TOPICS: FACES report on aged care, delays and deaths in aged care, ministerial responsibility, transparency

“The Minister must urgently restore meaningful clinical oversight, ensure vulnerable older Australians receive proper face-to-face assessments and deliver approved care without these extraordinary delays.

“The Nationals have fought for and preserved the guarantee of at least 2,500 postal service points in rural and remote Australia. That guarantee has to mean something on the ground.

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.

Labor's answer is effectively to give affected families a choice: pay the minimum tax, restructure or surrender much of the discretion for which the discretionary trust exists in the first place. That is not simplification.

Labor has abolished the coalition's Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program, which gave untied money to councils so they could decide how the funding was spent locally.

Our farmers grow food and fibre, our businesses employ local people, hospitality and tourism businesses welcome Victorians to our amazing natural landscapes and our communities volunteer, innovate and contribute far beyond their size.

We will cut $9.4 billion from Labor's bloated climate bureaucracy and another $7.3 billion from corporate welfare. That means ending taxpayer funded subsidies for Labor's expensive green energy experiments.

"Mallee families, farmers and small businesses have been hit from every direction by higher power bills, higher interest rates and the consequences of Labor's expensive policy experiments railroading farms, dividing local communities and turning