TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH GEOFF FROST, YASS FM, 31 JANUARY 2025

Subjects: Australia Day, Aged Care, recent storms and disaster assistance, Yass visit, Parliament resuming for the year, election date, small business policy, road death toll, Sheik Abdulghani Albaf, anti-Semitism, Paris Agreement E&OE STARTS 8.05AM GEOFF FROST We’re going to go straight to Michael McCormack, who has rung in early, up and about early, Michael? MICHAEL […]
Transcript: WAGGA WAGGA CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY AT RIVERSIDE PRECINCT, 26 JANUARY 2025

E&OE STARTS: 9:17AM ENDS: 9:22AM MICHAEL McCORMACK: Well, thank you, Mr Mayor (Dallas Tout), and certainly happy Australia Day one and all. It’s great to see so many people. The car park is absolutely chockers! So I will first read the letter from the Honourable Tony Burke, who amongst other things is the Minister for […]
Transcript: Australia Day 2025 Citizen of the Year Ceremony the Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, 25 January 2025

E&OE STARTS: 6.30pm ENDS: 6.37pm MICHAEL McCORMACK MP: Thank you very much, Velika (Hayes) – and to Edison (McIntosh), Joz (Pastor) and Tille (Carroll) what a wonderful and magnificent job you just did in front of the fantastic 1RTB Kapooka Army Band. You have really started the proceedings off brilliantly. To the Australia Day Committee, […]
COALITION TO CUT RED TAPE TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE RIVERINA ELECTORATE

Small businesses across the Riverina, Central West, Snowy Mountains, South West Slopes and Southern Tablelands are set to benefit from a new Coalition policy that will cut red tape. A future Liberal-Nationals Government will introduce a capped tax deduction of $20,000 for business-related meal and entertainment expenses – excluding alcohol – for small businesses with […]
STORM ASSISTANCE

Snowy Valleys, Maitland and Port Stephens Local Government Areas have been allocated joint Federal-State Government assistance for storm damage.
STATEMENT ON GAZA CEASEFIRE

The announcement of a ceasefire and hostage agreement in Gaza, marks an important step toward ending a devastating conflict that has gone on for too long.
McCORMACK CONDEMNS SHEIKH’S ANTI-SEMITIC COMMENTS

Member for Riverina Michael McCormack has condemned the violent anti-Semitic rhetoric of the recently-appointed principal of New Madinah College at Young, who in a social media post exhorted for Zionists to “burn in the lowest pits of hellfire”.
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH SAM COSTIN, 7NEWS RIVERINA, 14 JANUARY 2025

Subjects: Sheik Abulghani Albaf, electorate boundary changes, election, Australia Day E&OE SAM COSTIN: Your name and role, please. MICHAEL McCORMACK: Michael McCormack, Federal Member for Riverina, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific. SAM COSTIN: Excellent. All right, Michael. So, we do have some concerning information coming out of Young. What are you aware […]
McCormack WELCOMES FUNDING FOR URALBA HOSTEL

Aged care residents of Uralba Hostel, in Gundagai, are set to benefit from $1,933,387 in funding from the Aged Care Capital Assistance Program to support the facility’s refurbishment.
CLEANBILL REPORT REVEALS CONTINUING DECLINE IN BULK BILLING RATES UNDER LABOR

Today’s release of Cleanbill’s 2025 Blue Report shows bulk billing rates continue to decline at an alarming rate, while average out-of-pocket costs for GP consultations across Australia are soaring.