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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 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 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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December 15, 2023

Projects must have Social Licence

This week I met with the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) to talk about mining projects in Mallee and the potential impact on prime agricultural land. Projects such as mineral sands mining or construction of transmission lines require

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September 20, 2023

Column – agriculture a prime mover for Australia

The Productivity Commission has confirmed just how valuable agriculture is to Australia. Last week the commission released a paper titled Productivity Growth and Wages – a Forensic Look which laid bare the importance of the sector. This paper

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