Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters, has announced 7 successful recipients of Round 1 of the 2025-26 Local Sporting Champions Grants and Local Para Champions Grants.

Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters met with the YO Bendigo Team today to announce $100,000 in Federal Government funding towards a new youth engagement project.

Works are officially underway on the Heathcote Civic Precinct (Community Hub) incorporating Heathcote Library, funded through the Albanese Government’s Growing Regions Program.

October marks three years since Rochester and parts of Greater Bendigo, Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges Shires flooded in what would become Victoria's worst flood disaster on record. 

My electorate office will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday 1st October) due to protest activity blocking the entrance and making it impossible for diligent electorate office staff to serve the community. 

People with student debts will see up to $50 a fortnight extra in their take-home pay from yesterday (24 September), as a result of the Federal Labor Government’s changes to student debt repayments.

The Labor Government is continuing to recognise the efforts of volunteers and community organisations, today announcing that 19 local groups in the Bendigo electorate will receive grants up to $5,000.

The Albanese Government is supporting stronger Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in Bendigo with the official opening of the Bendigo and District Aboriginal Co-operative medical and wellbeing centre.

Creative Australia continues to back artists in the Bendigo electorate, with 9 local creative projects sharing in $14.8 million of funding distributed through the Arts Projects and International Engagement Fund programs.

The Albanese Labor Government has announced more than $76 million in funding to 54 projects across the country which will help farmers adopt climate-smart sustainable agriculture practices.