Nationals Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke, has spoken with farmers impacted by severe frost as preparations for the wheat and canola harvest ramp up. Ms Cooke heard from agronomists working in Coolamon and Boorowa that a sudden frost in September had caused crop damage of up to $500 a hectare in badly affected paddocks, with…
Nationals Leader, David Littleproud, is reiterating a future Nationals Government will reinstate the live sheep export trade, following Labor’s announcement of disingenuous ‘extra funding’ for the ‘transition’ to phase out the trade. Mr Littleproud said the ‘extra’ $32.7 million shouldn’t be there in the first place. “Farmers don’t want compensation, they want their industry,” Mr…
Nationals Leader David Littleproud said Labor’s reasons for cancelling the Blayney gold mine are becoming “increasingly odd.” It’s been revealed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek blocked the $1 billion project after an Indigenous artist used her own paintings to argue the mine should be scrapped. The artist’s submissions opposing the project, made to the NSW Government,…
Nationals Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke, has welcomed the completion of purpose-built accommodation which will host new staff across three units at West Wyalong hospital. The units, part of the Key Worker Accommodation Program, will house health staff while they settle into the West Wyalong community, with fully furnished units providing a crucial home base…
Nationals’ MPs, the Hon Dr David Gillespie and Tanya Thompson, have taken part in a sod-turning ceremony to mark the beginning of construction of Taree’s long-planned Iron Arena project. In 2020 Dr Gillespie, the Federal Member for Lyne, and the late Stephen Bromhead, the former State Member for Myall Lakes, announced funding under the Bushfire…
Labor will provide a Statement of Reasons this week into its decision to scrap the Blayney Gold Mine tailings dam, following pressure in parliament from The Nationals. Nationals Leader David Littleproud said despite Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek promising a Statement of Reasons more than a month ago, mining company Regis Resources still hasn’t been given…
With the local government elections now complete, the focus shifts to the upcoming federal election. I have decided to step down from NSW Parliament to give my full attention to representing the people of Calare as your Nationals candidate. I will deliver my valedictory speech in the November sitting before formally resigning from the Parliament.…
Tamworth and the North-west’s State Emergency Service (SES) team members and volunteers have a new state-of-the-art command centre. Nationals Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson welcomed the official opening of the new centre, which brings the very best of modern coordination and communications capability to Tamworth. “This $6 million dollar facility will be a game changer…
Photograph: Assistant Commissioner Brett Greentree, Nationals Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, NSW Nationals Leader and Member for Dubbo Dugald Saunders, and Nationals candidate for Parkes Jamie Chaffey The Dubbo Regional Education Police Training Academy (RETC) has been officially opened in Dubbo. Sitting alongside the NSW Rural Fire Service training academy and Aviation Centre of Excellence,…
Picture: The Reverend Canon Camellia Flanagan, Nationals MP Richie Williamson, and The Very Reverend Naomi Cooke, Dean of Grafton The final stage of repair and restoration works to preserve Grafton’s historic Christ Church Cathedral is underway. Clarence Nationals MP Richie Williamson said the State Heritage-listed building is a vital part of the region’s history and…