Advocacy secures crucial support for VCE, VET and VCAL students

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Advocacy from Member for Lowan Emma Kealy and her Liberal Nationals colleagues has seen the state government agree to enact special consideration measures for VCE, VET and VCAL students impacted by COVID-19 lockdowns. After strong lobbying and support from students and educators across the Lowan region, the government today announced that the Consideration of Educational…

Kealy calls for special consideration for Year 12 students

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The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy is calling for all 2021 Victorian year 12 students to receive special consideration because of the disruption caused by COVID-19 and remote learning. Ms Kealy has received calls from students and teachers over recent weeks who are feeling increasing levels of anxiety about whether they will have time…

Labor forced to backdown on waterfront camping plan

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The Andrews Labor Government has been forced into an embarrassing backdown on its plan to allow camping on 17,000 kms of licensed river frontages that would have placed unreasonable demands on these precious waterways and our environment, and unfairly exposed farmers. The backdown comes after the Liberal Nationals exposed Labor at a Parliamentary hearing last…

Kealy calls for halt to river front camping ‘free-for-all’

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The Andrews Government has turned it back on farmers again, denying biosecurity threats exist in its plan to open up licensed river frontages to camping in Victoria. During state parliament in May, The Nationals called on the Andrews Government to halt its plan, citing landholders’ concerns about biosecurity, farm trespass, public liability, waste management, bushfire…

Funding for Balmoral RSL upgrade

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The Balmoral RSL Sub-Branch has received $8,646 for electrical and plumbing upgrades under the latest round of the Veterans Capital Works Grant Program. The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy has congratulated the sub-branch for securing the grant to undertake the works — a project she says is long overdue. “I am delighted that the…

Funding cuts and spin is Labor’s approach to rural roads

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Despite rural motorists still driving on roads full of potholes and crumbling surfaces, Roads Minister Ben Carroll was glowing in his self-praise for the work the Andrews Labor Government is apparently doing to fix rural roads in Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearings last week. Despite repeated claims by this inner city-based Minister that Labor…

Kealy congratulates 2021 VicHealth funding grant recipients

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The Nationals Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy has congratulated Wellways Hamilton, Western District Health Service and the Tatyoon Football Netball Club who have all been successful in receiving funding under the second round of the VicHealth Reimagining Health Grants program. Ms Kealy said one of the key focuses of this round of funding was to…

2021 Parliament Prize competition now open

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The Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy is encouraging local students to enter the 2021 Parliament Prize competition. To enter, students need to submit a video of themselves presenting a Members Statement they would make to Parliament if they were a Member of Parliament. A Member’s Statement is an opportunity for MPs to make a…

Office remains closed but Minister says someone is home

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The Nationals Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy advises local residents that while the reception area of the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing in Gray Street, Hamilton remains closed, clients can still contact the office for an appointment. Ms Kealy made the discovery after writing to the Minister for Housing seeking advice on why the…