Locals across the Wimmera and south-west Victoria will finally see much-needed road repairs under a Nationals and Liberals government, with an announcement this week to fix our roads and make them safe. The Nationals’ plan for better, safer roads includes a 25 per cent increase in maintenance funding and road repairs, bringing back engineers to…
Hamilton and Western District locals will receive better care, closer to home, under a new commitment by the Liberals and Nationals to build a new emergency department and refurbished intensive care unit at Hamilton Base Hospital. A Victorian Liberal and Nationals government would commit $45 million to the works at Hamilton Base Hospital, delivering the…
Victorians deserve to feel safe – at work, in the community, and in their homes. But under Labor, this is sadly becoming increasingly uncommon. New crime statistics show crime has increased 23 per cent across Victoria since Jacinta Allan became Premier almost three years ago. In Northern Grampians and Ararat local government areas alone, retail…
The Nationals Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, has demanded the Allan Labor Government produce a clear and public funding commitment for the long-awaited Hamilton Base Hospital redevelopment. Since 2022, Western District Health Service has been seeking funding to upgrade the hospital’s emergency department and intensive care unit, which former chief executive Rohan Fitzgerald said failed…
A Liberal and Nationals government will commit to get mental health reforms back on track and address the growing Victorian mental health crisis. The latest Kids Helpline Impact Report revealed the mental health service responded to 128,998 contacts in 2025 at an average of 353 per day. Alarmingly, counsellors were required to undertake 5,190 crisis…
The Nationals’ Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, is calling on residents across the Wimmera and south-west Victoria to flood the RACV with feedback on the area’s worst roads. The RACV has launched its annual My Country Road survey to ask Victorians for their thoughts on the most dangerous country highways identified by RACV, or to nominate a regional road they believe…
The Nationals’ Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, has worked alongside local committees and volunteers to secure more than $720,000 in state government funding for 21 projects across the Lowan electorate in western Victoria. Communities including Apsley, Mortlake, Pimpinio, Quantong, Edenhope, Casterton, Minyip, Dergholm, Penshurst and Warracknabeal were successful in the third round of Tiny Towns…
Victorian farmers are being hit from all sides, yet a simple, practical issue like weed control continues to be ignored by the Allan Labor Government. The Nationals Member for Lowan and Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Emma Kealy, said invasive weeds such as gorse were spreading unchecked across regional Victoria, placing further pressure on landholders already…
The Allan Labor Government’s latest changes to Victoria’s Renewable Energy Zones are proof that regional communities were right to raise concerns from the outset. In less than two years, Labor has released, revised and redrawn multiple versions of its Renewable Energy Zone map, which details the areas where it plans to concentrate the state’s wind,…
After years of advocacy from local farmers, the agriculture sector and The Nationals’ Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, the Allan Labor Government has finally admitted it needs to do more to address concerns about mineral sands mining in the Wimmera Mallee region. The government has announced a Mineral Sands Agricultural Land Restoration Working Group, which…
