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September 24, 2025

Rehabilitation remains at the forefront

When mining occurs interstate on pastoral country the post-mining impacts are less pronounced as what we have seen at Douglas and Ouyen, and potentially at Dooen and other mineral sands prospects.

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September 24, 2025

Miners to rehabilitate prime agricultural land

the Government can compel landowners and homeowners to step aside and let a miner use that resource. Some Mallee farmers are facing losing access to their homes for 40 years.

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September 23, 2025

Scrambling to Find Workers

The Albanese Labor Government are behaving poorly, previously signalling Vietnamese workers would be available, but now postponing the Arrangement leaving horticultural businesses scrambling to find workers.

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September 10, 2025

Scales are tipped against local communities

The scales are tipped against local communities - as one former mayor put it to me this week, why can a company can spend 6 years preparing an EES proposal but the public, and their council, get just 6 weeks to respond to a 6,000 pages

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September 5, 2025

The Prime Minister’s answers particularly offensive.

I am proud to have taken Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to task in Question Time this week in Canberra on behalf of Mallee farmers

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September 2, 2025

Farmers protested in Spring Street

While draconian new powers apply to VNI West to the east of your readership, there are some very important principles in play. First is the fundamental democratic foundation of personal property rights.

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September 1, 2025

Albanese could not get out of Ballarat fast enough

How bizarre that the Labor Prime Minister would tell the Ballarat audience that farmers ought to be treated with respect, when Victorian Labor had just legislated to take away their property rights!

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August 30, 2025

Ballarat turned out in force

I stand with Mallee residents because they are right, they are suffering injustices and are receive zero respect from either Labor Federal or State Governments.

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August 29, 2025

Zero investment from a city-centric government

Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong have bloomed thanks to their proximity to Melbourne and the largesse of a Victorian Labor Government that cynically apportions taxpayer money (well, future debt actually) for political gain.

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