Go: Standing Up for Farmers and Protecting Prime Agricultural Land

The Nationals for Regional Victoria - with the Victorian Liberals - have backed in the federal Nationals’ opposition to VNI West, and are taking similar steps to protect prime ag land.

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August 6, 2026
Labor’s War on Regional Australia: More Red Tape, Higher Costs and Fewer Opportunities

Labor are buying back irrigation water from our communities in northern Victoria, even though they already have plenty of water for the environment and arguably applying it in a way that is hurting, not helping, the river environment.

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