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October 10, 2025

Outage had tragic consequences

I am also proud to be the first ever Opposition MP to hold Regional Communications as a Shadow portfolio. The Nationals fought hard for this new Shadow portfolio because Regional Communications needs continuous focus as essential infrastructure

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October 8, 2025

The Communications Minister ducked and weaved

Sadly it took the tragic deaths of 4 Australians due to Optus’ second outage last month for the Albanese Government to bring legislation into the Parliament to properly establish the Custodian.

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October 1, 2025

Labor and Greens are happy to ride on the coattails of foreign money

To mix metaphors, while it is always healthy and good management to not have all your (economic) eggs in one basket, sometimes regional development advocates fail to see the forest for the trees.

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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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