Careless King strands caretaker Mallee councils from Growing Regions eligibility

Thursday 12 September 2024 Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has stranded Mallee Councils from pursuing vital infrastructure funding by announcing Growing Regions round 2 during Victoria’s local government election caretaker period, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “On 19 August I alerted Mallee councils that Growing Regions Round 2 is open, notifying them that…

The Nationals stand 100 per cent with protesting farmers on 10 September in Canberra

Friday 6 September 2024 Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP will stand with Mallee farmers and her Nationals colleagues shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds more farmers from across the country on September 10, in an unprecedented rally against Labor’s anti-farming ideology. Dr Webster said Labor is destroying agriculture and making life impossible for producers of food…

Labor hurls a hail of grievance rocks from their glasshouse of governance failures

Monday 2 September 2024 Mallee residents and small businesses are being gaslit by an Albanese Government with grievances against everyone but themselves, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers spent the weekend attacking Peter Dutton and the Reserve Bank of Australia (‘RBA’). Labor’s poor public standing is demonstrated by the Prime…

Labor wastes taxpayer money buying 70GL Murray Darling Water while farmers return 22x that amount to environment

Tuesday 20 August 2024 The Albanese Labor Government should not be proceeding with their Murray-Darling Basin water buybacks while the quietly released evidence shows farmers have returned environmental water by many magnitudes more than Labor’s buyback target, the Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “The Basin Authority has quietly released its 2022-23 report…