Dear Editor,
2012 has just started and already the Labor government’s agenda will impact regional communities.
The government’s flagged its intention to again try to means-test the private health insurance rebate, putting more pressure on the already stretched public health system in reg... ...more
The Labor government would be wise to listen to rural doctors on how to address the GP shortage rather than forging ahead with ill informed and ineffective policies, Nationals Senator Fiona Nash said.
Senator Nash, who’s been in regular contact with the Rural Doctors’ Association of Aust... ...more
Regional Australians are bracing themselves for another year of Labor’s contempt, Nationals Senator Fiona Nash, said.
2011 saw the carbon tax proposed, the draft Murray Darling Basin (MDB) plan to cut water, regional students struggling to afford tertiary education because of unfair independent you... ...more
Dear Editor,
This year more regional students should qualify for independent youth allowance.
This could only have happened through the persistent lobbying and determination by students, their parents, education stakeholders and the Coalition for the abolition of the unfair 30 hour work ... ...more
10 January 2012
By JOSH FAGAN
HUNDREDS of Bendigo students will have greater access to youth allowance this year, with restrictive regional and inner-regional criteria guidelines scrapped.
An extra 313 tertiary students in Bendigo have qualified for independent youth allowance, after federal gov... ...more