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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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May 23, 2024
Victorian Labor’s doctor tax backflip a reprieve for regional patients

Regional Victorians can breathe easy after five years of advocacy and the Victorian Liberal-National Opposition’s criticisms embarrassed the Andrews Labor Government into pausing their $10 million doctor tax, the Shadow Assistant Minister for

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May 22, 2024
Small businesses blacking out under Labor

A small business report released today should bell the cat on Labor’s spin on energy prices, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said as Treasurer Jim Chalmer’s one-off $325 energy bill relief pledge falls flat with voters. Research commissioned

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May 21, 2024
Dr Webster facing surgery during Skin Cancer Awareness Month

The Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health will undergo surgery next week for a potential skin cancer detected on her face, demonstrating the importance of skin cancer checks for all ages during global Melanoma and

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May 16, 2024
Shingles vaccine win, but lean regional health budget

Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health and Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP says increased quotas for the Shingles vaccine Shingrix is good news for older Australians in Mallee. “I advocated as Member for Mallee and as Shadow

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May 15, 2024
A win for families and farmers as Senate plans to block Labor’s fresh food tax

Farmers and families have been spared Labor’s Fresh Food Tax after the Senate crossbench resolved to block the Government’s biosecurity levy cash grab, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. “My Nationals colleagues and I have spent the past

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