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September 10, 2025

Scales are tipped against local communities

The scales are tipped against local communities - as one former mayor put it to me this week, why can a company can spend 6 years preparing an EES proposal but the public, and their council, get just 6 weeks to respond to a 6,000 pages

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September 5, 2025

The Prime Minister’s answers particularly offensive.

I am proud to have taken Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to task in Question Time this week in Canberra on behalf of Mallee farmers

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September 2, 2025

Farmers protested in Spring Street

While draconian new powers apply to VNI West to the east of your readership, there are some very important principles in play. First is the fundamental democratic foundation of personal property rights.

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September 1, 2025

Albanese could not get out of Ballarat fast enough

How bizarre that the Labor Prime Minister would tell the Ballarat audience that farmers ought to be treated with respect, when Victorian Labor had just legislated to take away their property rights!

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August 30, 2025

Ballarat turned out in force

I stand with Mallee residents because they are right, they are suffering injustices and are receive zero respect from either Labor Federal or State Governments.

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August 29, 2025

Zero investment from a city-centric government

Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong have bloomed thanks to their proximity to Melbourne and the largesse of a Victorian Labor Government that cynically apportions taxpayer money (well, future debt actually) for political gain.

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August 13, 2025

Energy prices and labour costs are the two biggest threats!

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...

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August 6, 2025

Hell-bent on political targets

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.

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July 30, 2025

This tax grab is a Trojan Horse

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 ...

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