Australia is at a turning point. Sunraysia residents and their fellow Australians cannot afford to continue down the current path.

Families and pensioners are struggling to make ends meet. Mallee residents are making sacrifices just to afford the weekly shop and cover their rent or mortgage.

The Albanese Labor government has the wrong priorities. Wasteful spending has driven up inflation and interest rates, resulting in mortgages, rents, power bills, groceries, insurance, health and education going up to a point most cannot afford.

Since Albanese and Labor took power, Australian living standards have fallen further than anywhere in the developed world.  The International Monetary Fund projects that this year Australia will have the second highest inflation (rise in the cost of living) of any developed country, after the Slovak Republic.

Sunraysia communities are falling behind. Worse still, the Albanese Labor Government is taking away our lifeblood – irrigation water. 

We can’t keep going backwards. We need to change course.

The Nationals will deliver lower inflation through a stronger economy and responsible economic management. We will stop wasteful spending, reduce taxes, and cut red tape, easing cost-of-living pressures for families and businesses.

The Coalition will unlock massive Australian gas reserves to drive down prices. We will invest in a responsible, long-term and affordable energy plan including clean, reliable, zero-emissions nuclear energy.

We will get more homes built by investing $1.5 billion over four years in regional water, sewerage, and roadworks that currently block home-building.  We’ll help Australians of all ages buy their first home and restrict foreign property investors.

We’ll strengthen Australia’s borders, provide desperately needed strong leadership on appalling crimes, and make the internet safer.

As Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health, I staged two national health summits in Mildura.  I have developed policies specific to the regions to immediately address our dire workforce shortages while growing our own next generation of doctors, specialists, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. 

Labor is robbing regions to buy votes in the cities. In my first term as the Member for Mallee I secured over $2 billion in funding for Mallee. Over the same three-year period, Labor has barely invested $1 for every $20 I secured. 

Sunraysia, Mallee and regional Australia deserve a fair share from Canberra and I expect a return to Government with The Nationals will get our country back on track.