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Labor’s union bosses get their way over Mallee farmers and businesses

Mallee farmers, builders and other businesses will bear the cost of Labor’s payback to their Union masters with the Same Job, Same Pay Laws requiring employers to pay more for labour hire passing Parliament late on Thursday, Member for Mallee

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Labor seeks headlines without addressing Australia’s healthcare crisis

The people of Mallee deserve better access to vital healthcare, not another headline from Labor after this week’s National Cabinet meeting, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster says. The PM has failed to say how $1.2

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Medical Commonwealth Supported Places for Mildura denied

The Albanese Labor Government has dashed hopes for doctor training in Mildura, denying a local bid for additional Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP). “I am gutted,” Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Anne

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Devastating buybacks all but locked in as Greens roll over on Basin Plan

Regional Murray River communities will shrink after the Greens teamed up with the Albanese Labor Government to revise the Murray Darling Basin Plan in Canberra this week, Member for Mallee Anne Webster says. The two urban-based parties

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Labor’s turbo-charged renewables plan will cripple the regions and drive up the cost-of-living

Labor’s plan to back a five-fold increase in new renewable energy across Australia will have profoundly damaging consequences on regional Australia and accelerate the rising cost of living, Member for Mallee Anne Webster says. Energy Minister

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Regional Australians continue to suffer a healthcare crisis – Butler must act now

The Albanese Labor Government continues to politicise the health of regional Australians rather than take real action, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Anne Webster says. On Wednesday, Health Minister Mark Butler will announce

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Parliament savours Taste Of The Basin

Politicians from every side of the Chamber and corner of Australia were treated to the best the Murray Darling Basin has to offer on Wednesday night at the Taste Of The Basin event in Parliament House. Hundreds of politicians, staffers and

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Webster: Labor must step up and support General Practice

The proportion of General Practitioners bulk billing all patients nationwide has halved in the past 12 months under Labor’s watch. Bulk billing rates by GPs for all patients fell to just 12 per cent in 2023 according to RACGP statistics in a

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Labor must not abandon regional communities

Travellers on Wimmera roads have a right to be concerned that their safety and that of those they love will increasingly be put at risk, thanks to the comments made by the Minister for Infrastructure Catherine King and her intent to slash

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