Pryse-Smith stands to protect farmers

PAULINE Hanson’s One Nation party has a local Western Victorian candidate seeking election in the upper house of State Parliament this month.

Ross Creek’s Terri Pryse-Smith is campaigning with a focus on better health and education, to protect farmers, to stop the AusNet transmission lines, and to broadly look after the vulnerable, poor, elderly, disabled, and veterans.

“I’m an advocate for the whole transmission line system to be stopped through the whole top part of our region,” she said.

“It’s going to destroy tourism, destroy the land, make the existing water infrastructure useless, threaten native animals and destroy habitat as it goes through the Wombat Forest, and split farms in two.

“It’s shocking to desecrate that fertile farmland.”

She said the state’s health system has been inadequate since before the pandemic.

“We need to bolster the number of regional doctors, nurses, and other critical health care professionals back out into the rural and regional areas.

“We’ve still got people travelling from Hamilton, Portland, Geelong, driving miles away to go and have a scan or a test. It’s simply not good enough,” she said.

“Pauline Hanson has a contract to get newly qualified medical professionals out into the regions on a three-year contract, and in return, will pay their HECS loans in full.

“All of the healthcare workers that were sacked by Dan Andrews need to be re-instated to receive full back pay and to be given their jobs back.”

Ms Pryse-Smith said a “clean slate” is needed for the education system.

“We need to get rid of critical race and critical gender theory, we need to get back to the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, and to Judeo Christian, liberal, western democratic values again,” she said.

“We’re failing in NAPLAN, we’re failing up against comparable education systems around the world. We’ve got kids leaving high school who can’t read and write. It’s disgraceful.”

The Foreign Investment Review Board is also something Ms Pryse-Smith would like to see put under the spotlight.

“Anything to do with farming and farmland has to pass the Foreign Investment Review Board national interest test, and if it’s not in the nation’s best interest, it does not pass.

“The AusNet towers should not have passed. It doesn’t pass the pub test,” she said.

Ms Pryse-Smith said climate change is a “Ponzi” and wealth redistribution scheme.

“Why are we impoverishing our nation to go to renewables? We should be building more coal fired power stations so we can have clean, green, affordable energy, instead of buying into this renewables nonsense,” she said.

In the Federal election earlier this year Ms Pryse-Smith stood as a United Australia Party candidate for the seat of Ballarat.