Category: Media Release

Local MPs renew calls to investigate DWS data

A call for the Albanese Government to investigate the data used to determine the District Workforce Shortage status for cardiologists in the Wide Bay-Burnett region has been renewed following a recent meeting in Canberra.

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Labor’s attack on backpackers will hurt region’s growers

Federal Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt said the Albanese Labor Government’s two-pronged attack on backpackers would be devastating for local growers and the local economy.

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Labor plan fails to provide funding or detail to address social issues

A document quietly tabled in the Parliament last week has verified the serious challenges the Cashless Debit Card was starting to address in Hinkler before the Albanese Government dumped the card.

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Bundaberg a city divided with Labor’s flood levee

The Albanese and Palaszczuk Government’s will divide Bundaberg into a city of have and have nots, with funding for the East Bundaberg Flood Levee announced today.

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Calls to reinstate business support program scrapped by Labor

A program which has supported more than 1,300 businesses across the Wide Bay-Burnett region has been cut by the Albanese Government in its Budget, with the service to end on 30 June 2023.

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Labor’s big taxing, big spending Budget lacks long term solutions

Federal Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt has slammed the Albanese Government’s “sugar hit” Budget handed down tonight.

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Affordable and reliable electricity, urgent price relief needs to be prioritised

Federal Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt is calling for urgent price relief, an investment into nuclear and immediate commitment to assisting gas exploration and extraction after strong support from constituents in recent survey.

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Labor’s Federal Budget must alleviate cost of living pressures

Federal Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt is calling on the Albanese Government to announce significant and on-going measures to help ease cost of living pressures on local residents in the upcoming Federal Budget.

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MEDIA STATEMENT: The proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament

While the Prime Minister has finally revealed what the Australian people will be asked in the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament later this year, there are questions that remain unanswered.

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Queen’s Jubilee tree planting at commemorative garden

A combined commemorative garden at Bundaberg South State School will provide a place for students, staff and community members to remember Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years of service and fallen soldiers.

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