Labor’s eleventh-hour review of the Western Renewables Link exposes the uncertainty surrounding its transmission agenda and strengthens the case to scrap VNI West altogether. The Nationals Deputy Leader and Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, said Labor MPs should not be claiming victory after years of ignoring farmers and regional communities fighting Labor’s divisive transmission plan.…
The Nationals are ready to get on with the job of strong and stable government, with a positive plan to rebuild regional Victoria. The Nationals will fix our roads, investing $5 billion to repair and rebuild our state road network, plus $288 million for local country roads and bridges. The Nationals will tackle crime, with 3000 additional police,…
The Nationals will cancel the Carroll Labor Government’s VNI West transmission project, delivering certainty to regional farmers and communities who have spent years fighting to protect their land. VNI West does not stack up, has no social licence in the communities it impacts, and will be cancelled. The Nationals remain committed to reviewing the entire…
Victoria’s New Minister for Energy and Resources Jaclyn Symes needs to address the proposed application for the Avonbank mineral sands mine as a matter of top priority. Shadow Minister for Agriculture and the Nationals Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, said the application carried serious concerns over water security, the integrity of the Environmental Effects Statement,…
My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Energy and Resources, and the action I seek is for the minister to join me to meet with communities who are very concerned about the impact of the south-west renewable energy zone and the western renewable energy zone. These are communities that in many instances you could…
The Nationals in government will halt the unpopular VNI West project and bring back community consultation to Victoria’s energy debate. Nationals Member for Lowan and Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Emma Kealy, said landholders across the state had seen their property rights taken away as the Allan Labor Government aggressively pursued its ideology-driven energy policy over…
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. A survey by Ausveg found that 28 per cent of vegetable producers have halted or reduced planting due to fuel and fertiliser supply issues. Will the minister guarantee farmers will have access to fuel for the full season, from planting or sowing right through to harvest, to…
Across regional Victoria, families, businesses and farmers are being pushed to the brink. They work hard, they pay their taxes and they keep the state running, yet they are the first to be hit and the last to be helped by a city-centric Labor government. Fuel shortages are no longer a risk, they are a…
My adjournment matter is to the Premier, and the action I seek is for the Premier to urgently work with the federal government to release fuel held under the minimum stockholding obligation into the spot market, with a priority on supporting independent distributors in regional Victoria. This afternoon most of my National Party colleagues have…
The Allan Labor Government has shown contempt for regional Victorians, the environment, and our vital agricultural sector, by bulldozing through new compulsory acquisition laws for power line easements. These powers allow the government, transmission firms, and energy distributors to seize farmland for power line easements that ‘may’ be required in the future, without the need…
