The Federal Government’s announcement of $8 million in funding for the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital’s Research and Education Campus is a welcome step for wildlife conservation – albeit one that has taken far too long.

Our food producers, productive small businesses and manufacturers are under attack from the Albanese and Allan Labor governments taxing unrealised gains in asset values, battling skyrocketing energy prices, tied up in green and red tape...

Topics: Energy crisis, power prices, renewable rollout, net zero targets, community division, Mallee's Biggest survey, transmission line costs, vanilla slices

Labor is totally disconnected from the pain households and small businesses are feeling in their energy bills and the reality that their net zero goals and renewable energy targets.

Topics: Pro-Palestine rally, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Melbourne protests, energy policy, net zero, renewable energy, transmission costs, VNI West project, police resources

No matter what Energy Minister Chris Bowen says in Question Time, e.g. citing wholesale not household energy prices, power prices are going up and will keep climbing if the Albanese Government backs the Allan Government's VNI-West plans

Topics: Recognising State of Palestine, Question Time, Energy Prices, Melbourne protest against National Electricity (Victoria) Amendment (VicGrid Stage 2 Reform) Bill 2025

Farmers face fines of up to $12,000 if they refuse access to Transmission Company Victoria, an arm of the Victorian government, to build the VNI West transmission line.

Unrealised capital gains are increases in asset value purely on paper, not actual gains because the asset, e.g. the farm or business premises, which has not been sold. Some farmers have told me they will have to sell some land to pay ...