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Mount Arapiles climbing back into tourism fold – after a sorry chapter - shows why national cultural heritage reform needed - Media Release

“The Nationals stand with regional shires and residents pushing for real solutions to help more Australians achieve the great Australian dream of home ownership.”

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Interview with Chris Kenny, Sky News 'The Kenny Report' - Transcript - Thursday 16 October 2025

Topics: National and Liberal Parties, Road Speed Limits, proposal to reduce Speed Limits to as low as 70 km/h, Productivity

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Shadow Minister hits out at Albanese Government plan to slash speed limits on neglected rural roads - Media Release

“How about they just fix the bloody roads?” – The Nationals’ Dr Anne Webster MP on the Albanese Labor Government’s plan to reduce default national speed limits to as low as 70 kilometres an hour on sealed and unsealed roads

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Regional housing summit in Bendigo demands action on housing supply chain - Media Release

“The Nationals stand with regional shires and residents pushing for real solutions to help more Australians achieve the great Australian dream of home ownership.”

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Column
‘Gap fee’ at the doctors is $49.14.  Not zero.

Worse still, when asked ‘when will that gap fee get to zero?’ - as the Albanese Government had promised – the Department said the out-of-pocket cost of seeing the doctor will probably go UP.

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Farmers and family business owners cheer as Labor’s unrealised capital gains tax grab is toppled - Media Release

“Labor’s plan to punish Australia’s hardest workers and attack their unrealised superannuation gains was shocking from the start and never should have happened.

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Column
Outage had tragic consequences

I am also proud to be the first ever Opposition MP to hold Regional Communications as a Shadow portfolio. The Nationals fought hard for this new Shadow portfolio because Regional Communications needs continuous focus as essential infrastructure

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Protecting children online - Speech on Motion - 9 October 2025

"..Australians are reeling from the sentence imposed against a person for the sexual abuse of their five-year old daughter at least 19 times, producing 77 files of child abuse material and sending it to a US paedophile"

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Column
The Communications Minister ducked and weaved

Sadly it took the tragic deaths of 4 Australians due to Optus’ second outage last month for the Albanese Government to bring legislation into the Parliament to properly establish the Custodian.

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