BendigoWeekly ISSUE 1116 FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2019
Appeal takes flight FORMER Royal Air Force air gunner Herb Jackson was front and centre of the Anzac Appeal launch yesterday. He joined Bomber Command aged 16. “I was angry after my grandmother was killed in an air raid. We lived in Hull, so I
lied about my age and joined up,” he said. Mr Jackson lives with his wife Irene in California Gully. “I’m 95 now and thank him upstairs each day. I lost so many good mates in the war.”
GAME ON Photo: BRENDAN McCARTHY
By NICHOLAS NAKOS
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has chosen May 18 as the day voters will go to the polls to decide which party will form the next federal government. Mr Morrison visited Government House on Thursday to ask Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove to trigger an election. His announcement has kick started a five week election campaign across the country, with Bendigo sure to be in the spotlight.
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Election called for May 18
Federal member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters said she is ready for an election. “I want central Victoria to be a strong, connected community with great schools, secure jobs people can count on and thriving local businesses,” Ms Chesters said. “This election is a choice between a fair go for Australia with Labor, or more cuts and chaos with
the Liberals,” she said. Bendigo’s Liberal candidate Sam Gayed said that the government’s plan for regional areas includes funding for safer regional roads, training hubs for areas of high youth unemployment and more than $200 million in local projects. “I am passionate about our region and the great potential that
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we can reach. I can get things done and I’m looking forward to doing that,” Mr Gayed said. The seat of Bendigo was hotly contested in 2016, with Ms Chesters receiving 38.4 per cent of first preference votes, which was boosted to 53.7 per cent after preferencing to defeat the Liberal Party’s Megan Purcell. Ms Chesters is seeking to be
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elected for a third term in Bendigo and will face a challenge from Mr Gayed and the Greens’ Robert Holian, among others. The Coalition government holds 73 seats and Labor has 72 seats in the House of Representatives, which will expand to 151 seats at the election. Australians have until April 18 to enrol to vote or update their enrolments, with candidates seeking election in both the House and Senate given until April 21 to nominate.
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