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Meet Chloe, a Year 12 student at Rushworth P-12 College who is already building a career in agriculture before she has even finished school.
Chloe works at the Rushworth Bakery/cafe and has spent the past two or three months working at a local dairy, getting up early to help before school.
She recently completed the Respecting Our Forest Youth Takeover project, and says the experience taught her the value of teamwork.
After graduating in November, Chloe is heading to a sheep and cattle station near Cobram, with her sights set on a long term career in agriculture. Her favourite part of the job is working with sheep in the yards.
She told me why she thinks it matters for young people, and especially young women, to get into the industry.
'There's not really many women in this field. It's mainly men,' she said.
Her message for anyone considering a career in agriculture is simple.
'Just give it a try, no matter what,' she said.
Nicholls needs more young people like Chloe backing themselves into the industries that built this region.
Chloe works at the Rushworth Bakery/cafe and has spent the past two or three months working at a local dairy, getting up early to help before school.
She recently completed the Respecting Our Forest Youth Takeover project, and says the experience taught her the value of teamwork.
After graduating in November, Chloe is heading to a sheep and cattle station near Cobram, with her sights set on a long term career in agriculture. Her favourite part of the job is working with sheep in the yards.
She told me why she thinks it matters for young people, and especially young women, to get into the industry.
'There's not really many women in this field. It's mainly men,' she said.
Her message for anyone considering a career in agriculture is simple.
'Just give it a try, no matter what,' she said.
Nicholls needs more young people like Chloe backing themselves into the industries that built this region.
BACKING THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD OUR REGION
Regional economies depend on people prepared to invest, take risks and build productive businesses. Our dairy industry is built on that entrepreneurship, and governments need to create the conditions for continued investment and growth.
Regional economies depend on people prepared to invest, take risks and build productive businesses. Our dairy industry is built on that entrepreneurship, and governments need to create the conditions for continued investment and growth.
The baby boomer generation built this country. Now Labor is cutting their private health insurance rebate.
National Seniors says it will hit millions of older Australians who paid their taxes and did their bit.
In our electorate office we hear it constantly. People about my age coming in and saying they cannot get an aged care package for mum and dad. It has been ages, and nobody can tell them what can be done.
Older Australians deserve better than this.
National Seniors says it will hit millions of older Australians who paid their taxes and did their bit.
In our electorate office we hear it constantly. People about my age coming in and saying they cannot get an aged care package for mum and dad. It has been ages, and nobody can tell them what can be done.
Older Australians deserve better than this.
Our community has finally got it done, and it's about to happen.
From later this month, Shepparton will have nine passenger rail return services to Melbourne each day, up from five. For a growing regional city with some of the best food processing, manufacturing and farming industry in the country, that is a big step forward.
This came down to years of work. Stage 3 of the project cost $400 million in total, with $320 million of that funded federally. That investment set the line up to take the extra trains, with passing loops and signalling upgrades across the Goulburn Valley.
Better rail means better access to jobs, education and health care right across our region.
Shepparton, this one has been a long time coming.
From later this month, Shepparton will have nine passenger rail return services to Melbourne each day, up from five. For a growing regional city with some of the best food processing, manufacturing and farming industry in the country, that is a big step forward.
This came down to years of work. Stage 3 of the project cost $400 million in total, with $320 million of that funded federally. That investment set the line up to take the extra trains, with passing loops and signalling upgrades across the Goulburn Valley.
Better rail means better access to jobs, education and health care right across our region.
Shepparton, this one has been a long time coming.
STATE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GRAINS INDUSTRY
Great to attend the launch of the State of the Australian Grains Industry report - it is a critically important industry to our economy and to the world’s food supply.
Australia is among the top 5 wheat and barley exporters in the world, and we dominate the world chickpea market, at 40% of exports.
Our farmers are some of the most innovative and efficient in the world including those in our own Goulburn and Murray valleys.
Great to see this area get a good soak over the weekend.
Great to attend the launch of the State of the Australian Grains Industry report - it is a critically important industry to our economy and to the world’s food supply.
Australia is among the top 5 wheat and barley exporters in the world, and we dominate the world chickpea market, at 40% of exports.
Our farmers are some of the most innovative and efficient in the world including those in our own Goulburn and Murray valleys.
Great to see this area get a good soak over the weekend.
Great news for Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley.
We are getting nine passenger rail return services between Melbourne and Shepparton, up from five. For a city the size of Shepparton, five services was never good enough.
This result goes back years. Stage 3 of the rail upgrade was a $400 million project, with the former Coalition Government funding $320 million of it, 80 per cent of the total cost. The Victorian Government promised completion by the end of 2023. It has taken until now.
Better rail means better access to jobs, education and health care right across Nicholls.
I was CEO of the Committee for Greater Shepparton when this fight began, and I have seen firsthand what community advocacy can achieve when people refuse to accept a substandard service.
Persistence and the backing of a Coalition Government delivers results for the Goulburn Valley.
We are getting nine passenger rail return services between Melbourne and Shepparton, up from five. For a city the size of Shepparton, five services was never good enough.
This result goes back years. Stage 3 of the rail upgrade was a $400 million project, with the former Coalition Government funding $320 million of it, 80 per cent of the total cost. The Victorian Government promised completion by the end of 2023. It has taken until now.
Better rail means better access to jobs, education and health care right across Nicholls.
I was CEO of the Committee for Greater Shepparton when this fight began, and I have seen firsthand what community advocacy can achieve when people refuse to accept a substandard service.
Persistence and the backing of a Coalition Government delivers results for the Goulburn Valley.
