Federal Nationals Member for Lyne, Alison Penfold, has called on WIN Television to immediately rule out staff redundancies and guarantee there will be no reductions in local news crews across the Hunter, Mid North Coast, and Northern NSW following reports of significant cuts to NBN News. Reports indicate weekday local news coverage will be reduced…
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The Albanese Labor government is unable to name one small business that supports its Budget and higher taxes. Senate Estimates revealed Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayres was unable to name even one small business in favour of its Budget, or a business he had met or consulted with since the Budget was handed…
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Working families in Gooloogong are being forced to cut back on work and travel long distances for care, as the town continues to wait for certainty regarding early childhood education and after-school services. The local P&C says families feel they have been ‘strung along’ after three years of working in good faith with the NSW…
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Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Federal Nationals Member for Riverina, Michael McCormack, has welcomed the latest reversal of funding cuts affecting veterans, while questioning why it took sustained public pressure to force the government’s hand not once, but three times. “This is now the third backflip we’ve seen from this government on matters that…
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Shadow Minister for Agriculture Brendan Moylan has called on the Minns Labor Government to urgently engage with the Albanese Labor Government to protect the future of Australia’s honey bee industry. Industry leaders have warned the varroa mite incursion in NSW is escalating rapidly and current measures are failing to manage and eradicate its spread. Mr…
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A NSW Parliamentary Committee has recommended increasing upfront disaster payments to primary producers and to completely overhaul a grants system that has become overly bureaucratic – changes championed by NSW Nationals committee members Scott Barrett MLC and Member for Clarence Richie Williamson. The Joint Select Committee on the NSW Reconstruction Authority has tabled its final…
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The Nationals are demanding Prime Minister Anthony Albanese call an election, after the Labor Party introduced tax changes today that they didn’t have the guts to take the Australian people. Nationals Leader, Matt Canavan, said the Prime Minister owed it to Australians to call an election immediately, after betraying Australian families, businesses, and farmers. “Today…
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Women, mothers, and families on the South Coast have been abandoned after the Minns Labor Government admitted it had broken its election promise to restore birthing services at Milton Ulladulla Hospital. The criticism follows the Minister for Health’s recent comments, where he conceded that returning birthing services at the Hospital was “not really possible to…
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State Nationals MP for Clarence, Richie Williamson, has announced Casino Cricket Club has received a $10,000 funding boost through the NSW Government’s Local Sport Grant Program to support important upgrades to the club’s turf cricket facilities at Queen Elizabeth Park in Casino. Mr Williamson recently joined club representatives and players at the grounds to officially…
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Nationals Leader Matt Canavan has met farmers and farming groups, reiterating the promise to scrap Labor’s capital gains tax (CGT) changes, to protect Australian farmers. Speaking at Bungendore, Senator Canavan said a future Nationals Government would immediately stop all of Labor’s bad taxes, including changes made to the capital gains tax, which will also impact…
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