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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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May 13, 2024
Victorian Labor puts Maryborough patients on the waiting list

The Victorian Labor Government’s delaying of the construction and completion of Maryborough’s new hospital is unforgiveable, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says.Tuesday’s state budget revealed the completion date for Maryborough’s new

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May 13, 2024
Labor’s Budget ignores Mallee again

The Albanese Government has yet again ignored Mallee in last night’s Federal Budget, delaying local infrastructure projects, failing to provide new money for Mallee programs and refusing to fix Labor’s self-made cost-of-living crisis, Member for

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May 8, 2024
SevenWest and WIN tell Mildura ‘get me out of here’

Mildura residents will no longer be able to watch channel 10 or its Bold and Peach channels on free-to-air television from 30 June as Mildura Digital Television Pty Ltd shuts down, taking Masterchef off the menu and putting Mildura in The Cheap

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