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June 14, 2024

Australia’s Regional Health Catastrophe: The Buck Stops with Butler

Regional Australia’s health catastrophe demands urgent intervention and crisis talks, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster says, as the states demand the Prime Minister come back to the table on health funding.

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June 13, 2024

Dutton and Littleproud Showing Strong Leadership, Truth-Telling on Renewables

Australia will be better off when Peter Dutton and David Littleproud lead the nation and continue telling the truth about Labor’s failing and destructive renewable energy rush, the Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP says.

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June 11, 2024

Water Buyback Impact laid bare as Labor aims at Political Target

The Albanese Government doesn’t care about a potential $20 million reduction in annual irrigated horticulture in Sunraysia, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today as Water Minister Tanya Plibersek today tries to spin some positives out

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June 11, 2024

Harvest Trail Funding Road Blocked Despite Backpackers Returning

Federal Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP says she is dismayed at the Albanese Government’s axing of $47.3 million in funding for Harvest Trail Services and Harvest Trail Information Service (HTIS) from 1 July, saying the two are essential

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June 7, 2024

A Win for Community Pharmacies but Questions Remain

The Albanese Labor Government has been forced into a new 8th Community Pharmacy Agreement. The Agreement was finally released last week following sustained pressure from the Coalition after the Government’s botched implementation of the 60-day

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May 30, 2024

Pests to run amok as Labor funding fail lets feral cats out of the bag

Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP says she is dismayed that Labor has let the feral cats out of the bag by failing to commit funding in their ‘war on feral cats’ while the Agriculture Minister Murray Watt presides over a go-slow on adequate

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May 30, 2024

Labor’s PALM weekly hours backflip another belated reality-check

Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP has welcomed the Federal Government’s backflip on ill-advised changes to the Pacific Australian Labour Mobility Scheme after the Nationals strongly advocated against the now-defunct minimum weekly

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May 29, 2024

Mallee and Regional Australians ripped off by Albanese Labor

The federal electorate of Mallee has been ‘ripped off’ by the Albanese Labor government’s replacement programs for the successful Coalition-era Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF), Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today.

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May 27, 2024

Report recommends major bank reform to save regional branches

Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP has backed a Senate Committee report into the impact of regional bank branch closures, which finds that private banks have failed regional Australians. “The final report found that without regulatory

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