Eraring, Australia’s biggest power station, provides baseload power. A gas peaker can’t fill that gap and pretending it can is a recipe for blackouts and higher bills. Australians deserve better.
For 3½ years, Energy Minister Chris Bowen has claimed his ideologically-driven renewables-only approach would lower prices and improve reliability. But experts keep proving him wrong. It’s time for honesty — […]
Australians were promised cheaper power bills — a $275 cut by Christmas, repeated 97 times by the Prime Minister and his Energy Minister. Instead, families are facing the opposite reality. […]
The Minister for Infrastructure was in the chamber today so I let her know I was glad she had dropped the harebrained idea to lower speed limits on rural roads. […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been travelling across Wannon, holding listening posts to hear directly from local communities. Everywhere I go, people are telling me the same thing, they’re […]
The community of Warrnambool and Port Fairy has made its position clear, we do not want an offshore wind farm placed right next to a whale breeding zone. This area […]
It was a privilege to join our community in Allansford for the dedication of the Early Pregnancy Loss Memorial at Tooram Memorial Park. This thoughtful initiative, led by the Warrnambool […]
Regional Victorians are fed up and rightly so. Potholes are popping up everywhere, making our roads dangerous and damaging vehicles. Instead of fixing them, the Albanese Labor Government’s solution is […]
The Coalition Government secured $5 million to upgrade the Streatham-Eurambeen Glenelg Highway intersection, one of our region’s most dangerous. After long delays, work is finally underway thanks to this investment. […]
The Beaufort community’s request is perfectly reasonable. They want a safe, accessible railway station that meets their needs. I stood up in Parliament to support their petition, but sadly, Labor […]
An ABC Freedom of Information request has exposed the truth. 1,709 Victorians have lodged claims after hitting potholes and sustaining damage to their vehicles but the Victorian State Labor Government […]
The Prime Minister went to the Bush Summit in Ballarat without taking on board the talking points I gave him in Parliament the week before. As a result, he was […]
The Prime Minister attended the Bush Summit in Ballarat on Friday. Many of my constituents made the trip to see him there so I took the opportunity to give him […]
This week, I received a powerful message from Aden Gilding, a concerned resident of South West Victoria. His email paints a stark picture of the worsening drought gripping our region […]
In this speech to Parliament, I raised a critical issue directly with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Infrastructure — the poor quality of the $60 million upgrade to […]
In Parliament this week, I reaffirmed my commitment to ensuring our rural and regional communities are not forgotten by the Albanese and Allan Labor Governments. Being in government is a […]
Another day, another letter to Premier Allan. The Princes Highway needs fixing—properly. Keep sharing photos of potholes with the hashtag #FixVicRoads and let’s get the message through.
18 June 2025 E&OE………………………………………………………………………………………………… Dan Tehan: It wasn't the best run campaign that we've seen. As a matter of fact, a lot of people have said it's one of the […]
If you're going to do a job, do it properly. The Victorian State Government was given $60 million to fix the Princes Highway West between Warrnambool and Port Fairy — […]
The Premier has announced that farmers in drought-declared areas will be exempt from the Fire Services Levy. While this sounds promising, the details remain unclear. Who exactly qualifies as drought-declared? […]
