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Cost-of-living Bungling fuels worst housing affordability in almost 30 years

Mallee residents are struggling with their fellow Australians amid the worst housing affordability since records began in 1995, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “With the Reserve Bank meeting today and inflation data out tomorrow,

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Mallee suffers as the cost of seeing a doctor continues to rise

The cost of seeing a doctor has risen dramatically on the Albanese Government’s watch, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health and member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said this morning. The latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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Column
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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Drivers Licences could save lives with one simple change

Monday 16 September 2024 A breakfast event at Parliament House Canberra on Wednesday has discussed the need to lift organ donation rates in Australia by allowing Australians to be able to register via their driver’s licence.

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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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Careless King strands caretaker Mallee councils from Growing Regions eligibility

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has stranded Mallee Councils from pursuing vital infrastructure funding by announcing Growing Regions round 2 during Victoria’s local government election caretaker

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Parliament
Statements by Members - Agriculture Industry

Thousands of farmers made the long trip to Canberra yesterday to peacefully protest the Albanese Labor government's destructive anti-agriculture agenda. It is the first time in 40 years that farmers have united together to come to this place...

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Parliament
Treasury Laws Amendment (Reserve Bank Reforms) Bill 2023

I spoke last month about Labor's Future Made in Australia Bill and likened it to Labor's use of the term 'made in Australia' to Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice in Disney's 1940 classic Fantasia. In the story...

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Parliament
Constituency Statements - Organ and Tissue Donation

I am delighted to get up this morning and discuss the Parliamentary Friends of Organ Donation. I have just finished a particular event with my very good friend Dr Mike Freelander to have people who have received organ donations standing...

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