OPINION: Labor’s impact on regional Australia Opinion by News Of The Area - Modern Media - February 10, 2023 DEAR News Of The Area, NSW Labor leader Chris Minns made a comment last week on Moffee that he wants to change regional Australia’s opinion on the Labor party, yet less than twelve months ago his Federal Labor colleagues ripped $9 billion dollars out of regional Australia and moved those funds to his city electorates on the day he took power. The silence from our local Labor party was deafening when Albo pulled funding from our local university for the health service hub and pulled funding away from the veterans centre for the Mid North Coast to city Labor seats. Our own Council has suffered under Labor with Albo not willing to extend federal grants while our Council sort out its back log. Regional areas have gone backwards under Federal Labor and we can’t risk the same at the state level. Regards, Nikki WILLIAMS, Coffs Harbour.