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I am privileged to be appointed Shadow Minister for Choice in Childcare and Early Learning and Shadow Minister for Child Protection and Prevention of Family Violence in Angus Taylor’s Coalition Shadow Ministry.  Labor’s childcare system is locked into a rigid, one-size-fits-all model forcing children into centre-based care with little regard for what genuinely suits their families. This simply does not reflect the reality or needs of Australian…

Today I resigned from my position as Shadow Assistant Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Infrastructure, effective immediately. This decision has not been taken lightly. However, I have reached the view that the Coalition currently lacks the policy clarity, leadership and strategic direction required to rebuild trust with voters and present a compelling alternative government. In…

Australia’s road toll rose in 2025 with approximately 1,314 lives lost on roads across the country. This upward trend in road fatalities is the highest annual toll in the last 15 years and underscores an alarming reversal in national road safety trends. The Albanese Labor government’s implementation of the National Road Safety Strategy has failed…

Figures revealed through Senator Matt O’Sullivan’s Budget Estimates questions confirm the WA Labor government has not only delayed critical infrastructure projects but is overseeing a total collapse in federal infrastructure investment in our state. Treasury’s responses show Commonwealth infrastructure payments to Western Australia will plummet from $4.299 billion in 2024-25 to just A$688 million by…

Labor’s dirty deal with The Greens to pass controversial changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act will decimate Australia’s forestry sector, sending jobs offshore, and deliver the death knell to an industry under siege from inner city environmentalists. Nationals Senator for New South Wales and Shadow Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, Water, and…

Labor is missing in action on the invasive Polyphagous Shot-Hole Borer (PSHB) outbreak in Perth, leaving Western Australia to confront one of the most serious biosecurity threats in decades alone. PSHB poses a catastrophic risk to our urban tree canopy, national parks, sustainable forestry and timber industries and the nursery sector. All 30 metropolitan local…

Under the Albanese Labor Government regional roads across Australia are deteriorating at an alarming rate. Instead of investing in proper maintenance and ensuring safer and more reliable roads, the Labor Government’s response is to simply lower the speed limits. The Government is considering reducing default speed limits on regional roads from 100 km/h down to…

“How about they just fix the bloody roads?” – that’s the immediate reaction of The Nationals’ Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Dr Anne Webster MP to the Albanese Labor Government’s plan to reduce default national speed limits to as low as 70 kilometres an hour on sealed and unsealed roads. “Let me be crystal clear – we do…

Yesterday, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure, Senator Matt O’Sullivan, Rick Wilson MP, Senator Slade Brockman, and Hon Neil Thomson MLC attended the AGM of the Outback Way Council, bringing together local leaders to review progress and discuss practical next steps for this nationally significant project. The Outback Way, known as Australia’s Longest Shortcut, stretches from…