The McGowan Government continues to raid Royalties for Regions to pay for day-to-day government services. Leader Mia Davies has slammed Treasurer Ben Wyatt for a smoke-and-mirrors Budget which seeks to build a surplus on the back of cost-shifting more than $1 billion of core services into Royalties for Regions over the next four years. Labor…
The Labor Government is on notice with The Nationals WA warning any further moves to dismantle regional services and cut funding from the bush will incur an electoral backlash come 2021. Leader Mia Davies said regional communities had endured a difficult 14 months since Labor took power. “Look at what the community has already had…
The Nationals WA continue to pile pressure on the McGowan Government over Labor’s proposal to cut funding for Community Resource Centres in half. Leader Mia Davies, along with Warren-Blackwood MP Terry Redman and Roe MP Peter Rundle, today presented the Government with petitions featuring more than 1000 signatures protesting the CRC cuts. It comes after…
Federal Labor has again hung West Australian farming families out to dry with another proposed ban on the State’s live export industry. The Nationals WA Leader Mia Davies said Western Australia would be disproportionately punished under Labor’s disastrous plan. “WA farmers account for 85 per cent of the nation’s live sheep trade,” Ms Davies said.…
The Nationals WA have welcomed today’s announcement of Federal funding for the Water for Food Myalup-Wellington project, kick-started by Royalties for Regions and The Nationals in Government. Leader Mia Davies said the long-held ambition of reducing salinity levels in Wellington Dam was championed by The Nationals as part of an initiative to expand irrigated agriculture…
The proliferation of new FIFO camps under the McGowan Government is of growing concern to The Nationals WA. Deputy Leader Jacqui Boydell has again raised the FIFO alarm after South African-based miner Gold Fields confirmed it was looking to build a new camp just 20km out of Leinster. A majority of Gold Fields employees are…
NATIONALS Member for the South West Region Colin Holt MLC has welcomed the recent announcement by Brownes that they will be restarting cheese production at their Brunswick Cheese Factory. Brownes, owned by Chinese dairy giant Shanghai Ground Food Tech, is investing $10 million to recommission the previously mothballed Brunswick cheese factory. At peak production it…
Nationals WA spokesman for road safety and Member for the Agricultural Region Hon Martin Aldridge MLC is urging motorists to slow down and enjoy the journey this Easter holiday weekend. As more road users get behind the wheel for their Easter holiday in regional Western Australia, Mr Aldridge said road safety should be a priority…
The Nationals WA have called for a special inquiry into a McGowan Government program which splurged $39 million of taxpayer money on pet Labor projects, including a Perth-based Chihuahua rescue service. Deputy Leader Jacqui Boydell today moved a motion in the Legislative Council urging the State Government to appoint a Special Inquirer under section 24…
The Upper House of the Western Australian Parliament is demanding the McGowan Government reverse its cruel cuts to regional education. A motion moved by The Nationals WA Deputy Leader Jacqui Boydell on Wednesday called for the Labor Government to honour its own election commitment to provide “a quality education to WA children and young people…