The McGowan Government’s lack of care and understanding for regional students and their families has again been laid bare after Labor MPs were caught wagging a key conference. The Nationals WA Deputy Leader Jacqui Boydell, along with Member for Moore Shane Love, attended today’s Isolated Children’s Parents Association (ICPA) of WA annual State Conference. Ms…
DetailsMoore MP Shane Love MLA has welcomed news that Western Power will provide Mullewa with a solution to the town’s power issues. Western Power said the high voltage generator to be installed in Mullewa would provide power to the town if there was an outage lasting more than 30 minutes. Mr Love said the news…
DetailsThe Nationals WA Emergency Services Spokesperson Colin de Grussa says it is disappointing that the Minister for Emergency Services has again failed to consult and support volunteer firefighters. The Minister has rejected an offer from WA’s peak body for volunteer firefighters to co-locate at the Bushfire Centre of Excellence to be built in Nambeelup. Mr…
DetailsMember for the Agricultural Region Colin de Grussa has welcomed the decision by Coles and Aldi to axe $1 per litre milk, saying it was “about time”. Both supermarkets will raise the price of milk to $1.10 a litre, matching a commitment made by Woolworths in February. Mr de Grussa said this move by Coles…
DetailsMember for Roe Peter Rundle says the Water Minister’s blatant ignorance of water issues affecting producers and towns in his electorate was verging on dangerous. In Parliament this week Mr Rundle asked the Minister if he could explain why Water Corporation cut off supply to critical standpipes in the Lake Grace and Kulin areas during…
DetailsThe Nationals WA have again called for a Parliamentary inquiry into Labor’s failed Albany wave energy project to ensure the gross waste of taxpayer funds isn’t repeated. Energy spokesperson Terry Redman said an inquiry – which The Nationals first called for in November – was needed to get to the bottom of the McGowan Government’s…
DetailsThe Nationals WA Leader and Member for Central Wheatbelt Mia Davies was in Merredin today to open the third International Women’s Day event at Cummins Theatre. Ms Davies, who joined guest speakers Tanya Dupagne (Camp Kulin), Stacey Dadd (Champagne and Gumboots) and Anita Radcliffe (Westpac), said the event was growing in stature every year. “We’ve…
DetailsMoore MP Shane Love MLA has questioned the veracity of Mark McGowan’s jobs plan, saying there was no detail on how more employment would be created in Moore. Responding to the Premier’s announcement of a promise to create 30,000 new jobs in regional WA over the next five years Mr Love said a sure-fire way…
DetailsThe Nationals WA have called on the State Government to commit to a range of measures to address a rising wave of illegal behaviour by animal activists, including reinstating the Stock Squad. During debate in Parliament yesterday, The Nationals agriculture spokesperson Colin de Grussa called on the McGowan Government to provide greater protections for farmers,…
DetailsThe Nationals WA have again called on the McGowan Government to lift the payroll tax eligibility threshold in light of WA’s worst unemployment figures in almost two decades. In November 2017, the Government pushed legislation through State Parliament which resulted in a payroll tax hike for 1300 WA businesses. It was one of the Premier’s…
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