As Victoria scrambles to address skills shortages across sectors as diverse as construction and healthcare, the Allan Labor Government has made another callous cut to crucial training funding. Vital Skills First funding has been slashed from Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) with the axing of the 10 per cent funding premium set aside for students to…
DetailsRegional Victorians are being urged to snap pictures of the worst potholes in the state in a new competition to put more pressure on the Allan Labor Government to take proper action and improve the appalling and unsafe state of regional roads. The Nationals and Liberals are running a statewide photo competition with the worst…
DetailsThe Allan Labor Government has announced forced health service mergers across the state following years of financial mismanagement and neglect of Victoria’s health system. The Nationals Member for Shepparton District, Kim O’Keeffe, said: “12 Local Health Service Networks will come into operation on July 1 this year, yet there is no detail on how these networks…
DetailsAs Greater Shepparton continues to grow, bus routes and services are no longer meeting demand, with The Nationals Member for Shepparton District, Kim O’Keeffe, sponsoring a petition for a bus service review of the region. The last review was completed more than 15 years ago, well before extensive residential developments occurred across Kialla, Congupna and…
DetailsThe walls of Kim O’Keeffe’s office are covered with over 700 entrants of her Christmas Card competition. The Nationals’ Member for Shepparton District, Kim O’Keeffe said that she was so delighted to receive many entrants from incredibly talented students from across the electorate, all of which have brought so much Christmas joy to her office.…
DetailsThe Nationals’ Member for Shepparton District, Kim O’Keeffe, has condemned the Allan Labor Government’s decision to increase the fire services levy with its re-branded Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund. The proposed changes to the fire services levy are set to double the amount that Victorian property owners pay each year. Ms O’Keeffe said regional Victorians…
DetailsVictorians are struggling to pay Labor’s highest-in-the-nation property taxes on time, as new figures confirm that more than one-in-three unpaid land tax bills are more than 12 months overdue. The Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) 2023-24 annual report confirms 33.45 per cent of overdue debt – that is, unpaid tax bills are more than…
DetailsNew data from the State Government has revealed the Allan Labor Government’s neglect for rural and regional roads across the state, with the area of road maintenance undertaken falling by 95 per cent. Data published in the Department of Transport and Planning annual report shows the area of road “rehabilitated or resurfaced” in regional Victoria…
DetailsDear Editor, Monday saw a number of wonderful local events take place right across the Shepparton District to commemorate Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day, observed on the 11th of November each year right around Australia, provides not only an opportunity to mark the end of World War I, but to honour those who have served and…
DetailsLocal residents of Harmony Retirement Village have been forced to walk up to a kilometre to catch a bus, after the Zurcas Lane, Shepparton bus stop was closed without warning in May last year. The Nationals’ Member for Shepparton District, Kim O’Keeffe, wrote to the Minister for Public and Active Transport, Gabrielle Williams back in…
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