Joint media release with Paul Weller, Member for Rodney Member for Rodney, Paul Weller has claimed the proposed draft Murray Darling Basin Plan would not allow the region to recover on the back of its devastating 12 year drought. Following a recent Age report that stated house prices in communities throughout the Murray Darling Basin…
DetailsNationals Senator Bridget McKenzie, State Minister Jeanette Powell, and Member for Murray Valley Tim McCurdy joined 800 irrigators and community members in Shepparton today to listen to their concerns regarding the draft Murray Darling Basin Plan. “We travelled to Shepparton to hear first hand from industry and community leaders, from food producers, from business people,…
DetailsNationals Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, has congratulated local manufacturer Thales on being selected as Defence’s preferred supplier for up to 1300 of their Hawkei vehicles, in a contract worth potentially $1.5 billion. As part of the Land 121 Phase 4 project, the Hawkei was extensively tested and has now been chosen by Defence as…
DetailsNationals Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, is launching a new survey designed to help her act on the priorities of Central Victorians. Distributed over coming weeks via local newspapers, the survey will canvass the attitudes of people across Central Victoria – from Bendigo to Castlemaine and from Maldon to Mia Mia. “As a new Senator,…
DetailsVictorian Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie listened in amazement in Bendigo this morning as the Federal Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, Simon Crean spoke about new opportunities for economic diversification across the Murray Darling Basin. “He said that the Gillard Government is “determined to deliver the reforms for a healthy, working basin,”…
DetailsPhone and internet users throughout regional Victoria have been given an extra opportunity to have their say on the telecommunications their area needs, Bridget McKenzie, Nationals Senator for Victoria, said today. The Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee (RTIRC) is conducting a review into the adequacy of telecommunications, with particular attention to what consumers need to…
DetailsVictorian Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie is calling for more certainty in the wake of today’s announcement by the Murray Darling Basin Authority that a total of about 2 750 billion litres will be taken from farming and allocated to environmental flows. “The new Plan provides farmers in the Goulburn Valley with less information, less…
DetailsSenator Bridget McKenzie, Nationals Senator for Victoria, today expressed delight with an about-face from the Gillard Government to restore funding for Victoria’s occasional childcare services. Yesterday Labor joined with the Coalition, Greens and Independents to support a motion calling for the reinstatement of $12m in Australian Government support for occasional care. Senator McKenzie was particularly…
DetailsThe Nationals Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, says the co-location of primary health care services at Mansfield District Hospital makes medical as well as financial sense. Senator McKenzie and the Member for Benalla, the Member for Benalla, Bill Sykes, earlier this week toured the hospital and received a joint briefing by CEO Janene Ridley and…
DetailsThe Nationals Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, says all Central Victorians, but especially men and boys, should swear an oath ‘never to commit, excuse or remain silent about violence against women’ on White Ribbon Day tomorrow, 25 November. “Statistics continue to show that one in three women over the age of 15 experiences violence in…
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