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TRANSCRIPT: WIN NEWS WITH GEORGIE BURGESS, 26 March 2024

Subjects: Federal Budget 2025/26 E&OE  STARTS: 9:23am GEORGIE BURGESS What’s in the Budget for your region? MICHAEL McCORMACK It’s an attack on regional Australia. This Budget does nothing to help regional Australia in so far as the infrastructure on which we’ve relied those grant programs, which would mean so much for so many councils and […]

TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH 7News Riverina Budget preview, 25 MARCH 2025

E&OE STARTS: 1.03pm ENDS: 1.13pm  EMILY FRANCIS: So, Budget Eve—come a little bit more than 24 hours—what are you hoping to see out of the budget for the regions, particularly the Riverina? MICHAEL McCORMACK: Well, certainly, I do hope that Labor commits to its $30 million for planning for a potential bypass for the Inland […]

TRANSCRIPT: WIN NEWS ACT WITH GEORGIE BURGESS, 21 March 2025

E&OE  STARTS: 10:55am GEORGIE BURGESS Michael obviously (inaudible) in your neck of the woods, how are you feel about the change of boundaries? MICHAEL McCORMACK Oh, really welcome Yass Valley, Snowy Valleys and Upper Lachlan and the eastern end of Hilltops Council into the electorate. They like the rest of the Riverina, the old boundaries […]

TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH DAVID EISENHAUER, SOUNDS OF THE MOUNTAINS 20 MARCH, 2025

E&OE STARTS: 8.38am ENDS: 8.50am MICHAEL McCORMACK: And good morning to you too, David, and certainly, well, they’re not cowboys, but Pat Leary and his Light Horse Troopers are riding throughout the district at the moment on the Cheval Anniversary Light Horse Memorial Ride, and it’s certainly a great thing. They arrived at Junee just […]

TRANSCRIPT: Prime 7 Interview with Emily Francis, 14 March 2025

Subjects: Barbara Parnell E&OE  STARTS: 10:13am EMILY FRANCIS So, yes, a bit of a statement about Barbara Parnell. MICHAEL McCORMACK Well today, we say farewell to the matriarch of the National Party locally, but a very, very fine woman. Born in 1926, not far from here is Dr Jago’s Pete Street Private Hospital, to be […]

STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF MRS BARBARA JEAN PARNELL

VALE, BARBARA PARNELL (21 October 1926-2 March 2025) Barbara Parnell, thought to be the longest serving member of the New South Wales Nationals, has passed away in Wagga Wagga in her 99th year. “She truly was a stalwart of the party and a fine lady in every respect,” said Federal Member for Riverina, Michael McCormack. […]

WAGGA WAGGA’S OASIS REGIONAL AQUATIC CENTRE RECEIVES $2.5 MILLION TOWARDS UPGRADE

Member for Riverina Michael McCormack says a $2.5 million funding boost for Wagga Wagga’s Oasis Regional Aquatic Centre will improve energy efficiency at the popular recreational facility. The funding, through the Federal Government’s Community Energy Upgrades Fund (CEUF), will be used to improve pool heating at the premises. Mr McCormack said the money would go […]

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