Have your say on Dairy Code
The draft mandatory code of conduct has been released for public comment, following a series of consultations in all eight dairy regions last year.
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Innovation Fund a boost for regional and small publishers
Local journalism in Murray has been given a boost with the announcement that McPherson Media Group and the Numurkah Leader have been awarded grants in the first round of the Federal Government’s Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund.
The Innovation Fund is part of the Government’s comprehensive Broadcasting and Content Reform package to strengthen regional and small publishers.
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McPherson Newspapers, the Yarrawonga Chronicle and Corowa Free Press have been awarded grants through the Regional and Small Publishers Cadetships Program, to help drive regional journalism in the Murray electorate. The McPherson Newspapers grant of $169,854 will support six cadetships in the business. The Yarrawonga Chronicle and Corowa Free Press have both been awarded $26,071…
DetailsINVESTING IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY SPORTING ORGANISATIONS
The Liberal National Government will invest more than $180,000 in upgrading and improving the sporting facilities for three community organisations to help increase sporting participation and get the local community more active, more often. The investment is part of the Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program that is investing $28 million in 223 projects across Australia…
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Member for Murray Damian Drum has helped deliver a socio-economic test which will protect the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District from further water losses. The test was agreed to by Basin Ministers in Melbourne today, with Mr Drum in attendance at the MINCo meeting. “Today’s announcement has been two years in negotiation and I’m incredibly grateful…
DetailsPeople with disability in Murray can now apply for ABC Regional Storyteller scholarship
As part of International Day of People with Disability celebrations, the Australian Government will provide $60,000 to support an ABC scholarship for disability content makers living in regional Australia. The Hon Damian Drum MP is encouraging people with disability living in or around the Murray electorate to apply. “Living with disability in a regional town…
DetailsMPI: Victoria funding
I agree with the previous speaker from the coalition. He said that it doesn’t really matter how many times the Labor Party want to repeat lies; it doesn’t make them true. They can keep rolling out lie after lie but it doesn’t make them true. They keep talking about cuts to the education system, when…
DetailsWhite Ribbon Day
It is certainly very, very true that all women in this great country of ours have every right to feel safe at all times. Whether walking down the street or in the safety of their own homes, all women should feel 100 per cent safe all the time. The coalition government has long been very…
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Yesterday the Minister for Health announced that the government will expand free access to glucose-monitoring devices for pregnant women, children and more adults with type 1 diabetes, saving people up to $7,000 a year. The investment of an additional $100 million in funding over the next four years will ensure that free glucose-monitoring devices are…
DetailsMinister Wyatt visit to Shepparton
Last Friday I had the opportunity of hosting the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care and the Minster for Indigenous Health, Ken Wyatt. Aged care is particularly important in Murray, given that 21.5 per cent of the population is over the age of 65. As Minister Wyatt is very quick to point out, in…
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