Shadow Portfolio — 25 March 2026

The Deputy Manager of Opposition Business, the Member for Page, used his 25 March parliamentary activity to combine electorate-focused recognition with a targeted question on regional service vulnerability. In Question Time, he pressed the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors on whether the government had a plan to prevent rising fuel costs from forcing community transport providers in the Page electorate to cut services to more than 2,000 vulnerable people [TA-260325-house-8e0b2c08f739:s148].

The question positions fuel cost increases as a direct threat to aged care and disability transport access in regional Australia, linking a broader cost-of-living pressure to a concrete local impact with a quantified population at risk. No government plan was identified in the records; the gap is the point of the question. Earlier in the same sitting day, the Member for Page acknowledged three milestones in Casino: the Casino Greyhound Racing Club's 90th birthday, tracing its founding at Queen Elizabeth Park in 1936 and the multi-generational stewardship of the Northfield family; the Casino branch of the Country Women's Association's centenary, with life members Rita Nicholls and Anne Bailey recognised for 40 and 69½ years of service respectively; and Darren Crispin's 24-hour tennis marathon for the Love Your Sister charity, building on a prior 12-hour effort that raised over $25,000 [TA-260325-house-8e0b2c08f739:s120].

The combination is a coherent regional electorate day: community recognition paired with a direct challenge to the government on a service-delivery risk that falls squarely on older and vulnerable constituents. No comms-stream material was supplied for this date; the parliamentary record is the sole source.