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…
Motorists are being urged to slow down and take care when travelling this October long weekend. Double demerits will be in force as police Operation Labour Day starts at 12:01 tomorrow morning, Friday October 4, and ends at 11:59pm on Monday, October 7. Police will be targeting drink and drug driving, fatigue, mobile phone use,…
Federal Nationals Member for Page, Kevin Hogan, is making sure 32 young Northern Rivers Sporting Champions are given every opportunity to follow their dreams. At a Local Sporting Champions Award event in Lismore, they were presented with a certificate in recognition of their achievements and confirmed their grants from the Local Sporting Champions program. “Those…
Nationals Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke, has joined in the celebrations at the Weethalle Showground, marking a hundred years since the small town was established. Ms Cooke opened the event, crowning parade winners with ribbons, and enjoying food generously prepared by the Local Lions Club. She said the event was testament to the strong community…
The first hearings for the Parliamentary inquiry into community safety in regional and rural communities will take place this week, hearing from locals in Bourke tomorrow and Broken Hill on Wednesday. In March the Minns Labor Government finally announced the long overdue inquiry into the escalating crime crisis, following sustained pressure by The Nationals. Nationals…
A damning report on supermarket behaviour from the consumer watchdog has vindicated The Nationals’ ongoing calls for immediate action to stop alleged price gouging of farmers and families. The ACCC’s 266-page Interim Report from its Supermarket Price Inquiry accuses Woolworths and Coles of operating within an “oligopoly” through their combined 67 per cent share of…
The Minns Labor Government is putting student outcomes across NSW at risk by failing to land a school funding deal with the Commonwealth. Education Minister Prue Car formally rejected an offer by the Albanese Government to increase its share of school funding to 22.5 per cent, which would have injected an additional $4.1 billion into…
Nationals Member for Oxley, Michael Kemp, has spoken up in Parliament in support of nurses and midwives, who rallied yesterday demanding a long-overdue 15 per cent pay rise. Mr Kemp emphasised the crisis facing regional hospitals, where staff shortages have led to ward closures in Dorrigo, Bellingen, and Macksville. “Nurses are asking for a necessary…
