In last year’s state budget the Andrews Labor Government tripled the coal royalty rate in Victoria costing Latrobe Valley generators an extra $252 million. Daniel Andrews effectively closed Hazelwood power station by trebling this tax that forced up the cost of doing business in Victoria and ripped jobs from our community. Daniel Andrews…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe today tabled another 411 petitions calling on the Andrews Government to provide funding for the construction of the Gippsland Regional Aquatic Centre in Traralgon. The community has previously demonstrated its support for the GRAC with 3,575 people having signed petitions to shows their support for the development of a Traralgon…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe is continuing the fight in Parliament this week calling on the Government to retain jobs for Hazelwood workers and contractors. Mr Northe said as the Andrews Government lurched from one crisis to another, it was clear it Daniel Andrews was completely distracted securing the future of his own job and…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe says the Andrews Labor Government is forcing through legislation to introduce a $2 levy on country taxi passengers to pay for their botched scheme to regulate Melbourne Uber and remove taxi licences. The Labor Government has proposed – “All commercial passenger vehicle providers charge a levy equivalent to $2 per…
A media blitz by the Andrews Government in the final days before Hazelwood’s closure will not create real jobs for the power station’s highly-skilled workforce. Worker transition should have been the first priority of the Andrews Government, but instead Daniel Andrews abandoned workers and dithered nearly four months as Hazelwood’s closure looms. In a months’…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe has said the Andrews Labor Government’s failure to renegotiate the renewal of leases of land for Hancock Victoria Plantations’ (HVP) leaves the future of the timber industry in the Latrobe Valley in question. Mr Northe said he understood that HVP has been seeking to finalise lease negotiations with the State Government for…
Daniel Andrews’ decision to appoint a key adviser behind the plan to close Hazelwood to manage the Latrobe Valley’s transition shows his utter contempt for the people of the Valley, Member for Morwell Russell Northe has said. The former adviser for climate change, environment and innovation worked in Premier Brumby’s private office when Labor promised…
The announcement yesterday by the Federal Government to provide funding towards the Morwell-Traralgon shared pathway project, and an upgrade to Morwell Recreation Reserve will be welcomed by our local community after years of advocacy. The Morwell-Traralgon shared pathway is something I have long supported. In 2010 the Liberal-National Coalition made a commitment to provide funding…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe joined with Latrobe Special Developmental School (Latrobe SDS) Council President, Sam Varsaci and parents to call on the Andrews Labor Government to provide funding for a new school. Mr Northe visited the school today as part of his mission to gain government funding to support Latrobe SDS acquire a…
Member for Morwell Russell Northe has encouraged educators and parents of school children to take an active role in the current review of regulations in the Education and Training Reform Act 2007. Mr Northe said he was very concerned that the Andrews Labor Government had released the paper for comment a few days before Christmas…