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October 26, 2026

Higher Skin Cancer Rates Demand Better Regional Healthcare

Our cancer care networks are very fragile due to our dependence on fly-in fly-out specialists or flights to get patients down to Melbourne. Our long-term answer must include training and retaining more medical professionals in regional Australia

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Parliament

October 26, 2026

Women’s Health Care Must Be Measured by Access, Not Geography

The government now quite correctly says all 31 primary health networks have at least one clinic. Consider what that means in my electorate. For women in Mildura within the enormous Murray PHN, their clinic is in Bendigo, which is 400km away.

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Parliament

October 26, 2026

Emergency Communications Should Not Depend on Your Postcode

The reality is that this system has significant limitations that many Australians simply do not understand. Temporary disaster roaming only works when there is at least one other network tower available, so one is not enough.

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Parliament

October 26, 2026

Fear Must Never Silence Democracy

No-one should fear for their safety simply for doing their job. This is not who we as Australians are. We believe in freedom of speech, robust debate and the right to disagree.

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Parliament

October 14, 2026

Agriculture Industry, Small Business - MPI

Around two in five small-business owners are working more hours, and one in four worked longer hours for no additional pay. It's little wonder business owners turned to AI after Labor's toxic taxes on trusts to depict their new business partner.

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Parliament

October 14, 2026

Carbon Credits and Other Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Transparency)

I am pleased to say, after I brought the Leader of the Nationals to St Arnaud in my electorate, where he declared we would not support VNI West, that that is the position now taken by the Victorian Nationals and Liberals.

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Parliament

October 12, 2026

Labor's ATO credit card payment fiasco - Private Member's Motion - 12 October 2026

Cameron says "It's pure chaos—everyone is running their own show in the government—nobody is in charge—its madness—if you ran a corporation like that it would be broke in 6 months..."

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Parliament

October 12, 2026

World Heart Day - Private Member's Motion - 12 October 2026

Marking World Heart Day, I am pleased to say, after a lot of hard work, the Coalition's Medical Research Future Fund is running a heart health check community project to get strong data across our region

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Parliament

September 15, 2026

Labor crab-walking away from their green hydrogen hype

All of a sudden, what we have instead are 600 jobs gone. While Labor want to declare that they are the government for workers, I don't think losing 600 jobs is the way to be the government of workers.

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