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Nationals Leader David Littleproud has welcomed news China will lift its ban on five Australian beef exporters, effective immediately. The exporters are the Kilcoy Pastoral Company, Meramist, Beef City, Dinmore, and the Northern Cooperative Meat Company at Casino. The meatworks had been trading beef worth around $1 billion when they were locked out of China…

Photograph: Carlie Porteous (Executive Officer – Softwoods Working Group), Jake Lazarus (General Manager – Southern Cross Forests), Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke, Dallas Goldspink (Fibre and Forestry Manager – Visy), Dean Hawkins (GM – Fibre Resources), Jock Harris (Managing Director – High Country Logging). Nationals Member for Cootamundra and Shadow Minister for Crown Lands Steph…

The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee has released a report which recommends investment in the financial services available in rural and regional Australia to make up for the loss of services from bank closures in recent years. There are 596 Australian towns which once had a major bank branch but now do…

Ralph Hunt was one of the great figures in our Party’s history. Born in Narrabri in March 1928, he passed away in 2011 at the age of 83. Mr Hunt was elected to federal parliament as the Member for Gwydir in a by-election in June 1969 and held the seat until he retired in 1989.…

Federal Nationals Member for Riverina Michael McCormack has welcomed more than $10 million in funding under the Growing Regions Program. Mr McCormack said he was really pleased the communities of Wagga Wagga, Cowra, and Parkes will be receiving funding to support the development of local community and economic infrastructure. “Wagga Wagga City Council is set…

Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism, Kevin Hogan said this week’s Albanese Labor budget has failed to provide any relief or assistance for Australian winemakers. Mr Hogan said the industry is battling unsustainable low grape prices, an oversupply of wine, and increasing economic disadvantage in regional Australia. “It is clear how dire the situation is…

Clarence Nationals MP Richie Williamson said a petition signed by 6000 Clarence residents against the NSW Government’s decision to scrap the Ulmarra to Southgate ferry service should be enough for Labor to reverse the decision. Mr Williamson said the ferry has served the community for 100 years. “When the Government drove the last nail into…

Nationals Member for Myall Lakes, Tanya Thompson, has tabled a petition from the Manning Great Lakes Community Health Action Group, which calls on the Labor Government for increased funding for the redevelopment of Manning Base Hospital. Mrs Thompson said she was proud to have delivered the petition, which was presented to the Clerk’s office at…

Federal Nationals Member for Lyne, Dr David Gillespie, is encouraging people from across the electorate with chronic telecommunications problems to speak directly to the Regional Telecommunications Review Committee which is scheduled to visit next week. Dr Gillespie said the Review Committee has scheduled a public meeting on Friday May 24 at the CWA Wauchope Branch,…

Thousands of NSW residents will be able to receive treatment for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) at their local pharmacy, with landmark reforms introduced under the former Nationals Government now made permanent. Following a successful trial that began in November 2022, pharmacists will have the ability to provide consultations and prescriptions for UTIs from June 1.…

Nationals Leader David Littleproud said common sense has prevailed, after confirmation the Senate crossbench will block Labor’s disastrous and ill-thought-out fresh food tax. The Nationals have spent the past year campaigning with farmers and industry against Labor’s biosecurity protection levy, which would have hurt both families and farmers. “This is a win for families, a…

Federal Nationals’ Leader David Littleproud said an unprecedented walk-out by the National Farmers’ Federation and other industry representatives during Agriculture Minister’s Murray Watt post-Budget speech is embarrassing and entirely of Labor’s own making. Representatives from the NFF, Wool Producers Australia, Sheep Producers Australia, Cattle Australia, Australian Livestock Export Council, WA Farmers, AgForce Queensland, and NSW…

Nationals Member for Page, Kevin Hogan, says the Albanese Labor Budget means everything will continue to cost more for longer. “Prime Minister Albanese promised this would be a ‘true Labor budget’ and we know what this means,” Mr Hogan said. “A big spending, big taxing con job that fails to tackle inflation or meaningfully address…

Federal Nationals Leader David Littleproud said Labor has continued to ignore regional Australia in its Budget, cutting regional infrastructure projects and failing to provide new money for regional programs. “The Prime Minister said when he was elected two years ago, ‘no one would be held back, no one would be left behind,’ but that’s only…