“Paying students like apprentices to take up trades and skills is a game-changer for young people in Mallee,” Dr Webster said, "Not enough students are taking up the skills we need - under Labor, we have lost 90,000 apprentices and trainees."

$8.7 million will support Monash University Rural Health Mildura to establish a program locally to recruit local-origin students from the Sunraysia while the Coalition will also develop a new Rural, Regional and Remote Health Strategy

Leader of The Nationals David Littleproud and Member for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster, have today made their largest commitment yet in the campaign to win Mallee, pledging $12 million for Mildura Airport

Leader of The Nationals David Littleproud has launched the campaign of The Nationals’ Member for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster, saying "Anne has been a shining light ... in Parliament, in The Nationals’ party room and in her conversations with me."

The Coalition initiative – an Australian first – will allow tax deductions on interest repayments on the first $650,000 of a mortgage for first home buyers and those that have been out of the housing market for 10 years

Whether it’s the crumbling roads and their undulations and potholes, or the lack of investment in regional health services, the 3 May election is crucial for regional Australia.

A Coalition Government will direct 80 per cent of commodity revenue windfalls into two new Future Funds to pay down Labor’s $1.2 trillion debt bill and fund investments in regional Australia. 

“The Coalition will back our farming and resources sectors by investing $600 million nationwide in agricultural and mining roads critical to getting product to domestic and export markets,” Dr Webster said.

“I am horrified to hear from businesses in unison at a forum I organised yesterday that none of them have received Labor’s $5,000 Business Bushfire Recovery Grants