Media releases
Saluting Their Service – Remembering Our Heroes
Thursday April 4, 2024 Federal Member for Nicholls, Mr Sam Birrell MP, has welcomed more than $21,000 in Federal funding to local organisations to...
Play Our Way – Funding for Community Sporting Clubs
Wednesday April 3, 2024 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, is encouraging sporting clubs to apply for the Federal Government’s Play Our...
Fresh Food Tax – Charges Farmers and Families more
Wednesday March 27 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says Labor’s new fresh food tax which hurts local producers and further drives up...
Advertising Destructive Water Buybacks
Friday March 8 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP has slammed an advertisement authorised by the Australian Government attempting to...
Taxing AUSSIES more – Labor’s ute and family car tax makes no sense
Thursday March 7 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says the Albanese Government’s family car and ute tax makes no sense and the...
Grant Opportunity – Strengthening Rural Communities
Thursday February 15 Federal Member for Nicholls, Mr Sam Birrell MP, is encouraging members of local organisations to apply for funding through...
Labor-Greens destructive deal sets the buyback clock ticking for communities
Friday December 1 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says the Labor-Greens deal on water is the worst outcome for farmers,...
MP’s get a taste of the Murray-Darling Basin
Tuesday November 14 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says a showcase of food and fibre from across the Murray Darling Basin has...
Birrell still believes in the Shepparton Bypass
Tuesday November 21, 2023 Federal member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says Nationals and Liberal Governments at federal and state level are the...
Keep Farmers Farming
Tuesday October 31 The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has been forced to take the extraordinary step of launching its largest advocacy...
The Fight Isn’t Over – Water Buybacks
Tuesday October 31 Federal member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP says Independent MPs, led by Member for Indi, Dr Helen Haines, have supported the...
2024 Nicholls Calendar Competition
Friday, October 6, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, is calling on established, amateur and budding photographers from across the...
Projects To Remember Our Heroes
Friday October 6, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Mr Sam Birrell MP, has welcomed nearly $30,000 in Federal funding to support commemorative...
Building Stronger Communities Across Nicholls
Thursday August 21st Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, has announced and welcomed nearly $150,000 in Federal Government funding for...
Fighting for our Future – Plibersek’s Plan a Travesty for Basin Communities
Thursday August 7th Federal member for Nicholls Sam Birrell says irrigators, basin communities and the regions productivity will be smashed by the...
Locals Urged to Help Stop Labor’s Fresh Food Tax
Wednesday August 9th 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, is urging farmers and families across the region to help stop Labor’s fresh...
Road Funding Must Continue for Nicholls
Wednesday August 9th 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, has welcomed $1.4 million dollars in Federal Government funding to upgrade...
Standing up for local growers and local jobs
Monday, August 7th, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, brandished a Goulburn Valley apple as he launched a blistering attack on the...
The Biggest Problem with The Murray- Darling Basin is the Date
Monday, July 31st, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell, says the June 2024 deadline for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is being used to...
Volunteer Grants Now Open
Monday, July 31st, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, is encouraging local not-for-profit-community organisations to express interest...
Supporting Regional Art Organisations – Arts Roundtable
Monday, June 13th, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, has partnered with the Special Envoy for the Arts, Susan Templeman, to host a...
$3.5 Million Secured to Help Communities Build Disaster Resilience
Friday, June 9th, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says $3.5 million in initial funding delivered to Nicholls through Australian...
Supporting and Remembering Our Veterans in Nicholls
Monday, May 22nd, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Mr Sam Birrell MP, says more than $20,000 in Federal Funding will be awarded to organisations...
Celebrating Volunteer Week With Grants to Support Local Volunteers
Monday, May 15th, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says 21 organisations across Nicholls will receive more than $66,000 in grant...
Budget 2023 – Regional Australia left behind under Labor
Wednesday May 5th 2023Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, says the Budget is a typical big-spending, big-taxing Labor Budget that doesn’t...
Cheaper Medicines a Bitter Pill For Chemists
Friday, April 28th, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell, says he shares the concerns of regional pharmacy operators about the impact of...
Mobile Blackspots – Where need is not politics
Thursday, April 27, 2023 Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, is demanding the Albanese Government provide adequate funding to improve...
Health and Wellness – can’t be ignored in the upcoming budget
Friday, April 21, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP has called on the Government to turn around years of generational disadvantage...
Blowing the whistle – fund local sport facilities
Wednesday, March, 29, 2023 Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell MP, has blown the whistle and called on the Labor Government to provide funding...
Birrell’s attack on Water Buybacks – extend the deadline
Wednesday, March, 22nd, 2023Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam Birrell, has led a blistering attack on the Albanese Government’s plan to use damaging...