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October 30, 2026

Turning Advocacy into Action for Prime Agricultural Land

At the start of 2026 I drafted the Prime Agricultural Land Protection Bill to stop federal funding diminishing prime agricultural land. Matt Canavan tabled that Bill in the Senate in his first act as Nationals leader.

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October 24, 2026

Violence Has No Place in Australian Democracy

Our democracy also depends on remembering that the person we are debating is still a human being, representing their community and the interests that put them there. Photo by Jason South C/o The Age

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October 22, 2026

Regional Families, Farmers and Small Businesses Paying the Price for Labor’s Decisions

Liberals and Nationals introduced a bill to stop further Commonwealth buybacks of permanent Murray-Darling Basin water entitlements. Labor is blindly pursuing an additional 450 gigalitres and the water market is going up like a rocket.

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October 16, 2026

Mallee's Health Concerns Front and Centre in Canberra

The Coalition won the fight this week in the Senate to reject Labor's cut to private health insurance rebates for Australians aged over 65.

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September 30, 2026

Potholes have become the evidence of a state in tragic decline

The Albanese Labor Government cut federal funding for Victorian road projects by $113.5 million in the most recent Federal Budget.

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September 26, 2026

Tri-State Regional Aged Care Forum

The strongest message from the room was not that aged care itself is failing. It was that older Australians are struggling to access care in the first place.

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September 25, 2026

Farmers and our food security like a political football

The broadacre harvest is upon us, yet Labor has stranded up to 50 per cent of the skilled workforce needed to get the crop in.

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September 18, 2026

Albanese Labor Government treating farmers / food security like a political plaything

The broadacre harvest is upon us, yet Labor has stranded between 30 to 50 per cent of the skilled workforce needed to get the crop in. It is beyond condemnation.

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September 11, 2026

Labor proposes a 30 per cent minimum tax on income from the discretionary trusts

Labor’s instinct is to redistribute wealth. The Coalition’s instinct is to create wealth— by backing Australians who take risks with their own capital, build businesses and employ others.

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