Helen Haines has written to the new Federal Health Minister Mark Butler, inviting him to visit Indi to fully understand the health care challenges faced in the region, and to discuss the need for federal funding for a new single-site hospital in Albury Wodonga.

Helen Haines has officially been declared the re-elected Independent Federal Member for Indi by the Australian Electoral Commission in Wangaratta on Tuesday.

With health shaping up to be the key battleground issue for Indi voters, Helen Haines today called on people of Indi to cast their vote for their health and the wellbeing of their community.

As an Independent, I am guided by what the community tells me, by the values that these volunteers commit to.

With just a week before election day, both major parties should commit the $26 million needed to build a new aged care facility in Bright, said Independent Federal Member for Indi Helen Haines on Friday.

Three towns in Indi will receive better mobile phone coverage after successfully being granted funding under the Regional Connectivity Program.

A proposal to upgrade home appliances and make it cheaper to install batteries would save the average household up to $5000 a year and boost the economy of North East Victoria by almost $300 million every year.

Dozens of doctors, nurses, midwives, and other health workers have stepped out with Helen Haines to back her as the most trusted champion for a new single-site world-class hospital on the border.

On the three-year anniversary of Scott Morrison’s commitment to Wodonga residents to build an overpass at the notorious McKoy Street intersection on the Hume Freeway, Helen Haines said the stalled project showed the Coalition talked big at election time but fails to follow through.

Following a series of recent advertisements, I am pleased to confirm to your readers it is indeed true that Helen Haines is not me. If I stood tall, Helen stands taller.