MICHAEL McCORMACK URGES EMERGENCY ACTION FROM MINISTER KING AS TRUCKING INDUSTRY FACES CRISIS

Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack says the trucking industry is in freefall and urgent action must be taken to prevent further collapse. Following the closure of long-standing operators including XL Express, DJK Transport, Don Watson Transport, Transtar Linehaul, Regent Logistics and Ron Crouch Transport, Mr McCormack is calling for the Infrastructure and Transport Minister […]
TRANSCRIPT: ABC RADIO RIVERINA WITH MELINDA HAYTER, 11 December 2025

Subjects: Ron Crouch Transport voluntary administration E&OE STARTS: 4.04pm ENDS: 4.15pm MELINDA HAYTER Michael McCormack, I guess, what’s your reaction to the news that Ron Crouch Transport has gone into voluntary administration? MICHAEL McCORMACK I’m sad and disturbed, quite frankly, that this has happened. This company has been going for 47 years, been […]
RON CROUCH TRANSPORT GOES INTO VOLUNTARY ADMINISTRATION

“The news that Ron Crouch Transport has been placed into voluntary administration is terrible for Wagga Wagga, the Riverina and the Australian transport industry. “When a long-standing and highly respected company such as Ron Crouch Transport makes such an announcement, you know things are parlous. “I have given speeches on the floor of […]
Wagga at forefront to ease doctor shortage

Training doctors in the regions from start to finish increases significantly the chances they will remain and practise in country areas once they graduate. This is why the Murray-Darling Medical Schools Network is playing such an important role in helping to ease the chronic shortage of rural doctors. As the years go by, and more […]
LABOR’S PLAN TO LOWER REGIONAL SPEED LIMITS MUST BE SCRAPPED, SAYS McCORMACK

Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack says the Albanese Government should immediately abandon its plan to lower regional speed limits to as low as 70 kilometres per hour. “The people of the Riverina electorate want hot cash for hot asphalt, they do not want to be throttled by this Labor Government that continues to show […]
THE NATIONALS PUT AUSTRALIANS FIRST WITH CHEAPER ELECTRICITY, SECURE JOBS AND LOWER EMISSIONs

Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack says there is a cheaper, better and fairer way for Australia to reduce its emissions after The Nationals’ Partyroom agreed to officially abandon Net Zero. It comes after The Nationals’ Federal Council voted overwhelmingly to drop the 2050 target. Mr McCormack said the current carpet bombing of the Riverina […]
LABOR BACKFLIPS ON SMSF FARM TAX GRAB – FOR NOW

Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack says the Labor Government’s retreat on its terrible plan to tax unrealised gains on farms held in self-managed super funds is a victory for many Riverina families but warns that Labor has a track record of saying one thing and doing another. “I have been campaigning against Labor’s deeply […]
Labor’s time limit on Lest We Forget

No-one could ever say Richard Norden and Teddy Sheean did not deserve Victoria Crosses for Australia. Soldier Norden, known as Dick, dashed into an enemy ambush again and again and again to rescue a mate and recover another’s body, being severely wounded himself in the action, during the Vietnam War. Sailor Sheean ignored orders to […]
WIND TOWER PROPOSAL BLOWS OVER … FOR NOW

Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack has welcomed the indefinite delay to the proposed 90 260-metre tall wind towers between Binalong and Bowning. It has since been revealed Wind Prospect’s United Kingdom arm owes millions of dollars to creditors and has been trading insolvent since 2017. Mr McCormack said the announcement was a win for […]
Australia will grind to a halt if we lose trucks

Without trucks, Australia stops. It is that simple. Trucks, or more specifically, those skilful yet much-maligned drivers behind the wheel of them, deliver just about everything around this wide, brown land. Be it the vast expanses of regional Australia or bustling capital cities, much of what sustains us is brought in on the back of […]