Last night’s Budget focuses on easing cost-of-living pressures and lays the foundation for a stronger economy and a fairer society. It’s a Budget that delivers for local people.

A centrepiece of the Budget is a $14.6 billion cost-of-living package to help Australians doing it tough.

Grant guidelines have now been released for the first round of the Australian Government’s new $600 million Growing Regions Program, with expressions of interest to open on July 5 this year.

The October 2022-23 Budget established new grants programs to replace the discredited programs run by the Liberals and Nationals.

The Labor Government is delivering on our election commitment to provide an extra $250 million dollars for road projects in rural, regional and outer-urban areas under Phase 4 of the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program.

Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters MP welcomes changes which will allow some patients requiring routine medication to buy two months’ worth of medicine for the price of a single prescription.

The Labor Government has announced changes to pharmacy dispensing that will ease cost of living pressures and make hundreds of common medicines cheaper.

Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters is calling for improved access to bulk billing services in the Bendigo Electorate as new data is released.

Department of Health and Aged Care reporting into GP bulk billing access rates shows that in the year to June 2022, the Bendigo Electorate had one of the lowest rates of access to bulk billing GP services in Australia.

More than $10 million in funding will be allocated to timber manufacturing companies across the state to encourage further innovation in the industry.

The Albanese Government today announced the successful recipients of the Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation (AAWPI) grant program.

Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters has launched her 2023 School Book Donation Program today at Kangaroo Flat Primary School.

Federal Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters is encouraging local schools to take advantage of new rebates to visit the nation’s capital in 2023.

New rebates for schools and available via the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) program will make it more affordable for schools and students across the country to visit Canberra this year as part of their civics and citizenship education.

Bendigo has been named as one of the first Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinics in Australia.

Bendigo Community Health Services will receive more than $700,000 over four years, towards support for hiring specialised staff, investment in equipment or fit outs, as well as resources, training, and development.

Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters MP has announced close to $100,000 in funding for a local caravan park, to boost tourism in the Bendigo electorate.

The grant, administered under the Australian Government’s Caravan Parks Grant program have been awarded to BIG4 Castlemaine Gardens Holiday Park to the sum of $90,420.