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Thankyou to the people of The New England

I would like to personally thank everyone who participated in our petition to Save the APVMA.

Yesterday, the 17^th of April 2024, the Minister for Agriculture, Murray Watt, flew into Armidale to make the announcement that The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) will remain in Armidale.

However, of major concern is, The Final Report on the Future Structure and Governance Arrangements for the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA), also known as the Rapid Evaluation, and the Government’s preliminary response has been released.

The recommendation in the report to revoke the government policy order that required APVMA staff to be based in Armidale, has been adopted by the Australian Labor Government, meaning that staff can now be based in Canberra.

This Labor Government, who are vehemently opposed to the decentralisation of government departments and agencies, have taken us for fools. We know, thanks to National Party Senators pressuring the Minister for Agriculture in Senate Estimates, that they have already been taking the jobs away from the New England, revealing that active recruitment for APVMA positions in Canberra has already been occurring over the last 12 months.

Murray Watt and the Labor Government has no vision for Armidale, or regard for our community, blatantly alleging our community is to blame for cultural issues in a government department. If this rule of blaming a location for cultural issues was applied right across the board of departments and agencies, Canberra would be a ghost town!

Thanks to you, for taking a stand for the community of Armidale and the New England, enough pressure was put on them to at least allow part of the Authority operation to remain in Armidale. As we face many challenges of ideological imposition from this cult-like Labor Government in our backyards, it is important that your voices are raised to be heard. Even though the announcement yesterday was not the response we were wanting to hear, at least we have made enough noise to tell the Labor Australian Government that we will not be insulted and punished for having a vision.

If you would like to be kept up to date with issues in the New England Electorate, please subscribe to my e-newsletter here. Thankyou again for your participation in our Petition, and please don’t hesitate to contact my Tamworth or Tenterfield offices on the numbers below or via email at Barnaby.Joyce.MP@aph.gov.au

Barnaby Joyce

Member for New England

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