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Nat Chat: A Common Sense Podcast

The Victorian Nationals are the only party dedicated to representing Regional Victoria. A group of common sense people, with a lot of life experience, working for the good of the the communities they live in.This is the long conversations you don"t get to hear and we"re also featuring people who are kicking goals around the electorate and those that have big ideas.

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28:52

Episode 23 - Danny O'Brien, Leader of The Victorian...

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2025/09/12

Send us a text Forgive me. I have sinned. It has been over three months since my last podcast upload and not because of any sort of Government mandated break. I've just been head down, bum up getting things done, except for new podcast episodes that I already had recorded. Anyway, nevermind. Here we are now with a chat I had with Leader of The Nationals Danny O'Brien at State Conference earlier this year. This is the first chat with Danny since he became our esteemed leader but there wi...

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27:36

Episode 22 - A lesson in humility and common sense...

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2025/06/09

Send us a text As the great Bill Belichick once said "True leadership is when you do the best thing for the team, knowing it's not the best thing for yourself." David Littleproud has faced a pile on from the media in the past few weeks for digging in his heels and not compromising on whats best for regional Australia. That is true leadership and he sat down with me at State Conference in Wodonga to unpack it a little, talk about some of the rumours and reflect on what it means to ...

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Episode 21: Tim Bull MP on the Kokoda Scholarship...

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2025/05/29

Send us a text Hon. Tim Bull MP has taken the lead on the Kokoda scholarship program the Liberals & Nationals have been running over the past decade or so. It fits - he is the Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs in Victorian Parliament and he's extremely passionate about it. This year, we are launching the inaugural Farnsworth Lochhead Lowe Scholarship for senior students in the Mildura electorate to attend this pilgramage to Kokoda to walk in the footsteps of our fallen heroes who esse...

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38:36

Episode 20 - Luke Alexander, United Firefighters...

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2025/05/08

Send us a text Look, I never thought I'd see the UFU come on a Nats podcast. History will show that we haven't been friends. However, history also shows that I work with anyone if its in the best interests of my community. Fortunately, I have an excellent relationship with our UFU representatives in Mildura, as well as our professional firefighters at Station 72 and our CFA staff & volunteers so we can have some very frank conversations. Luke Alexander is a born and bred...

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Episode 19 - Damo Bradshow, speedway, common sense...

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2025/05/06

Send us a text If you've ever been to Olympic Park Speedway, at least in the past 30 years or so, or you've ever switched your wireless over to 1467 The River, then you'd know the gravely sounds of Damion Bradshaw. I wanted to chat to Damo and Brenden Gledhill because between them they have over 50 years calling experience at Olympic Park. However, Brendan was "unable to make it" when we recorded this pod back in March, so it was just Damo & I left to our own devices. It did start o...

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Episode 18 - Anne Webster, election 2025

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2025/04/30

Send us a text It's been a long time in the making this election. We knew it was coming, but no one knew exactly when, so the campaign has been on for a long long time. Anne has rallied the LNP to be able to secure funding should we end up with a Dutton - Littleproud Government comen Saturday night. We discuss her announcements, her work ethic and a whole raft of other issues in the half hour we both had spare. This is stuff you'll never read in the paper and we're bringing it straight to you...

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Episode 17 - Toby Hederics, a head full of common sense

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2024/12/27

Send us a textI thoroughly enjoy the art of conversation. I hold it in high regard.I’ve met and got to know a lot of different people from all walks of life Let’s say I have.a fascination with getting to understand what motivates different people. I like to think I’m a pretty good judge of character.It may be what has led me to follow interesting, slightly obscure sports people who I think will be incredible on a world stage.Toby Hederics is a young man full of talent & common sense...

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Episode 16 - Common sense in our young people

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2024/12/20

Send us a textThis is one of my favourite chats. The location, the people I was speaking too, the common sense that flowed from them, the ideas - it was everything.Yes, it happened a while ago, but I'm posting this chat with two members of Buloke-Loddon's Youth Parliament now.DustyRaine & Fletcher presented a 'The Mandatory Concussion Education Bill 2024' and it passed with great support.It was a great Bill largely written by Dusty who's a bit of an expert in the field an...

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Episode 15: The Night The Phones Fell Silent

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2024/11/30

Send us a text** Before you start this podcast - please be aware that this could be quite traumatic for some listeners and it contains some very sensitive and personal recollections of traumatic events.**Please be advised---------------------------------------------February 18 2006 is The Night The Phones Fell Silent.It is a book that tells of Marco Medici’s accounts of that night and the after math that followed.It's written by Nathan Carnie.You’d remember Nathan from such books as "Monster ...

