Labor MP for Western Victoria Jaala Pulford has called on Victorian Tourism Minister Louise Asher to provide tangible support to struggling tourism operators in the StateParliament. “Local communities like Halls Gap and Stawell are crying out for assistance to get visitors back into their towns”..

An award winning crime prevention program for at-risk youth in Western Victoriawill be shutdown unless the Napthine Government intervenes, State Member for Western Victoria, Ms Pulford said today. Operation Newstart assisted more than 2,000 of the State’s most at-risk young people before the Napthine Government..