Opinion

MILDURA has this week faced its greatest challenge since the beginning of the pandemic. With four cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the community…

WHAT a week, hey? Since early Sunday morning, when we all learned of a positive Delta case in Mildura, our days have been filled with…

IT was an honour and a whole lot of fun to visit Murrayville this week to officially celebrate the news of the State Government’s $500,000…

IT would be easy to think we had left our sanity behind in 2019. It is difficult to imagine when Australia, as a whole, has…

THIS week is NAIDOC Week. Every year, NAIDOC Week has a theme and this year’s is Heal Country. It encourages us to consider the impact…

THE inhumanity of state border restrictions continues to be experienced by countless stories of individuals and families who are traumatised by bureaucratic decisions. Children who…

AS the dust settles on last week’s leadership spill, a new Cabinet has been sworn in. It was a crazy week, and I dare say…

THE dust is still settling from recent attempts to rewrite the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP). Just over a week ago, federal National Party senators attempted…

AS COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria are easing, restrictions in Sydney are escalating. It is a perfect illustration of the dynamic nature of the pandemic –…

THIS week The Nationals in Parliament put forward amendments to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in the Senate, then the House of Representatives. My Nationals colleagues…

THIS week in Federal politics, the National Party secured a new seasonal agriculture worker visa. This is something I have been fighting for since being…

OVER the past week, as the COVID-19 risk level in Melbourne has decreased, the South Australian Government’s restrictions on cross-border travel have increased. I’m not…