Member for Narracan Gary Blackwood has said today’s announcement of 10 additional off peak services will not address overcrowding on the Gippsland Line. ‘October’s V/Line capacity report showed that again two of our three most important peak services, the 4:16pm and 4:58pm weekday services, operated at or above 100% capacity. ‘Clearly if the Andrews Labor Government was…
A $17 million Hi-Tech Precinct for Morwell was announced by the Victorian Government today. The former Coalition government allocated $20 million for Federation Training, but this funding has not been spent since the Andrews Labor Government was elected. Member for Morwell Russell Northe: Hazelwood workers need real jobs to go to in their field when…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe is calling on the State Government to extend a Traralgon bus route to ensure public transport users can access businesses and homes in the town’s east. With a number of developments in Traralgon East over recent years Mr Northe said the extension of bus route 45 was needed now…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe today joined with Shadow Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises Neale Burgess and local businesses to call on the Labor Government to provide real solutions for the Hazelwood closure. The Government must create real jobs for the workers that will be displaced in March, sooner rather than later. Mr Northe…
Daniel Andrews appeared unaware of his own Government’s plans to relocate Ambulance Victoria’s Regional Headquarters away from Morwell when asked in Parliament this week. Member for Morwell Russell Northe asked the Premier why they were spruiking opportunities to relocate government departments to Morwell, while at the same time making plans to close one down.…
Victorians are encouraged to pay their respects to our past and present servicemen and women on Remembrance Day on Friday. Member for Morwell Russell Northe said November 11 was an important day to pause and remember. “On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we observe one minute of silence,” Mr…
Premier Daniel Andrews has refused to detail how he will create real jobs for Hazelwood workers after two years of rising unemployment in the Latrobe Valley. In Parliament, Member for Morwell Russell Northe asked the Andrews Labor Government how they planned to create new jobs in the Valley before Hazelwood closes in March, when it…
Hazelwood power station workers are not the only Latrobe Valley workers neglected by the Andrews Labor Government, Member for Morwell Russell Northe said. Since December 2014, unemployment has skyrocketed rising 50 per cent in Latrobe City and nearly 10,000 people have lost full-time work in the Latrobe-Gippsland region. Mr Northe said Daniel Andrews had failed…
Background: This month’s ABS regional jobs figures show the unemployment rate in regional Victoria rose by 0.1% taking it to 5.7%. Employment in regional Victoria fell over past three months with full time jobs down 8453. Since Daniel Andrews came to office, the unemployment rate in Latrobe – Gippsland has gone from 6.1% to 8.0%;…
Daniel Andrews is leaving the Latrobe Valley in the dark on what he knows of the possible closure of Hazelwood power station, Member for Morwell Russell Northe said. The closure of Hazelwood would leave hundreds of local people without a job and despite Labor first slating the station’s shutdown in 2010 the Andrews Government does…