TRANSCRIPT: 2GB WITH MICHAEL MCLAREN RE INFORMAL VOTING 7 MAY 2025
Subjects: Informal votes E&OE STARTS 2.41pm ENDS 2.49pm MICHAEL MCLAREN So, what are the factors underpinning this? Is it a lack of education? Lack of understanding of basic civics? Can’t people put one to seven in sequential order? Or are people deliberately spoiling the ballot because they say pox on all your houses? I guess we’ll never really know. It’s going to be a mix of all of the above and then some additional. But I thought we’d have a […]
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW SKY NEWS NATIONAL WITH PETER STEFANOVIC 7 MAY 25
E&OE STARTS 7.45AM ENDS 7.53AM PETER STEFANOVIC The Coalition split on nuclear after losing the election, yeah, there is a divide running through the Coalition over the future of that policy. You’re watching First Edition, folks. Well, the Coalition is facing a test this morning as divisions emerge over the future of its nuclear policy. We discussed this with Matt Canavan on the program earlier […]
TRANSCRIPT: RADIO INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM GLEESON AT ROCCY FM/2LF AM 7 MAY 2025
Subjects: Invalid/donkey votes, election results E&OE STARTS: 12:34PM ENDS: 12:44PM WILLIAM GLEESON OK, we’re recording can get your full name and title please. MICHAEL McCORMACK Michael McCormack, re-elected Member for Riverina. WILLIAM GLEESON And you’re ok for this audio recording should be used on Roccy FM and to 2LF AM. MICHAEL McCORMACK Absolutely. WILLIAM GLEESON Fantastic. Thank you. OK, you have some […]
TRANSCRIPT: POST-ELECTION PRESS CONFERENCE, 5 MAY 2025
MICHAEL McCORMACK: Well, I’d like to say that it was a very pleasing result on Saturday and certainly want to thank the voters, my family, my staff and the hardworking volunteers who stood out on pre-poll for two weeks on the hard cement, in the heat, in the cold, and handed out because they believed […]
TRANSCRIPT: PRESS CONFERENCE AT SOUTH WAGGA WAGGA PUBLIC SCHOOL, 3 MAY 2025
Subjects: Federal Election E&OE STARTS 11.12AM MICHAEL McCORMACK Well, great to be joined by my three-week old granddaughter, Adeline Bell, with her mother, Georgina, and her father Daniel today, and my wife, Catherine. Fantastic that democracy is playing its part and already this morning I’ve been to Gundagai High School and Gundagai South (Public School), […]
WAGGA WAGGA COMMUNITY SAFETY SET TO BENEFIT FROM COALITION GOVERNMENT
An elected Coalition Government, with a Nationals’ Member for Riverina, will support both the Wagga Women’s Health Centre and the Wagga Wagga Rail Heritage Association with security upgrades as part of a revitalised Safer Communities Fund (SCF). “Wagga Women’s Health Centre is set to receive $35,000 and the Wagga Wagga Rail Heritage Association will receive […]
The Hon. Michael McCormack statement on the death of Pope Francis (1936-2025)
Pope Francis will be farewelled the way he lived his life … humbly, serenely and simply. To visit the late Pontiff, 266th Head of the Roman Catholic Church, lying in state in Saint Peter’s Basilica, was to see a man, an inspirational world leader, whose earthly work had been done. He looked very much at […]
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH GEORGIA ROBINSON, WIN NEWS RIVERINA, 24 APRIL 2025
SUBJECTS: Pope’s Funeral. STARTS: 11.35am ENDS: 11:41AM GEORGIA ROBINSON: How are you feeling about going to Rome for the Pope’s Funeral? MICHAEL McCORMACK: It is an incredible honour, a rare privilege. Of course, it will be a time of sadness. Catholics around the world indeed Catholics in Australia, the thousands of Catholics across the Riverina […]
RIVERINA VETERANS SET TO BENEFIT FROM COALITION COMMITMENT
An elected Coalition Government will deliver $250,000 in Federal investment for the Pro Patria Centre, supporting Veterans across the Riverina. “Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Barnaby Joyce and I are so pleased to announce the Pro Patria Centre is set to receive $250,000 if the Coalition is elected to Government with a Nationals’ Member […]
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW ON PASSING OF HEAD OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH EMILY FRANCIS, SAINT MICHAEL’S CATHEDRAL, WAGGA WAGGA, 22 APRIL 2025
E&OE SUBJECTS: PASSING OF THE POPE Saint Michael’s Cathedral, Wagga Wagga STARTS: 12:31PM ENDS: 12:35PM EMILY FRANCIS: Big day, a sombre day for the Catholic community. MICHAEL McCORMACK: It is a sad day today; it is a day of reflection and the thousands of Catholics across the Riverina will be thinking about the Pontiff today. […]