A new face will be welcoming constituents at Ali Cupper’s Southern Mallee Electorate Hub, based in Birchip.
Sandy Pollington has been employed as a Constituent Service Officer and is now working part time at the 31 Cumming Avenue shopfront.
MEMBER for Mildura Ali Cupper is calling for an increase to the Federal Assistance Grants funding pool, not only to address rates imbalances, but to keep major infrastructure projects on track in the wake of COVID-19 related cost increases.
The Victorian Government yesterday confirmed that it will be writing to the Federal Minister for Immigration, Alex Hawke, to request additional state nomination visa places for regional Victoria, and the regions may have Mildura to thank.
Just prior to Christmas, local businessman Baljinder Sandhu brought to Ms Cupper’s attention a significant disparity in the amount of regional skilled visa workers requested by Victoria compared with other states.
ARTS Mildura has recently received an extension and increase to its funding streams.
They will now collect $200,000 of State Government money a year for four years, under the Victorian Government’s Creative Enterprises Program.
MILDURA Base Public Hospital’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has vastly improved since the Base returned to public hands.
Member for Mildura Ali Cupper said the way the hospital has been dealing with COVID-19 far surpasses the efforts that were being made when the Base was privately run.
MEMBER for Mildura Ali Cupper will host an online forum next week to discuss worker shortages within Mildura’s hospitality and retail sectors.
Invitations have been sent out for the two-hour event, which will take place from 5:30pm on Wednesday, January 19.
It’s always feels a bit strange being invited to sports events, especially athletics. As a kid I hated athletics almost as much as swimming.
I remember one day in Grade 2, crying on the morning of the inter school sports day, begging mum to please not make me go.
“Mum, where is Mopsy’s head?” Jed asked … in relation to my pet rabbit who passed away in 1994.
Jed is fascinated by death and the afterlife. And it runs in the family.
MEMBER for Mildura Ali Cupper has written to Victoria’s Local Government Minister, Shaun Leane, presenting a two-pronged solution to address the disproportionate burden affecting rural
MEMBER for Mildura Ali Cupper is imploring the NSW Government to accept every recommendation made by the Select Committee on Floodplain Harvesting.
“In the end it’s about fairness – irrigators in my electorate by-and-large are doing the right thing, now it’s time for New South Wales irrigators to follow suit,” Ms Cupper said.
