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March 5, 2025

Struggling with the cost-of-living crisis?

Not only has income tax gone up 26.8 per cent, mortgage repayments are up 41 per cent, gas prices are up 35 per cent, insurance 33 per cent, the cost of bread 18 per cent and rent 15 per cent – to name just a few.

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February 28, 2025

The Nationals secured 43 mobile black spot investments in Mallee!

During their destructive three years in office, Labor has failed to fund one mobile black spot in Mallee, which takes in over one third of Victoria.Worse still, they’ve created more black spots in a botched shutdown of the 3G network.

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February 27, 2025

Wimmera Machinery Field Days 2025 - Wimmera Column

The mood at recent Field Days has been soured by the looming threats to farming from industrial-scale energy projects and mining operations. I will emphasise every time that social licence is paramount.

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February 24, 2025

Australian democracy and bipartisanship

It was my great pleasure to bring Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. Milton Dick, to Wimmera Lutheran College Horsham campus on Monday morning.

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February 24, 2025

Labor are a bit on the nose in the Grampians

During their destructive three years in office, Labor has failed to fund one mobile black spot in Mallee, which takes in over one third of Victoria.

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February 17, 2025

Assistance delay

My call to the Federal Minister has been to urge that the Grampians region receives a tourism support package to encourage people to book holidays in the region, and businesses receive support– exactly what Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton

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February 14, 2025

For almond growers who planted seven years ago, the timing could be perfect.

Almond prices have improved of late and the low Aussie dollar is helping our trade prospects. I hope our wine grape export prospects also improve given the huge oversupply and miserable prices for our wine grape growers.

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February 14, 2025

"... if turbines that big are built in Mallee, they will be the tallest structures in the nation!

The Coalition’s responsible energy policy will use existing transmission networks, ramping up our use of gas in the energy transition, and including nuclear power at existing grid-connected coal-fired power plant sites as they retire.

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February 12, 2025

Trump’s ‘America First’

Isaac Newton observed that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and so it goes with tariffs and trading markets. As the Trump administration launches a tariff ‘trade war’ on foreign goods entering the USA, markets retaliate...

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