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Episode 14 - A bit of common sense with Julie Waters,...

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2024/10/21

Send us a textWe are well into Council elections and for Mildura Rural City Council this is the first time under a ward system.Seems odd when other regional cities and towns are moving away from it and it has certainly caused some feedback.All postal ballots are require back this week but first, here is a little chat with Millewa candidate Julie Waters.We acknowledge the land on which this podcast was recorded and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.Find info...

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Episode 13 - A common sense approach to the housing...

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2024/10/06

Send us a textYou know by now I’m very pragmatic, Very Practical, which is what attracted me ti the Nats in the first place. We love conversations with other pragmatists, like Ben Ridley - not only is he very practical, pragmatic and speaks in sports analogies which is my first language, he’s right at the coal face of the housing crisis being the principal of Collie & Teirney Real Estate in Mildura.He sees first hand, every day how Victoria’s Residential Tenancy Act and new an...

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Episode 12 - A common sense approach to Council

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2024/09/19

Send us a textWith Mildura Rural City Council now under a ward system, there is are new candidates, candidates that have run before and some with no opposition.Having the platform of a podcast is a good opportunity to have a chat with some new candidates that took up the invitation to get an insight into what's driving them to stand and what their expectations are.I managed to have a chat to Carli Leishmann & Katie Clements during the week, just after nominations had closed.Ballots ...

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Episode 11 - The only Olympian in Victorian Parliament

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2024/09/02

Send us a textThis podcast was supposed to be a special Olympic episode, but things happened, it got delayed, life got in the way for me but I'm back. Just in time for the Paris Paralympics, so technically, we're still ok.You may have seen an Olympic blazer in the Victorian Parliament a few weeks ago and although it's possibly a little tighter than when he was an athlete at his peak, it's still something to be immensely proud of. Sam Groth is a world record holder, even though

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Episode 10 - Young Nats have oodles of common sense

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2024/07/20

Send us a Text Message.This is one I've been holding onto for a while. Since Nats State Conference in May in fact.There's a couple of reasons for this; A) Annabelle's birthday is this week and she's now no longer a Young Nat so it's full tilt for everything! Happy birthday!B) It's Birth Trauma Awareness week and Annabelle talk about that in this episode. Birth trauma is also something that affected me and my eldest child, but it wasn't my driver into politics. It was certain...

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Episode 8 - Josh Waters, common sense champion on and...

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2024/07/05

Josh Waters has won not one, not two, but three Australian Superbike Championships, and looks good to potentially win his fourth this season, something that no one, in the history of ASBK has ever done before!He's also about to head back to Japan to ride the Suzuka 8 Hour for the eleventh time!This is like the La Mans of road racing, a rock star event where Josh is treated as such. People are paying thousands to meet the bloke. It's amazing, and yet, as you'll see here...

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Episode 8 - A common sense kind of guy, Mick Harrington

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2024/06/13

You'd remember Mower Mick from The Voice in 2021.That angelic voice that floated from the vocal chords of a seemingly man's man from Gippsland.We were all stuck at home, don't pretend like you didn't watch it, we all did.Mick was runner up, and it's a great lesson in never judging a book. I mean, you can make the assumption that he needs to wear a very good sunscreen given his ginger colouring, but he is a gentle giant with the most generous heart and hopelessly ...

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Episode 7 - A common sense approach to roads and the...

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2024/05/25

Labor can't manage money, they can't manage projects and it's your family paying the price, particularly on our roads.Danny O'Brien, Member for Gippsland South & Shadow Minister for Roads and Roads maintenance is also a ten year veteran of the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee.So I managed to grab him at the end of the last Parliamentary sitting week and then again at our State Conference to catch us up on the PAEC hearings that have been happening over the last weeks or so.&n...

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Episode 6 - A common sense approach to the budget...

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2024/05/06

On the eve of the Labor's tenth budget in a row, here is the next installment of our common sense podcast.Budgeting and trying to pay your debt down makes sense to most of us.As does, not spending money you don't have.Apparently that's not the perspective of the Allan Labor Government who are currently paying Victoria's interest bill at $15 million PER DAY.I caught up with Brad Rowswell, Shadow Treasurer and Member for Sandringham in my office at Parliament house to discuss.We acknowledge the...

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Episode 5 - Why celebrating ANZAC Day is just common...

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2024/04/21

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Episode 4 - We put champions on racetracks and common...

Nat Chat: A Common Sense Podcast ·

2024/03/28

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