20 September 2024 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’s lives. I was out for one of my daughter’s birthdays…
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. The Parliamentary Friends of Organ Donation co-chair Dr Anne Webster MP called on National Cabinet to discuss this important…
14 September 2024 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 Reserve Bank of Australia (the RBA), the Opposition Leader, the Productivity Commission – even the laws of economics. Labor moans that the RBA is…
Thursday 12 September 2024 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 period, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “On 19 August I alerted Mallee councils that Growing Regions Round 2 is open, notifying them that…
Tuesday 10 September 2024 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to attend the National Farmer Rally outside Parliament House, ignoring farmers who travelled from Mallee to plead with the Labor Government to stop its anti-farming agenda. Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP said the Prime Minister had once again demonstrated complete contempt towards farmers…
Tuesday 10 September 2024 This morning’s announcement by the Albanese Government to mandate a minimum age for social media use follows the Coalition’s advocacy and strong leadership on protecting Australians online, Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster said. “Three months ago, the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton committed a…
Monday 9 September 2024 Mildura and the Grampians’ selection as trial sites for a ‘single employer model’ is a boost for local doctor recruitment, Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster MP said today. “Within months of being appointed Shadow Minister, in March 2023 I organised the national Regional…
Friday 6 September 2024 Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP will stand with Mallee farmers and her Nationals colleagues shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds more farmers from across the country on September 10, in an unprecedented rally against Labor’s anti-farming ideology. Dr Webster said Labor is destroying agriculture and making life impossible for producers of food…
Transcript – Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health – Dr Anne Webster MP, Member for Mallee – Interview with Prue Bentley, ABC Victoria – Thursday 6 September 2024 – 5:05pm BENTLEY: Our colleagues at ABC Mildura – Swan Hill, Ailsa Kennedy and Tamara Clarke have been looking into this. They have found that there is…
Monday 2 September 2024 Mallee residents and small businesses are being gaslit by an Albanese Government with grievances against everyone but themselves, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers spent the weekend attacking Peter Dutton and the Reserve Bank of Australia (‘RBA’). Labor’s poor public standing is demonstrated by the Prime…