Youth unemployment highest in Gippsland
The youth unemployment rate in Gippsland is now the highest of anywhere in regional Victoria, Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath says. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics…
Labor’s surging power price crisis
Gippsland families and businesses are paying too much for energy a review into Victoria’s energy market has found. Speaking in Parliament today, Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath said…
Bath backs record funding for palliative care
Gippsland residents will have access to world-class palliative care under a Liberal-Nationals government, Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath has said. Ms Bath said an elected Liberal-Nationals government would provide…
Petition launched for special school funding
Nationals’ MPs Melina Bath and Tim Bull have helped launch a petition calling on the State government to allocate funding in the 2018/19 budget for long overdue upgrades to the…
Make your voice heard in regional fuel Inquiry
Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath has urged families and businesses to make their voices heard in a parliamentary inquiry into regional fuel prices. Nationals and Liberal MPs fought hard…
Labor’s Yallourn North Primary School funding backflip well overdue
A $1.5 million commitment for major works at Yallourn North Primary School is long overdue, Member for Eastern Victoria and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Country Schools Melina Bath has said.…
Zero tolerance approach to fuel theft
Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath has welcomed today’s announcement by the Liberal National Coalition that fuel drive-offs would be treated as a criminal matter under a Guy Government from…
Gippsland youth unemployment on the rise
Youth unemployment in Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley is rising as Labor’s regional jobs crisis continues, according to Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath. Australia Bureau of Statistics data for…
Blackouts predicted in Latrobe Valley
Daniel Andrews’ closure of Hazelwood Power Station threatens to cause blackouts in Latrobe Valley this summer, Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath says. As the first summer without Hazelwood approaches,…
Recognising our volunteers
Member for Eastern Victoria Region Melina Bath is encouraging people across Gippsland to nominate volunteers from within the region for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Champions Awards. “Volunteers play a…
