Labor’s Industrial Relations Laws will drive more people out of work with unemployment already rising under the Albanese Government, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. The unemployment rate in Australia is at a two year high of 4.1 per cent according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, with Labor’s heavy-handed IR legislation to only…
Australian farmers are being treated as Labor’s cash cows under a new Biosecurity Fresh Food Tax, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. The tax will force Australian farmers to pay for the biosecurity costs of international importers who compete for shelf space with their own products, and will drive up the cost for families…
Member for Mallee Anne Webster has requested Federal Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt activate Commonwealth funding for victims of the Wimmera and Grampians bushfires. “The Federal Government must step in and support fire victims as they begin to recover from this tragedy,” Dr Webster said. “I have been in constant contact with the Minister’s office…
I rise to speak on behalf of my electorate of Mallee on the bill which has been overshadowed by Labor’s destructive industrial relations changes. I was gagged, as were the collective voices of over 10 million Australians, by the Albanese Labor government in a gag-and-guillotine powerplay on industrial relations. These changes, now beyond parliament’s control,…
I rise this afternoon because there is a severe natural disaster occurring in my patch this afternoon. We have catastrophic conditions and fires from the Grampians area, with risks right up to Wyperfeld National Park. For those who live in that region, there is a lot of fear and anxiety. Many have left their homes…
Farmers and Mallee irrigation communities need to have their say on the mechanisms for water buybacks, the Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says, as the Albanese Labor Government Restoring Our Rivers Act draft framework consultation runs for three more weeks. Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has three new framework programs out for public consultation,…
Mallee tradies will be hard pressed to find apprentices to address a skills shortage due to a collapse in trade training under Labor, Member for Mallee Anne Webster says. New data from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research (NCVER) shows the number of apprenticeships and trainees in training fell by 12.63 per cent…
Labor’s chaotic Right to Disconnect laws put Mallee employers at risk of criminal punishment if they contact employees outside of work hours. “Mallee small business owners will need to become industrial relations lawyers – or fork out for them – to get their heads around these rushed amendments to Labor’s already bad Industrial Relations legislation,”…
Regional Victorian lives are being put at risk by infighting between Labor State and Federal Governments, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Anne Webster says. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has urged the Allan Labor Government to review Victoria’s controversial GP Payroll Tax while the Victorian Government is concerned Minister Butler plans to rip more…
As the Federal parliamentary sitting year resumes in Canberra, Labor is dragging my Coalition colleagues and I into debating again the tax cuts that we passed five years ago in Government – with Labor’s support! Fresh from a divisive, half-a-billion-dollar doomed referendum in 2023, this distracted Labor Government had a mid-January crisis brainstorm about tax…