Today’s Murray–Darling Communities Investment Package means an overhaul of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. A $230 million investment in regional communities, which will create jobs, economic activity and healthy rivers. Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Keith Pitt, and Member for Mallee Anne Webster said the 11 new initiatives in the Package would keep the…
Federal Member for Mallee, Anne Webster, has welcomed a NSW Government decision to extensively revise its COVID-19 border-control rules from Friday morning, enabling local residents to routinely cross the border. “This will mean that the bulk of people needing to enter either NSW or cross into Victoria – within the declared border region – will…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s declaration on Friday – that he will introduce a Commonwealth definition for the term ‘Hotspot’ and that he would press state governments to adopt it – is welcome news in border communities like the ones I represent in Victoria’s north-west. My electorate of Mallee borders both the states of South Australia…
Anne Webster, Federal member for Mallee welcomes the adoption of a common sense approach to border restrictions, with the South Australian Government reinstating a 40km border zone in Western Victoria from midnight Thursday. “I have been calling on the State governments in SA and NSW to find sustainable, workable solutions as we deal with the…