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April 2, 2025

Tariffs on Australian goods

As the US applies global tariffs on goods entering the USA, US trade officials appear to forget that the USA has a trade surplus with Australia. Australia’s exports to the US stand at $16.7 billion US dollars, but the US sends more than double.

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April 1, 2025

$50,000 a year ($136 a day) worse off ...

The Albanese Government’s cruel approach to cost-of-living relief was on display in Canberra last week in an ugly and unexpected final sitting week.

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March 24, 2025

Remember Labor’s promise, made 97 times before the last election?

Under the Albanese Labor Government, electricity prices are up 32 per cent, mortgage repayments up 41 per cent, gas is up 35 per cent and insurance is up 33 per cent.

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March 12, 2025

The fabrications are astonishing

Imagine my surprise to read this week that the Swan Hill Emergency Department has opened, again, because the Allan Labor Government finally turned up for an ‘official opening’.

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March 5, 2025

Many emotions

I was so encouraged to see farming communities united in their passion and hope for the future, despite a drier season, a higher cost of doing business under Albanese and Allan Labor Governments.

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March 5, 2025

Struggling with the cost-of-living crisis?

Not only has income tax gone up 26.8 per cent, mortgage repayments are up 41 per cent, gas prices are up 35 per cent, insurance 33 per cent, the cost of bread 18 per cent and rent 15 per cent – to name just a few.

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February 28, 2025

The Nationals secured 43 mobile black spot investments in Mallee!

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.Worse still, they’ve created more black spots in a botched shutdown of the 3G network.

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February 27, 2025

Wimmera Machinery Field Days 2025 - Wimmera Column

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.

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February 24, 2025

Australian democracy and bipartisanship

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.

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