All drivers are being reminded of their responsibility behind the wheel this holiday season after ten people were killed on one of the worst weekends on NSW roads in decades. NSW Police has commenced its enforcement operation with Traffic and Highway Patrol Command officers working with local police across the state to stop drink and…
Steph Cooke – the shadow Water minister and Nationals Member for Cootamundra – has written in the Daily Telegraph today. Premier Chris Minns recently showed signs that he finally gets it – that he understands the future prosperity of NSW rests with the success of the regions. This concession followed the glaringly obvious observation that…
Upper Hunter Nationals MP Dave Layzell has congratulated Scone Swimming Club on securing a NSW Government grant of almost $135,000. Mr Layzell said the grant, coming just two months into the swimming season, is wonderful news. “It is a credit to the club for putting in its application for the funding which now allows them…
Federal Nationals Member for Lyne, Dr David Gillespie, has announced funding of $1.972 million to upgrade telecommunications infrastructure along the Pacific Highway corridor around Moorland and Raleigh. Dr David Gillespie said Telstra would undertake the improvements after securing the funds under Round 3 of the Regional Connectivity Program. The project will provide two new macro…
Local police ranks have been bolstered with the arrival of more police in the Oxley Police District. Two more probationary constables have commenced duties in the district today following a formal graduation ceremony in Goulburn on Friday. Nationals Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson MP welcomed the region’s two newest officers and thanked them for choosing…
Photo: Nationals Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh congratulates Coffs Coast Jump Club secretary Sally Hutchison (left) and board member Alita Childs Nationals MPs Gurmesh Singh and Pat Conaghan have welcomed the completion of a significant upgrade for the Coffs Coast Jump Club at its Coffs Harbour Showground headquarters. The Jump Club’s Christmas Showjumping Competition…
People in the Riverina and Central West are facing a tough Christmas this year thanks to Labor’s cost-of-living crisis. Nationals Member for Riverina, Michael McCormack, said more than 2,000 people descended on Wagga Beach car park on Wednesday this week to collect food and other essentials from Foodbank’s pop-up site. In 90 minutes, eight tonnes…
The Minns Labor Government is risking lives, as regional paramedics refuse to renew their professional registration over a pay dispute that is threatening to leave the state’s health system with mass shortages from January 1. Nationals Leader Dugald Saunders has met members of the Ambulance Division Health Services Union to hear first-hand what this will…
Seniors in the Myall Lakes can look forward to a range of exciting events and activities at the 2024 NSW Seniors Festival. Mrs Thompson said the theme of the 2024 Festival is ‘reach beyond’ and she is encouraging seniors to expand their horizons by trying a new activity or meeting new people. “We have so…
The Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium is celebrating the completion of a significant upgrade thanks to $190,000 in funding from the former Nationals Government. Nationals Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh joined Conservatorium Chair Lesley Schoer, Acting Artistic Director Dr Glen Hodges, and other members of the Con team to officially mark the completion of the…
Photograph caption: Steph Cooke was on hand to help officially open this year’s National Cherry Festival alongside (from left), Hilltops Deputy Mayor Alison Foreman, Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack, Hilltops Mayor Marg Roles, Young High School student Bella Charles, and reigning Cherry Queen Brianna Long. Nationals Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke has applauded all…
The children of the Dubbo electorate have unleashed their creativity in the annual Christmas card design competition. Each year Nationals Member for Dubbo, Dugald Saunders, calls for primary-school children across the electorate to help design his Christmas card, and this year Zeon Burger from St Mary’s in Dubbo took out first place. Zeon, who’s 12,…
Nationals Leader David Littleproud said the announcement of a Senate Inquiry into whether supermarket giants are price gouging won’t go far enough and will take too long. Mr Littleproud said The Nationals had long been calling for an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) price inquiry into the issue instead, which would have greater power…
Nationals Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke addressed the parliament on the importance of including Tresillian inpatient services as part of the Cowra Hospital redevelopment. Exactly one week ago today I was delivered news that as a local MP, you never want to hear. I was told that a much-needed and long-promised investment in the health…
At a time when Australians are suffering from cost-of-living pressures, they are now being forced to fund a massive job-destroying policy which will decrease the nation’s productivity, drive up the cost of living, and see more imported food on our supermarket shelves whilst diverting billions of dollars of taxpayers’ funding from health, education, roads, and…
