Works are officially underway on the Heathcote Civic Precinct (Community Hub) incorporating Heathcote Library, funded through the Albanese Government’s Growing Regions Program.

October marks three years since Rochester and parts of Greater Bendigo, Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges Shires flooded in what would become Victoria's worst flood disaster on record. 

My electorate office will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday 1st October) due to protest activity blocking the entrance and making it impossible for diligent electorate office staff to serve the community. 

People with student debts will see up to $50 a fortnight extra in their take-home pay from yesterday (24 September), as a result of the Federal Labor Government’s changes to student debt repayments.

The Labor Government is continuing to recognise the efforts of volunteers and community organisations, today announcing that 19 local groups in the Bendigo electorate will receive grants up to $5,000.

The Albanese Government is supporting stronger Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in Bendigo with the official opening of the Bendigo and District Aboriginal Co-operative medical and wellbeing centre.

Creative Australia continues to back artists in the Bendigo electorate, with 9 local creative projects sharing in $14.8 million of funding distributed through the Arts Projects and International Engagement Fund programs.

The Albanese Labor Government has announced more than $76 million in funding to 54 projects across the country which will help farmers adopt climate-smart sustainable agriculture practices.

The Federal Labor Government is supporting science education in regional Victoria with a $10,385 grant for Jurassic Wonders, a new program at the Discovery Science & Technology Centre, delivered as part of National Science Week 2025.

The Albanese Government is making cheaper medicines even cheaper – legislation was introduced to Parliament in the first sitting fortnight that will mean a prescription on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) will cost Central Victorians no more than $25 from 1 January next year.