"... more regional Australians are being left out-of-pocket for essential healthcare. During a cost-of-living and fuel price crisis, Labor is shifting healthcare costs onto regional Australians who have reduced access to alternative services.”

TOPICS: Labor’s housing targets, regional aged care, Queensland Government and Twiggy Forrest, green hydrogen

“Australian farmers, our transport & manufacturing industries and motorists need fuel supplies to be supplemented by biodiesel and ethanol production, and the combined wine oversupply and fuel undersupply crisis justifies Commonwealth investment

“So many Australians are waiting for organ donation and the circumstances where organs can be donated can be time-critical and very narrow. That’s why it’s critical we do everything we can to encourage many Australians to register."

I am pleased to see the Victorian Farmers’ Federation are pushing for something similar prioritisation of our best farming land in the lead up to November’s Victorian State election.

“Cutting support for a service which helps people stay connected is cutting in exactly the wrong place. Regional Australians deserve certainty – not silence," Dr Webster said.

Through a ministerial determination — with no public consultation — the Government has extended GST to some everyday living services in residential aged care.

As wars in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon continue and our American ally asks Australia to assist in the Strait of Hormuz, the rapidly passing months of 2026 unfold a world that appears, for some of us, to be suddenly transformed.

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