Member for Mildura, Jade Benham says, the decision by the Minister for Education, to reverse the Government’s cuts to teaching services for students with a disability is a ‘no brainer’. It follows fierce opposition by a range of key education stakeholders including schools, parents and other advocacy groups. “These cuts should have never been put…
Nationals Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, has warned the Minister for Agriculture and the Department to have a plan to deploy resources and prevent a Varroa Mite outbreak in Victoria. “Australia has had twelve months notice of this pest being a potential threat to our agricultural industry and with the Mite detected in Sunraysia the…
One-person police stations across Victoria are under threat, with a new proposal seeing one-person police stations being phased out much to the detriment of smaller regional towns. Nationals Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, said that this would take yet another essential service away from small country towns. “These small country towns often are too far…
Life under Labor is getting increasingly tougher for Victorian families and businesses as WorkCover premiums continue to soar. The significant spikes in WorkCover charges come at a time when Victorian businesses can least afford them, with the price of goods and services increasing, rents and mortgages soaring and workforce shortages biting. As fees and charges…
Nationals’ Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, is concerned no commitment to the Victorian road resurfacing program this financial year is another indictment on the Andrews Government’s continuing financial mismanagement. “We no longer drive on the left side of the road, we drive on what’s left of them.” Victorians are well aware that our roads continue…
Nationals’ Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, is encouraging all Football and Netball clubs to apply to for the 2023-24 Country Football and Netball Program grants. Grants of up to $250,000 are available to make more sport infrastructure developments possible including court and oval lighting upgrades, changeroom developments and new pavilions for local clubs and communities.…
Nationals’ Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, this week visited Birchip Cropping Group along with the Board of the Grains Research and Development Corporation ahead of their Field Days on September 13. “I have been involved with Birchip Cropping Group in some way shape or form since the late 1990s and have seen this incredible evolution…
Nationals’ Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, is launching a survey to gain a better understanding of how the cost-of-living crisis is biting regional Victorian household and business budgets. The “Cost of Living Survey” is a series of short questions to help The Nationals learn more about the plight of hardworking regional Victorians to help us…
Nationals’ Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, encourages providers to submit their tenders to operate the much-awaited Alcohol and Other Drugs facility. “Although locals will be forced to wait for the opening of the promised Alcohol and Other Drugs Residential Rehabilitation Facility after the Government pushed the project back for completion in 2026 in the last…
The Nationals’ Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, is calling on the Minister for Youth Justice to visit Mildura to discuss a collaborative approach to tackling the youth crime issue. Recent data shows youth crime has risen by an alarming 12 per cent in the electorate, impacting on all retailers in the Mildura City Heart and…
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