Adjournment – By Five
My adjournment matter is for the Premier, and the action I seek is for the Premier and the Labor government to immediately secure funding for the By Five Wimmera Southern…
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Member’s statement – Drought and bushfire assistance
Our farmers are on their knees – no rain, no food, no water, dwindling cash reserves and increasing debt to the banks – and the support they get from the…
Community unites to protest Labor’s obscene new tax
The Nationals and Liberals will scrap the Allan Labor Government’s cruel Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund that seeks to rip $765 million a year from hard-working Victorians. The parties made…
State Budget full of taxes and empty promises
This week’s State Budget has confirmed regional Victorians will continue to face more pain under Labor, with the government slashing spending to roads and agriculture while increasing taxes. Member for…
Labor fails to support vulnerable children
Labor’s state budget has dealt a cruel blow to Wimmera and Mallee communities, failing to confirm crucial ongoing funding for the By Five Early Years Initiative. By Five works with…
Constituency Question – Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund
Emma KEALY (Lowan) (12:50): (1134) My question is to the Premier. Will the Premier commit to scrapping the tax and making the commitment made on the steps of Parliament today…
Labor’s drought package a complete let-down
Letter to the editor The Allan Labor Government’s abysmal drought package has let Victorian farmers down. Farmers battling worsening conditions have called for fodder, water carting support and agistment assistance…
Debate on council amendments – Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Bill 2025
I tell you what this emergency services tax bill is; it is about filling a big budget black hole. It is about the Allan Labor government failing to manage money,…
Questions Without Notice – drought relief
Emma KEALY (Lowan) (14:10): My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. South Australia has announced a $73 million drought support package, yet Victorian farmers neighbouring South Australia in the…
Member’s statement – Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund
Emma KEALY (Lowan) (13:16): I rise today to urge the Allan Labor government to urgently reconsider its desperately unfair emergency services and volunteers tax and immediately scrap the tax. We…
Parliament Prize open to local students
Students across Victoria have an opportunity to share their views on their issues affecting their communities as part of an annual Parliament of Victoria competition. The Parliament Prize, which opened…
Labor must listen and scrap new emergency services levy
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…
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