Senator Bridget McKenzie will spend Friday afternoon with carers from Brainlink at the ‘Changed Lives’ carer’s workshop in Traralgon where she will welcome the Productivity Commission’s report into Disability Care and Support and discuss it’s potential. Brainlink is a community based care and education organisation that focuses on the effect of acquired brain disorders. The…
DetailsToday’s news that an Australia-bound apple consignment contained disease threats shows the Australian Government should have heeded warnings from Victoria’s apple and pear growers. The Nationals’ Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, said this after news broke that a consignment of New Zealand apples contained leaf trash and a leaf curling midge. “The Federal Government and…
DetailsThe Nationals’ newest Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, says it is up to politicians to show leadership in reaping benefits for the nation from both the two-speed economy and internet technology. Senator McKenzie, 41, took her seat in Federal Parliament on July 1, and formally addressed her Senate colleagues for the first time today. She…
DetailsSince becoming a Senator for Victoria on July 1 this year, Bridget McKenzie has hit the ground running. She has established her electorate office in Bendigo and is the first Federal Senator in almost two decades to choose the State’s most central city as an operational base. The various enterprises obvious in Bendigo and across…
DetailsNationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has slammed Bendigo East MP Jacinta Allan for politicising the state public service and issuing misleading news releases. For clarification, Senator McKenzie did not attend the opening of the Department of Premier and Cabinet office yesterday, nor as the Premier confirmed were any local MPs invited. “The only one misleading Bendigo…
DetailsThe Nationals Senate Leader and Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water, Senator Barnaby Joyce has commended the initiative of the recently sworn-in Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie in establishing her electorate office in regional Victoria. He made the comment in Bendigo when opening Senator McKenzie’s electorate office. He told around 70 guests that…
DetailsThe Nationals’ Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie is mustering support from Federal and State politicians of every political stripe for the State’s apple and pear growers. At a weekend meeting with local growers at the Harcourt Co-Op Cool stores, Senator McKenzie was briefed on the risk of fire blight being introduced to Australia by the…
DetailsGoulburn Valley apple and pear growers are being treated as second class citizens by the Gillard government, which could result in major financial and job losses in the region. The Nationals Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie has met growers and packers at Ardmona to hear their concerns over the importation of New Zealand apples into…
DetailsThe heat remains on the Gillard Government to provide relief to Gippsland families left out in the cold by cuts to ‘Take a Break’ funding. New Victorian Senator Bridget McKenzie has given her backing to the efforts of Nationals Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, who has been fighting in Canberra to ensure that the funding…
DetailsDouble standards in quarantine arrangements threaten the viability of Victoria’s apple and pear industry. The Nationals Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie met industry representatives in Canberra today to hear their concerns over Biosecurity Australia’s recent decision to allow New Zealand apples into Australia without quarantine restriction. “Our border security has been sacrificed to New Zealand…
Details