Emma Kealy

Labor must listen and scrap new emergency services levy

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Victorians will this week learn whether they will be slapped with yet another new tax from the callous Allan Labor Government, as Parliament’s upper house again votes on the introduction of the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund. A bill to introduce the new $1.2-billion tax – of which $205 million will come from farmers –…

Letter to the editor

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Farmers across Victoria, particularly in the south-west, are facing the worst drought in decades. Dams are drying out, and a lack of rain over across the Easter break means even if it does rain now, it’s unlikely any feed will grow over winter due to the cold temperatures. There is very little fodder available in…