TOPICS: Farrer by-election result, regional health, federal budget

 The most divisive PM in Australia’s history has divided the nation on the voice, city versus country and on recognising Palestine. Now, he is dividing Australians according to the year they were born.

Regional Australians live with gross inequities with weaker services, patchy connectivity, higher costs and fewer opportunities close to home. You don’t fix that divide with a slogan.

Robinvale has a high volume of workers who may not have arrived through a dedicated agricultural migration program. The Nationals are focussed on re-establishing the Coalition-era dedicated Agriculture Visa to get the focus right.

"... more regional Australians are being left out-of-pocket for essential healthcare. During a cost-of-living and fuel price crisis, Labor is shifting healthcare costs onto regional Australians who have reduced access to alternative services.”

TOPICS: Labor’s housing targets, regional aged care, Queensland Government and Twiggy Forrest, green hydrogen

“Australian farmers, our transport & manufacturing industries and motorists need fuel supplies to be supplemented by biodiesel and ethanol production, and the combined wine oversupply and fuel undersupply crisis justifies Commonwealth investment

“So many Australians are waiting for organ donation and the circumstances where organs can be donated can be time-critical and very narrow. That’s why it’s critical we do everything we can to encourage many Australians to register."

I am pleased to see the Victorian Farmers’ Federation are pushing for something similar prioritisation of our best farming land in the lead up to November’s Victorian State election.