After months of calling for the McGowan Government to remove its head from the sand, The Nationals WA have welcomed Labor’s latest backflip to trial SMART drum lines off the South West coast. Fisheries spokesperson Colin de Grussa said a series of meetings with NSW Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair had convinced him of the…
Member for Moore Shane Love MLA has welcomed Building Better Regions funding worth $500,000 announced recently for the Three Springs Early Childhood Learning Centre. The $1.63 million Three Springs child care facility was granted $300,000 Royalties for Regions funding in the last term of government and Lotterywest funding of $250,000. Mr Love said a Shire…
Member for Moore Shane Love has called on the Labor Government to immediately reverse its decision to close Moora Residential College in the wake of the State’s GST windfall. WA is set to receive additional GST funds worth $4.7 billion over eight years following a Federal Government proposal. Mr Love said it was now time…
The McGowan Government’s bizarre decision to spend almost a quarter of a million dollars on an advertising campaign to tarnish the State’s relationship with the Commonwealth will be to the detriment of people living in remote communities across Western Australia. The Nationals WA Aboriginal Affairs spokesperson Terry Redman said the Government’s new $245,000 Don’t Walk…
Member for Moore Shane Love MLA has welcomed aged accommodation funding worth $2.5million for six new independent living units in Dongara. Mr Love said the latest $13.1 million state wide aged accommodation program was a vastly scaled back version of a comprehensive project approved by the last Government that was to see funding of $117…
Mark McGowan must rule out closing remote indigenous communities if his Government’s faux protest over a Commonwealth funding shortfall fails. This week the Premier labelled funding for remote housing “the number one issue in regional Western Australia”. He then blamed his Housing Minister’s inability to secure a new funding deal for remote housing on the…
The Nationals WA have launched a new campaign calling on the McGowan Government to broaden its tourism strategy and incentivise flights to all regional areas instead of just focusing on Broome. Tourism spokesperson Vince Catania said the Government had simply picked the low-hanging fruit by offering discounted fares on flights between Perth and Broome. He…
The Nationals WA are calling on the McGowan Government to initiate an immediate trial of SMART drum lines in the South West after hearing first-hand how effective the technology has been in New South Wales. Fisheries spokesperson Colin de Grussa, along with fellow MPs Terry Redman, Colin Holt and Peter Rundle, held meetings over the…
The Nationals WA Parliamentary team is in Albany for the next two days as the party kicks off a regional engagement program that will see portfolio holders meeting with community groups, businesses and local Government. Ms Davies said The Nationals had a strong track record of maintaining a connection with grassroots voters across the State…
The Nationals WA have launched a plan to extend the Munda Biddi Trail and Bibbulmun Track to Esperance, transforming WA’s south coast into one of the world’s premier nature-based tourism destinations. In Albany to launch the plan at today’s Albany Trail Town Workshop, Member for Warren-Blackwood Terry Redman said the south coast offered a unique…