Nationals Senator for Victoria Bridget McKenzie welcomed today’s announcement of no more water buybacks from irrigators and strengthened compliance within the Murray Darling Basin Authority that the Victorian Nationals have been pushing for. Today’s Murray–Darling Communities Investment Package means Victorian communities will share in an overhaul of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that will see over…
NATIONALS SENATE LEADER AND VICTORIA SENATOR BRIDGET MCKENZIE: We are appealing to our nation’s Premiers to demonstrate leadership and compassion tomorrow at national cabinet. We have seen the carnage that border closures are having in our communities, day in, day out. Lives are being ruined, businesses are closing, we’ve all heard the tragic stories about…
Wodonga-based Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie tonight in the senate called on state premiers to act in good faith and common-sense and use evidence over politics at this Friday’s National Cabinet so there’s an agreed definition of COVID hotspots and in determining where they are. This will ideally mean our COVID-free border communities will be able…
Our community of law-abiding hunters and sporting shooters have once again been unfairly singled out by Victoria Police who continue to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a method to strip away the rights of firearm owners. The Victoria Police have threatened to ‘reprimand, suspend or cancel’ licences of registered firearm owners who ‘blatantly and deliberately…
Wodonga-based Nationals Senate Leader Bridget McKenzie today welcomed the NSW government’s move to finally expand the border zone after six weeks of livelihoods being disrupted and even devastated. The NSW Premier today expanded the zone back to a 50 kilometre radius and eased restrictions to allow for necessary daily life activities. “The arbitrary two-kilometre zone…
The Labor Party and Greens today unsuccessfully attempted to shut down funding for a feasibility study into Australia’s first 1 GW High-Efficiency, Low Emission (HELE) coal-fired power station in Collinsville, Queensland. Labor has aligned itself with the extreme left and completely abandoned the very people they were established to represent. The Labor Party could not…
Today I spoke in the senate on the need to recognise the intent of the Murray Darling Basin Plan, being for production of food and fibre in our farming communities – not a plan solely focused on the environment that’s led to detrimental impacts. The Nationals say: No to a further 450GL for the environment…
The ACCC Water Market Inquiry Interim report makes it clear, over 542 pages, the current water market in the Murray Darling Basin is not working for irrigated agriculture or our communities. The report justifies and vindicates what irrigators have been saying for many years. Concerns highlighted in the report are not new to those of…
Better water market information and transparency will go a long way to improve the plight of water users in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin after years of uncertainty and frustration. Nationals Senate Leader Bridget McKenzie, NSW Senator Perin Davey, and Member for Mallee Anne Webster MP, said water users across the basin need better information and…
The Nationals Senate team has condemned the Greens for failing to back Australian agriculture and our world-leading live animal export industry. In opposing a Nationals motion backing Australia’s commitment and support for the $1.7 billion live animal export trade, The Greens thumbed their nose at the thousands of rural and regional Australians who rely on…