Students from Winters Flat Primary School have had their campaign against plastic fruit stickers raised in State Parliament. The students contacted The Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad who has formally asked the Minister for the Environment to step in to resolve the issue. “I was contacted by Aurora and Georgie, who are in…
This week’s flood inquiry hearings have revealed the heavy bureaucratic burden placed on regional councils The Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad said today. “Recovery is being delayed by Government red tape. Local councils are being asked to jump through complicated bureaucratic hoops, instead of getting on with the job of repairing vast damage…
Bendigo residents are still reeling from a recent alleged family violence incident which sparked an outpouring of grief and anger in the city, The Nationals MP Gaelle Broad told Parliament this week. Speaking on new legislation which will make non-fatal strangulation a stand-alone offence, Ms Broad said the issues were very raw and painful for…
The State Government plans to do nothing about the destructive bat colony in Bendigo’s Rosalind Park, The Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad said today. The Minister advised that approximately 38,000 grey-headed flying foxes were in Rosalind Park this year, but the State Government is ignoring calls to relocate them. “The Labor State Government…
The Minister for Health, Mary-Anne Thomas, must urgently step up to find a solution to the unfolding crisis at Bendigo Health. In an alarming internal hospital survey, more than half of Bendigo clinicians feel burnt out and within two years could leave for jobs in metropolitan areas. Bendigo Health is under-resourced, with shortfalls in the…
The Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Region Gaelle Broad has called for increased funding for financial services amid soaring demand from the community. Ms Broad said a statewide increase of 47 per cent in calls to the debt helpline in the first half of the year highlighted the devastating impact of the cost of living…
Two months into being Premier, Jacinta Allan has finally shifted her focus from Melbourne to host a press conference in Bendigo today. The Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad said: “This Government has prioritised big projects in Melbourne and failed to address the priority issues confronting rural and regional Victorians, particularly in housing and…
The State Government’s new public drunkenness laws will adversely impact police officers in rural and regional areas, the Nationals Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad has told Parliament. Ms Broad said police had raised grave concerns about recent changes to the laws. “As it stands, in rural and regional areas, police have no powers to…
In 2015 the Labor State Government promised to fix the mobile black spots on V/Line Trains. Nationals Member for Northern Victoria, Gaelle Broad raised the issue in Parliament, because eight years later, commuters are still waiting. “If you’ve travelled between Bendigo and Melbourne by train, you will know the connection regularly drops out. In 2014…
Dear Editor, The Labor Government’s neglect of Victoria Police is putting the safety of Northern Victorian communities at risk, with rising crime rates and declining police numbers. Local stations in Castlemaine, Maryborough and Kyneton are being forced to reduce their opening hours, and single officer police stations located in rural communities are at risk. There…