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PORT POTENTIAL FOCUS OF NATS’ TOUR

Jobs and opportunities thanks to Port Macquarie’s growing small business sector was the focal point of a tour by Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack with Port Macquarie Nationals’ MP Leslie Williams and Cowper Nationals’ candidate Pat Conaghan today.

NEW KILCOY CREEK BRIDGE WON’T BE SO CREEKY

An 85-year-old timber bridge carrying the D’Aguilar Highway over Kilcoy Creek will be replaced later this year with a new 15-metre-long, two-lane concrete bridge. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Michael McCormack said the Australian and Queensland governments were jointly funding the $5.88 million project under the Australian Government’s Heavy […]

WORK STARTS ON BRUCE HIGHWAY UPGRADE AT CHATSWORTH

The New Year brings more safety upgrades on the Bruce Highway, with roadworks now under way on a 4.7-kilometre stretch of highway at Chatsworth, north of Gympie. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Michael McCormack said the $17.75 million project would improve safety and traffic conditions, creating a free-flowing corridor […]

INFRASTRUCTURE AUSTRALIA APPOINTS NEW CEO

The Australian Government has welcomed Infrastructure Australia’s (IA) announcement of Romilly Madew as its new Chief Executive Officer, to continue important independent work analysing and assessing infrastructure projects to provide strategic advice and guidance, to State and Federal decision-makers. Ms Madew is the current CEO of the Green Building Council and a former winner of […]

TRANSCRIPT – Interview with Weekend Today, Parkes Elvis Festival

E&OE JOURNALIST: In Parkes the Elvis Festival has kicked off and this morning we’re joined by a very different looking Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, and his wife Catherine. We’re not laughing at you, we’re laughing with you. Both of you are clearly Elvis fans. This isn’t the first time you have attended the festival. […]

VALE PAUL NEVILLE

Australian politics is poorer with the passing overnight of one of The Nationals’ finest, Paul Neville. The former long-serving Member for Hinkler in Queensland was ill for several months and passed away earlier today, aged 78. Paul is survived by wife Margaret and their five children, Gavin and Gaye (twins), Sally, Peter and Paul (twins). […]

McCORMACK BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES IN RIVERINA AND CENTRAL WEST

A GUNDAGAI aged care hostel will have improved storage facilities and a Wagga Wagga child care centre will have a new roof over the heads of children thanks to grants delivered by The Nationals’ Riverina MP and Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, through the Stronger Communities Programme. 

NEW STUDY TO BOOST FREIGHT SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCIES

iMOVE Australia is leading a new study which will be used to help drive efficiency improvements and cost reductions in the national freight and logistics supply chain. The Federal Liberal and Nationals’ Government appointed iMOVE Australia to conduct the analysis which will identify the data needed to improve operations, planning and investment decisions in the […]

MEDICAL SCHOOLS NETWORK BOOSTS RIVERINA HEALTH

A $17 million investment from the Liberal and Nationals’ Government will transform the way country-raised medical students are trained and retained to boost the Riverina’s health system. The funding injection into the University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW) will see a new Rural Medical School Program developed in Wagga Wagga, as part of a […]

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