The Nationals WA fear Karratha will be reduced to a FIFO outpost after Mark McGowan buckled to Woodside’s demands for a new 700-bed camp in the Pilbara town. Leader Mia Davies said the Premier had punched a significant hole in Karratha’s aspirations to be Western Australia’s first true city of the north. “The message the…
DetailsThe McGowan Government continues to raid Royalties for Regions to pay for day-to-day government services. Leader Mia Davies has slammed Treasurer Ben Wyatt for a smoke-and-mirrors Budget which seeks to build a surplus on the back of cost-shifting more than $1 billion of core services into Royalties for Regions over the next four years. Labor…
DetailsThe Labor Government is on notice with The Nationals WA warning any further moves to dismantle regional services and cut funding from the bush will incur an electoral backlash come 2021. Leader Mia Davies said regional communities had endured a difficult 14 months since Labor took power. “Look at what the community has already had…
DetailsConfidential property ownership details and valuable aggregated data could be exposed if the Labor State Government’s plans to privatise the land title registry component of Landgate go ahead. The Nationals WA Leader Mia Davies said Treasurer Ben Wyatt had swept his party’s strong anti-privatisation sentiment under the rug to make way for the sale of…
DetailsThe Nationals WA continue to pile pressure on the McGowan Government over Labor’s proposal to cut funding for Community Resource Centres in half. Leader Mia Davies, along with Warren-Blackwood MP Terry Redman and Roe MP Peter Rundle, today presented the Government with petitions featuring more than 1000 signatures protesting the CRC cuts. It comes after…
DetailsFederal Labor has again hung West Australian farming families out to dry with another proposed ban on the State’s live export industry. The Nationals WA Leader Mia Davies said Western Australia would be disproportionately punished under Labor’s disastrous plan. “WA farmers account for 85 per cent of the nation’s live sheep trade,” Ms Davies said.…
DetailsLocal MP Mia Davies has welcomed the news that State Minister for Agriculture Alannah MacTiernan is considering relocating the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to Northam. “I am delighted Ms MacTiernan said she was discussing a potential move with Director General Ralph Addis and she has my full support if that’s a move…
DetailsThe Nationals WA have welcomed today’s announcement of Federal funding for the Water for Food Myalup-Wellington project, kick-started by Royalties for Regions and The Nationals in Government. Leader Mia Davies said the long-held ambition of reducing salinity levels in Wellington Dam was championed by The Nationals as part of an initiative to expand irrigated agriculture in WA…
DetailsThe Nationals WA joined community members from across the South West today at a rally in Bunbury to express their strong support for camp schools. About 100 people including The Nationals WA Leader Mia Davies, Warren Blackwood MP Terry Redman and local MP Colin Holt gathered outside Labor MP Adele Farina’s Bunbury office. Ms Davies,…
DetailsDisdain for regional Western Australia is not a Labor trait exclusive to the McGowan Government, with Federal Leader Bill Shorten also thumbing his nose at the bush during a visit west this week. Mr Shorten’s six-day trip to WA included just one jaunt outside of Perth – a flying visit to Kalgoorlie where the Opposition…
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