The 2018 show season got underway on August 17 with big crowds at the Perenjori Show. Since then we’ve had the Mingenew Expo, Dowerin Field Day and shows at Mullewa and Chapman Valley, with Northampton, Moora and Toodyay Shows yet to come. Please drop in to the Nationals tent and say hello. My colleagues joined…
DetailsThe Nationals WA Senate candidate Nick Fardell has called on the major parties to immediately legislate a GST floor to secure WA’s financial future. Mr Fardell said with the major parties reportedly now in agreement on a GST solution for WA, there was no need to wait until after the election to act. “The major…
DetailsA WA motion calling for a 75c GST floor to be enshrined in legislation has today won the support of the Federal National Party at its annual conference in Canberra. The motion, put forward by The Nationals WA Senate candidate Nick Fardell, comes almost seven years since Tony Crook – the then Nationals WA Member…
DetailsThe Nationals WA are demanding Labor use a portion of proceeds from the McGowan Government’s latest cash grab to reverse its “mean” education funding cuts. Finance spokesperson Terry Redman today moved an amendment to the Government’s proposed Foreign Buyers Surcharge legislation which, if passed, would see a 7 per cent tax imposed on foreign persons…
Details29 June 2018 Member for Roe Peter Rundle has welcomed the Labor Government’s funding for aged care projects across Roe that will allow regional senior citizens to remain in their communities. Broomehill, Cranbrook, Katanning and Kojonup communities will share in $13.1 million to build and expand accommodation, while the Cuballing, Wickepin and Narrogin communities…
Details27 June 2018 Member for Roe Peter Rundle says he is bitterly disappointed that Labor failed to support an amendment to the Heritage Bill that would have seen the future of the state’s three remaining jetties protected in legislation. During debate yesterday Member for North West Central Vince Catania moved an amendment calling for the…
DetailsAfter 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…
DetailsPeter Rundle MLA and Hon Colin de Grussa MLA at the 2018 LambEx Conference The Nationals WA agriculture and food spokesman Colin de Grussa has called on the industry to unite to create a ‘one stop shop’ for trusted information on agriculture. During his Nuffield Scholarship study tour in 2014, Mr de Grussa met with…
DetailsMoore MP Shane Love MLA has congratulated regional communities for their successful campaign that has today seen Labor reverse its heartless cuts to CRCs statewide but stressed that the fight to save Moora College continues. The McGowan government confirmed a 40 percent funding cut to the state’s 105 CRCs in its first budget, impacting CRC…
DetailsMember for Moore Shane Love MLA has welcomed funding of $1.26 million to groups in the Mid West and Goodlands under the first round of the Digital Farms program. Mr Love said the project was basically a rebranding of the $22 million State Agricultural Telecommunications Infrastructure Improvement Fund, an initiative of the Nationals WA in…
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