Bitumen is too expensive. Communities are cutting back on essential travel and regional Australians are being left behind despite the Prime Minister's promise to the contrary.

the West Wimmera Shire Council can no longer afford basic road maintenance. Bitumen is too expensive. Communities are cutting back on essential travel and regional Australians are being left behind despite the Prime Minister's promise to the con

“At a time when Australian families are tightening their belts, the last thing they should be asked to fund is more politicians ... Now is the time to tighten the belt, not expand the bureaucracy. This Government is focused on itself."

“Instead of acknowledging the problem and fixing it, the Government is doubling down on a tool that is producing inaccurate outcomes and leaving vulnerable people without care.”

The Albanese government, by contrast, have accused Australians of panic buying—and they were still doing it today—while they have been panic legislating.

"... an alternative domestic supply base already exists that meets Australian fuel standards and is a viable and scalable component of a diversified fuel strategy and a buffer against a supply shock.” 

Robinvale growers tell me their buyers won’t pay the higher cost of delivery to market so the painful choice may be not to harvest at all. One in 5 cropping farmers are considering not sowing this year.

"Mallee family budgets are already stretched before the Iran conflict. Labor's war on fossil fuels has put families, farmers and small businesses at breaking point.

"Farmers can't get diesel. Families are rationing their tanks. Regional Australians don't have the luxury of jumping on a bus, or working from home.