Photo source: Visit Victoria website By NATALIE KOTSIOS MOUNTAIN cattlemen should be recognised nationally as a “living culture”, Victorian senator Bridget McKenzie says. The Nationals senator, who is attending this weekend’s Mountain Cattlemen Association annual get-together at Mitta, has also vowed to keep lobbying the Victorian Labor government to renew cattle grazing trials in the…
BY Colin Bettles ALLEGATIONS that Labor misused taxpayer dollars when administering the Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF) have reignited smouldering tensions between the Nationals and former federal independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott. The RDAF was established by the former Labor government in the $10 billion deal for regional Australia, securing the support of…
BY Rob Harris VICTORIA’s new Labor Government is being urged to allow the completion of a three-year alpine grazing trial. Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has called on new Premier Daniel Andrews not to shut down the trial, which began last year, for political reasons and instead await the results. Victorian Environment Minister Lisa…
THE Mountain Cattlemen Association (MCAV) of Victoria and supporters were very disappointed to learn via a radio interview today the cattle grazing trial in Wonnangatta Valley has been scrapped. The way it was announced by the newly appointed Environment Minister Lisa Neville was disrespectful, the MCAV said. MCAV president Charlie Lovick said the organisation wrote…
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: A week ago, the Prime Minister was trying to reboot his government's message in the hopes of ending the year on a high. Well if anything, his problems have only deepened since then and the latest concession to the Government's woes is that Tony Abbott's compromising on his pet policy on paid…
BY ANDREW MILLER 03 Dec, 2014 10:06 AM FEDERAL NATIONAL MP’s have played down claims the Victorian election was a poor result for the party. The party had retained Morwell and had not conceded defeat over David O'Briens Upper House seat of Western Victoria. Mallee MP Andrew Broad said the election result was just…
BY Lucy Barbour Updated yesterday at 5:44pm Mon 24 Nov 2014, 5:44pm One of the ABC's flagship rural programs, Bush Telegraph, has been axed as the national broadcaster deals with more than $250 million in funding cuts imposed by the Federal Government. Bush Telegraph is broadcast weekday mornings on Radio National and explores farming, mining,…
New tools for ‘seeing’ inside the living human body at the cellular level will be developed at a $38 million research centre being launched at the University of Adelaide today. The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics is bringing together physicists, biologists and chemists to develop ways of using light and…
A NATIONALS senator will seek assurances from the ABC that there’ll be no reduction in regional radio services. Hundreds of regional Victorians attended rallies in Ballarat, Bendigo and Wodonga today after the Federal Government confirmed the broadcaster would have its budget cut by $254 million over the next five years. Victorian Nationals Senator…
Nationals Senator, Bridget McKenzie, last week toured Ballan and Bacchus Marsh communities with the Nationals candidate for Buninyong, Sonia Smith.