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Bernard Humphreys

New role for Webster in shadow cabinet

LOCAL federal MP Anne Webster has become the Opposition’s assistant spokesperson for regional health. Dr Webster was previously the assistant spokesperson for regional development. The Nationals MP said she was “thrilled to be offered this opportunity...

13 Jan 2023

Farming and Environment

Pitching permission from farmers

CAMPERS would need permission from lessee farmers to pitch a tent on Crown lands by the Murray, under a Victorian Liberal Party election promise to “give power back to landholders”.And lessees would have the power to revoke permission if there was...

06 Sep 2022

Politics

Labor dodging scrutiny, says Webster

THE new federal Labor government has been accused by Member for Mallee Anne Webster of shirking scrutiny by scheduling a low number of parliamentary sitting days this year. Dr Webster, now on the...

27 Jul 2022

Community

‘Exciting times ahead’ for MDAS

CALM and quietly spoken, Dallas Widdicombe is applying a methodical management approach to restructure at Mallee District Aboriginal Services (MDAS).The Bendigo District Aboriginal Corporation executive has been seconded to MDAS for three months to...

01 Jul 2022

Politics

Webster joins the shadow ministry

FEDERAL MP Anne Webster has been promoted within the Coalition following its election loss and will be shadow assistant minister for regional development. The Mallee MP was one of 10 women named in new Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s 24-member shadow...

07 Jun 2022

Community

New faces at MDAS

NEW leadership appointments have made at Mallee District Aboriginal Services and a temporary executive has been brought in to oversee a management restructure in the sudden absence of chief executive Jacki Turfrey. Bendigo District Aboriginal...

30 May 2022

Politics

Anne Webster says she is keen to step up to front bench

ANNE Webster’s success in holding the seat of Mallee in Saturday’s federal election is tempered by the political reality of the Coalition losing power, but she says she will work with the new Labor government to get the best for...

22 May 2022

Politics

Election preferences ‘tricky’, says Webster

THE saying that “politics makes strange bedfellows” was coined long before Australian...

18 May 2022

News

MDAS chief on sudden leave

THE management of Mallee District Aboriginal Services appears to be in turmoil, its chief executive taking sudden unplanned leave and her acting replacement announcing that she will leave the...

16 May 2022

Politics

One Nation’s Mallee candidate standing, not running

PAULINE Hanson appears to be running a Queensland-based “ghost” candidate in Mallee under her One Nation banner. Vanessa Atkinson has formally nominated to contest Mallee in the federal election, but is not named in the list of...

10 May 2022

News

Legal threat to halt Mungo reburial

THE Federal Government’s “final” decision on the reburial of ancient Aboriginal remains at Mungo has been thrown into doubt by a challenge from sectors of the Indigenous community.

23 Apr 2022

Politics

Cupper backs new independent federal candidate

AN independent federal election candidate hoping to unseat the Nationals’ Anne Webster has the backing of Mildura state MP Ali Cupper and both say they will collaborate on issues affecting the region. Sophie Baldwin, 47, who lives near Cohuna and is...

08 Feb 2022