July 2024 Small businesses across Mallee have been telling me exactly what new data is indicating – more than half of them are considering closing their doors under the weight of the Albanese Labor Government’s policies. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (ACCI) Small Business Conditions Survey 2024 found that 57 per cent of…
DetailsThe joint-owners of Mildura Digital Television Pty Ltd should switch the 10, 10Bold and 10Peach signals back on and activate Sky News Regional in Mildura if the Commercial Broadcast Tax is repealed, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “WIN and SevenWest said before 30 June they were switching off the signal due to…
DetailsMember for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP has lamented Labor’s planned shutdown of parts of the Mallee economy with the open tendering of water buybacks opening today. “The Albanese Labor Government plans to reduce our economy despite the successful move by northern Victorian councils at the recent Australian Local Government Association conference in Canberra to…
DetailsMember for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster MP says she is incensed that 6 of the 10 Victorian shires on reduced Roads to Recovery funding increases are in the Mallee electorate. While the Federal Labor Government is increasing the Roads to Recovery funding gradually from $500 million to $1 billion per year by 2027-28, Dr Webster…
DetailsSunraysia SOS to Skydance to get their new asset Ten back on the air in Mildura Dr Anne Webster MP has written to the CEO of Skydance urging that they acquire the Sunraysia Ten broadcast licence and put it back on air. The Member for Mallee’s Save our Signal (SOS) went out this morning after…
DetailsThe Federal Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP has welcomed the four Mallee sites that have received road Black Spot funding, but says the allocated money should be greater, exposing the Albanese Labor government’s poor record on road safety. “There should be a lot more Black Spot grants in Mallee and across regional Australia,…
DetailsTHE HON DAVID COLEMAN MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS DR ANNE WEBSTER MP FEDERAL MEMBER FOR MALLEE 5 July 2024 JOINT MEDIA RELEASE SENATE INQUIRY TO EXAMINE CLOSURE OF NETWORK TEN MILDURA The closure of the Mildura Digital Television service will now be the subject of a Senate inquiry. Shadow Communications…
DetailsThe latest Domain data on rent increases in regional Victoria demonstrate that the Albanese Labor Government have yet again failed Mallee voters on cost-of-living relief, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP said today. Swan Hill led regional Victoria with the highest year-on-year rent increase of 13.5 per cent to $420 median rent per week,…
DetailsNorthern Victoria secures national council opposition to devastating MDB water buybacks Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says the nation’s councils have endorsed Murray River councils’ view that Murray-Darling water buybacks will devastate the region and has called on the Federal Water Minister to halt Labor’s buyback plan. “I have written to Minister Plibersek this…
DetailsJOINT MEDIA RELEASE SHADOW MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS The Hon David Coleman MP MEMBER FOR MALLEE Dr Anne Webster MP Labor ‘shuffling the deckchairs’ in wake of sinking of TEN Mildura Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says she agrees with FreeTV’s assessment that regional media stakeholders are ‘shuffling the deckchairs’ after the sinking of Ten…
DetailsA Coalition Government would introduce a regulated vaping model to crack down on crime and keep vapes out of the hands of Australian children, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health Dr Anne Webster said today, hailing the outcome was a win for The Nationals, who have pushed for a regulation model for years. The Nationals…
Details25 June 2024 The lack of rain to the region hasn’t just wrecked the start to the cropping season for farmers, the lack of wind has been miserable for so-called wind ‘farms’ as well. Our first ‘wind drought’ since 2017 highlights what the Germans call dunkelflaute, or the ‘dark doldrums’ for renewable energy where the…
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