Celebrating our local seniors

Nationals Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke is encouraging the community to celebrate the positive role seniors play in the local area by nominating them for the 2024 NSW Seniors Festival Local Achievement Awards. Nominations are now open for the awards program, with the winners to be announced during the NSW Seniors Festival, which takes place…

$51,704 facelift for Forster Gallery

Forster Gallery will be refurbished after the Great Lakes Art Society secured a $51,704 grant from the NSW Government Infrastructure Grants Program. Nationals Member for Myall Lakes, Tanya Thompson, said Forster Gallery are one of three Myall Lakes organisations to receive a share in $355,124 through the August round of the Clubgrants Category 3 fund.…

Community anger over proposed transmission line route

A proposed high voltage transmission line that will run through prime agricultural land in the Dungowan, Woolomin, and Loomberah areas has outraged farming families. EnergyCo has plans to build transmission towers on farming land with the lines sitting over the top of several private properties in the Tamworth Electorate. Nationals Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson…

Labor let supermarkets off the hook over 12 months ago

Federal Nationals Leader David Littleproud has revealed he offered the Albanese Labor Government support to bring forward its Grocery Code of Conduct Review by 12 months, but was rejected because Labor could not see the urgency in taking action. Mr Littleproud wrote to Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh in December 2022, encouraging and offering…

McCormack backs ACCC price inquiry

Federal Nationals Member for Riverina Michael McCormack is backing calls for the Federal Government to establish an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) inquiry into fruit and vegetable pricing at supermarkets. “I unequivocally support the calls for an ACCC inquiry into fruit and vegetable prices, which we have seen skyrocket amid Labor’s cost-of-living crisis,” Mr…