Volunteer Firefighting services in Tom Price and Carnarvon have dominated in the annual Firefighting Awards, with young and senior volunteers also being recognised as finalists. Nationals WA Member for North West Central Vince Catania has congratulated all of the local finalists in the various award categories: Team AchievementTom Price VBFB and VFRS Youth Achievement AwardCallum…
DetailsMember 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…
DetailsThe Nationals WA have sown the seeds for a new policy to utilise the near-dormant Mining Rehabilitation Fund (MRF) to create ongoing, on-country Aboriginal ranger jobs. Aboriginal Affairs spokesperson Terry Redman launched a policy discussion paper at today’s 5th annual On-Country Bush Meeting event at Yule River in the Pilbara. Mr Redman said The Nationals…
DetailsA State Government discussion paper reveals Mark McGowan would permit the roll out of virtual gaming machines to WA pubs and clubs despite blasting an identical proposal just two years ago. Labor’s “Future of the Western Australian TAB” discussion paper, released late last month, states the McGowan Government has agreed to consider the inclusion of…
DetailsMember 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsMember 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…
DetailsMark 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…
DetailsThe Nationals WA have slammed Labor for putting the lives of city dwellers ahead of those in the bush after confirmation the McGowan Government pulled more than $10 million out of a road safety fund to pay for a new police helicopter. Questions from The Nationals police and road safety spokesperson Martin Aldridge over the…
DetailsThe 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…
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