The NSW Government and Wagga Wagga City Council will together invest a further $70.8 million to fast-track infrastructure supporting the delivery of new homes for the Wagga Wagga community.
Read MoreThe NSW Government and Wagga Wagga City Council will together invest a further $94.4 million to fast-track infrastructure supporting the delivery of new homes for the Wagga Wagga community.
Read MoreWomen’s sport in Wagga Wagga has benefitted from a $739,000 injection, following the awarding of grants in the NSW Government’s Level the Playing Field Program.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, and local Nationals MLC Wes Fang have joined forces across both houses of parliament to push for major improvements to the community benefits package proposed for communities affected by HumeLink.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has thanked local communities who have helped drive legislation that opens an avenue for amalgamated councils to demerge.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has joined with the Wagga Women’s Health Centre in encouraging the local community to get behind a new campaign raising awareness of coercive control of women.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has acknowledged the findings and recommendations in a new report by the Select Committee investigating the feasibility of undergrounding infrastructure for renewable energy infrastructure.
Read MoreRising Indigenous artist Juanita McLauchlan is looking seven generations into the past and the future, in a major new exhibition to open at Parliament House in Sydney this month.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has welcomed the Government’s announcement of a parliamentary committee inquiry into youth crime in regional and rural NSW.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has referred white supremacist letters distributed in local letter boxes to police.
Read MoreThe independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, says the NSW Government’s announcement of a review of compulsory land acquisitions for communities affected by public projects is long overdue but welcome, especially in relation to renewable energy infrastructure.
Read MoreThe Wagga Wagga Local Woman of the Year 2024 award has been presented to Lynne Graham in recognition of her significant work to support the community.
Read MoreThe Modern Slavery Committee has today released its report for its review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (the Act). The joint committee was required to conduct a review of the Act within two years of its commencement and report on whether the Act's policy objectives remain valid, and whether its terms remain appropriate for the securing those objectives.
Read MoreThe Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has welcomed news that the NSW Government will end the controversial Emergency Services Levy (ESL), with the government saying it will help to reduce insurance costs for households and businesses.
Read MoreWhen we think of slavery, the days of ancient Rome or Greece may spring to mind, or more recently, the horrific treatment of Africans on plantations in America’s south.
Read MoreIn a major breakthrough for Riverina cancer patients, the Independent Member for Wagga Wagga, Dr Joe McGirr, has secured a pledge from the government in parliament to provide free (bulk-billed) radiotherapy and medical oncology treatment from next year.
Read MoreThe end of life is something that many of us prefer not to think about, but it comes to us all and where possible, we all deserve to pass on peacefully and without unnecessary pain.
Read MoreIn politics, as in life, hard decisions sometimes must be made for the greater good of all concerned.
That’s why I’ve supported the NSW Government’s decision to conduct aerial culling of feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park, as a means to protect the fragile alpine environment from the damage caused by this introduced species.
Read MoreThank you to Michael Pym for bringing in these great photos of Tarcutta Public School from yesteryear.
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