Mildura businesses have shown their support for a petition by Federal Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster and State Member for Mildura Jade Benham MP, calling for a heavy vehicle bypass to reduce heavy vehicle traffic on Deakin Avenue. Dr Webster delivered the petition to 12 Mildura CBD businesses along Deakin Avenue. “The message from…
DetailsThe cancellation of Bonza’s flights places serious doubt over its future, and is distressing for Mildura families Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. “Affordable air travel to and from Mildura is essential,” Dr Webster said. “Bonza opened the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast to families by providing an affordable direct route and a cheaper,…
DetailsMining company VHM has displayed contempt for the community in its planning and assessment of environmental effects for its Goschen Rare Earth and Mineral Sands Project near Lalbert, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. Dr Webster met with VHM last week, telling the company she would back the farming community whose livelihoods are put…
DetailsLabor’s Electric Vehicle dream will cost Mallee farmers and tradies looking for their next work ute, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. The world’s top selling electric ute, the Ford F-150 Lightning, is now available in Australia from an eye watering $224,990. Meanwhile the price of popular models such as the Ford Ranger and…
DetailsA Senate committee will today investigate Labor’s fresh food tax and the damage it will cause by driving up the cost-of-living and making groceries more expensive. Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster said the fresh food tax bill, which is due to be implemented on July 1 if it passes the Senate, is as an…
DetailsLabor’s proposed Fresh Food Tax will funnel millions into Government coffers annually with no clarity how it will be implemented, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. Labor plans to impose the new Biosecurity Protection Levy (BPL) from July 1st, despite the Bill not yet passing the Senate and just 7 Senate sitting days left. A…
DetailsOngoing bad policy by the Albanese Labor Government is crippling agricultural workforce and is yet another example of Labor’s war on productivity, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. Looming 25 per cent visa fee rises and changes to UK backpacker rules to remove the 88-day regional work incentive from July 1, takes away critical…
DetailsLabor has let down local Governments by failing to deliver on its promise of increased funding, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. After initially stalling any funding increases by opening an Inquiry into Local Government Sustainability, the Labor-controlled committee responsible has had to extend the deadline for submissions to the end of May. “Pushing…
DetailsThe Albanese Labor Government’s revised Nature Positive proposals are only positive for bloated bureaucracy and more green tape for business, farmers and other job creators, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster. The second stage of Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s ‘Nature Positive Plan’ creates a new Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a new organisation called…
DetailsThe Nationals’ public pressure applied to Woolworths and Coles is helping to keep shelf prices steady at the big supermarkets, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair Allan Fels told the Senate Inquiry into grocery prices this week that the spotlight on two supermarket giants’ market power…
DetailsIndustry groups and Labor’s own hand-picked Productivity Commission Chair have already shot down Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s 2024-25 budget centrepiece, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. Labor’s proposed Future Made in Australia Act claims to drive investment into new and existing manufacturing and clean-energy technology projects. “Economists have already labelled this proposal as inflationary,…
DetailsFederal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek mysteriously reinstated federal funding for 58 gigalitres of Victorian Murray Darling Basin Plan projects today in an embarrassing backdown, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster says. The Minister was withholding funding for Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism (SDLAM) projects because Victoria had refused to join the NSW, Queensland and South…
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