One thousand Vietnamese farm labourers will arrive in Australia this year under The Nationals’ dedicated Ag Visa, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said. “I fought hard for the Ag visa as part of the former Coalition Government, it was a disgrace that Labor abandoned regional growers and scrapped the visa despite a memorandum of…
DetailsThe proponents of the VNI West transmission line have belled the cat that they never intended to listen to farmers in the firing line, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said this morning, after an eleventh hour withdrawal from talks she had organised in Tragowel and St Arnaud today. “I am disgusted that this government-run…
DetailsFacebook owner Meta’s decision to stop paying news publishers for content should sound the alarm bell for regional media outlets, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. The former Coalition government passed legislation in 2021 requiring platforms like Meta to pay Australian news outlets for content shared on their platforms. Meta’s media payment deals were…
DetailsLabor’s fresh food tax risks Mallee farmers’ productivity and Australia’s $100 billion goal for farm gate output by 2030, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. While Australia’s gross value of agricultural production had increased by about 51 per cent in the past 20 years, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences…
DetailsVictorian Labor’s attempt to again reboot consultation on transmission lines is an admission consultation has failed abysmally on VNI-West, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. The Allan Labor Government has introduced a Bill to establish VicGrid, claiming the new brand will ‘modernise the way new energy infrastructure is planned and developed in Victoria while…
DetailsAs we debate the Help to Buy Bill today, I want to reflect first on how we have come to be in a position where the Commonwealth has to help people buy a home. In 1984, it cost $64,000 to buy the average home, and an annual income back then was a shade over $19,000,…
DetailsI rise to speak on the Albanese Labor government’s misguided priorities for Australia. Mallee voters don’t buy Labor’s song-and-dance routine that they are the party of tax cuts. Stages one, two and three income tax cuts were under the coalition’s policy. On stage three, Labor told us 100 times they would back them in. Then…
DetailsNatural disaster victims’ allegations insurance companies have price gouged them need urgent investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. Skyrocketing premiums during a cost-of-living crisis have hit the hip pocket of Mallee residents affected by fire and floods over the past 18 months, yet insurance companies…
DetailsMember for Mallee Dr Anne Webster has welcomed the Emergency Management Minister’s decision late on Friday to grant Mallee’s Dadswells Bridge fire victims $1,000 per adult and $400 per child, from 2pm Monday. “I have been seeking this support since the fires, for those impacted at Dadswell Bridge,” Dr Webster said. However, Dr Webster said…
DetailsMember for Mallee Dr Anne Webster has slammed Labor’s new fresh food tax after it was introduced in Parliament earlier today, as farming groups’ opposition to the proposal builds up. “Labor continues to make a mess of its new fresh food tax during a cost-of-living crisis,” Dr Webster said, “Labor’s treatment of our farmers is…
DetailsThe Federal Government’s announcement of $1.44 million to further diversify Australia’s wool market is an added return on the investment the Coalition made in office, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster MP said. “As we know all too well in Mallee after China’s aggressive behaviour on tariffs against our wine and barley producers – and…
DetailsMallee residents are paying more to see the doctor and are finding it harder to access healthcare under the Albanese Labor Government, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health and Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said today. “Labor promised to strengthen Medicare but they have weakened it. It has never been harder or more expensive…
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