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Joint Media Release: Coalition Calls for Action on Road Safety Crisis

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...

Urgent Action Needed to Save WA’s Infrastructure Future

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...

Joint Media Release: Forestry sector cut down by dirty Labor-Greens deal on EPBC

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....

Joint Media Release: Coalition Urges Labor to Take PSHB Seriously

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,...

Labor’s Speed Limit Cut Won’t Fix Crumbling Roads

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...

Hit the road, Jack! Shadow Minister hits out at Albanese Government plan to slash speed limits on neglected rural roads

“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...