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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

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 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 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 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

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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