"Connectivity is lifesaving and lifts our productivity in regional Australia. Surely telcos can deliver mandatory domestic roaming while ensuring universal coverage is affordable?"

Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP has welcomed the Victorian Farmers Federation’s 20-point plan for Victoria to have the strongest farmland protections in the nation, as she highlighted The Nationals - federally - had already moved protection

“Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd referred to the ‘solar energy revolution’ as the first panels were rolled out, and his successor Julia Gillard said it was Australia’s ‘clean energy future’ but we now know those claims were, literally, garbage"

TOPICS: Medical supplies to Australia, Australian sovereign capability, solar panels going to landfill, decommissioning of energy projects, National Disability Insurance Service (NDIS) rorting and viability, Thriving Kids program

"We grow vast hectares, thousands of hectares of canola and that canola, 70 per cent of it is currently shipped to Europe to turn into biofuel, so biodiesel to be exact."

“Minister Butler sprinkled ‘rural’ and ‘record’ in his comments today, but his record in fixing dire doctor workforce shortages in rural Australia is abysmal.

TOPICS: Albury Wodonga health forum, by-election prospects, Australian self-sufficiency, China restricting sulfur exports, agricultural impacts, Australia’s resource abundance, impact of net zero, farmer sentiment

The Nationals want Australia to once again be land of opportunity, aspiration, freedom and safety, with affordable housing, a fair go, strength and unity.

TOPICS: regional health forum in Albury, Labor attitude to regional seats, Nationals/Liberals on Albury health solutions, Farrer by-election, performance of Victorian health department in regions, parties of government delivering for regions