30 August, 2011
Local manufacturers and broader industry will have the opportunity to contribute directly to future manufacturing policy after it was announced today the Federal Member for Indi and Shadow Industry Minister, Sophie Mirabella MP will be co-chairing a high level Coalition manufacturing review.
The an...
22 August, 2011
Federal Member for Indi, Sophie Mirabella MP has warned the Council and residents of the Alpine Shire to tread carefully on the proposed Rural Land Strategy and to heed the lessons of other council’s failures.
Mrs Mirabella, a vocal opponent of Wangaratta’s draft land strategy, said that Council mu...
03 August, 2011
As the North East Rail service descends further into chaos, the time has come for Federal Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese to come to the North East and explain to commuters what steps he is taking to ensure a safe and reliable service is finally returned.
The North East Rail Revitalisation Pro...
28 July, 2011
Sophie Mirabella has congratulated the organisers of the Australian apple industry rally in Shepparton today.
Local growers in Northern and North East Victoria are right to be furious with the Gillard Government relying on the New Zealand apple industry to verify that New imported apples ar...
21 July, 2011
The Victorian Government must urgently review a Police procurement decision which may place Victorian jobs at risk and add to concerns over the viability of the textile industry in Australia.
Wangaratta textile manufacturer Bruck has been shut out as a supplier of Victorian Police uniform f...
14 July, 2011
Local jobs in manufacturing, food processing, agriculture and transport will be sacrificed to the toxic carbon tax. The cost pressures to local businesses and household budgets will be far worse than the Government’s claims.
The local price of groceries will rise higher than Treasury modell...
01 July, 2011
Sophie Mirabella MP, Federal Member for Indi has been appointed to a high level working group that will investigate ways to strengthen the rules governing the sale of Australian agricultural land and agribusiness to foreign entities.
Foreign acquisition of farming land has been the source of increa...
22 June, 2011
A year after the spectacular knifing of Kevin Rudd and the bloody rise of Julia Gillard, there is very little for Indi or the nation to celebrate.
This Friday will represent a year to the day since Ms Gillard told the Australian public that Labor had lost its way under Kevin Rudd. In her first pres...
21 June, 2011
A Fair Work Australia decision to ease minimum engagement requirements for casual work by school students has been welcomed by Member for Indi, Sophie Mirabella MP as a win for local working students.
Prior to the Fair Work decision, Labor’s policy required retailers to offer student workers a mini...
15 June, 2011
Labor’s latest back-flip over the export of live cattle to Indonesia is good news for graziers in the North East, says Sophie Mirabella MP, Federal Member for Indi.
The Labor caucus this week passed a motion for the immediate cessation of live cattle exports to Indonesian abattoirs that don’t compl...