The mood at recent Field Days has been soured by the looming threats to farming from industrial-scale energy projects and mining operations. I will emphasise every time that social licence is paramount.

“Mallee residents already have UOMO – the Unavoidability Of Missing Out – after three wasted years under Labor. It wasn’t so under the Coalition, with mobile black spots funded.

It was my great pleasure to bring Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. Milton Dick, to Wimmera Lutheran College Horsham campus on Monday morning.

During their destructive three years in office, Labor has failed to fund one mobile black spot in Mallee, which takes in over one third of Victoria.

“The Coalition recognises the urgent need for better access to bulk billed services in the middle of Labor’s healthcare crisis. That is why a Dutton-Littleproud Coalition Government will match the $8.5 billion investment into Medicare."

“This is typical of Labor’s dismissive, scorched-earth approach to regional Australia. Zero engagement, zero interest, just send a public servant to respond," Dr Webster said.

Australians have watched on with envy as similar nations such as Canada, the USA, Europe and New Zealand cut rates by 1 to 2 per cent, and all we have until the RBA’s next meeting in April is ¼ of a per cent.

My call to the Federal Minister has been to urge that the Grampians region receives a tourism support package to encourage people to book holidays in the region, and businesses receive support– exactly what Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton

"The Coalition demonstrated late last year that our energy transition will cost 44 per cent less than Labor’s plans which include 900 kilometres of the NSW-SA interconnector transmission lines which will now cost $1.5 billion more