Monday 9 September 2024 Mildura and the Grampians’ selection as trial sites for a ‘single employer model’ is a boost for local doctor recruitment, Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster MP said today. “Within months of being appointed Shadow Minister, in March 2023 I organised the national Regional…
DetailsFriday 6 September 2024 Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP will stand with Mallee farmers and her Nationals colleagues shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds more farmers from across the country on September 10, in an unprecedented rally against Labor’s anti-farming ideology. Dr Webster said Labor is destroying agriculture and making life impossible for producers of food…
DetailsTranscript – Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health – Dr Anne Webster MP, Member for Mallee – Interview with Prue Bentley, ABC Victoria – Thursday 6 September 2024 – 5:05pm BENTLEY: Our colleagues at ABC Mildura – Swan Hill, Ailsa Kennedy and Tamara Clarke have been looking into this. They have found that there is…
DetailsMonday 2 September 2024 Mallee residents and small businesses are being gaslit by an Albanese Government with grievances against everyone but themselves, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers spent the weekend attacking Peter Dutton and the Reserve Bank of Australia (‘RBA’). Labor’s poor public standing is demonstrated by the Prime…
DetailsLate August 2024 The Albanese Labor government crow about increasing wages and subsidies for childcare, but Mallee families are stranded in a childcare desert, with long waiting lists or – in some towns – no childcare service at all. Childcare is an essential service in modern, regional Australia – without it, young families will leave…
DetailsLate August 2024 While the Albanese Labor government crow about increasing wages and subsidies for childcare, Mallee families are stranded in a childcare desert, with long waiting lists or – in some towns – no childcare service at all. Childcare is an essential service in modern, regional Australia – without it, young families will leave…
DetailsTuesday 20 August 2024 The Albanese Labor Government should not be proceeding with their Murray-Darling Basin water buybacks while the quietly released evidence shows farmers have returned environmental water by many magnitudes more than Labor’s buyback target, the Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “The Basin Authority has quietly released its 2022-23 report…
DetailsAugust 2024 After a whirlwind of winter visits across the Mallee electorate I have returned to Canberra for a sitting fortnight and in the first week I was talking about Labor’s ‘Future Made in Australia’ Bill, likening Labor’s use of the term ‘Made in Australia’ to Mickey Mouse’s sorcerer’s apprentice in Disney’s 1940 classic, Fantasia.…
DetailsWednesday 14 August 2024 The Albanese Labor Government have questions to answer about today’s announcement by Telstra and Optus that they will further delay the closure of their 3G networks, the Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster MP said today. “For four months I have publicly called for…
DetailsThursday 9 August 2024 Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP said she was very disappointed in today’s report from a fast-track Senate inquiry into the shutdown of digital television in Mildura. The inquiry into Labor’s Bill to offer VAST satellite services to Mildura residents, at costs estimated to up to $1,000 per household, handed…
Details7-9 August 2024 I am grateful to the many farmers and community members who came to see me at the Mallee Machinery Field Days at Speed on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Farmers are rightfully angry about mining and energy projects, and other threats to their ability to feed and clothe the nation and the…
DetailsTuesday 6 August 2024 Telstra and Optus should delay their proposed shutdown of the 3G network until Mallee residents have been assisted properly into 4G – or the Albanese Government should force them to, Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster said today. Dr Webster’s call came after a…
DetailsMonday 5 August 2024 As Australia’s women shine in Paris and on the international sporting stage, Mallee communities are missing out on sporting facilities due to delays in the Albanese Government’s ‘Play our Way’ sporting grants program, Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster said today. “Australia’s sportswomen are…
DetailsWednesday 31 July 2024 The Albanese Labor Government must act on cost-of-living and stop foreign corporations’ gouging of struggling energy customers by halting Victoria’s Transmission Plan, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. Dr Webster has been on the attack after the Victorian Government Transmission Plan mapping revealed her electorate is being targeted in…
DetailsWednesday 31 July 2024 Member for Mallee and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster says Rex Airlines should be treated as an essential service for regional Australia, not merely ‘pretty important’ as described by Transport Minister Catherine King. Rex entered voluntary administration yesterday, appointing Ernst & Young as administrators. The regional airline…
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