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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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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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In the News
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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