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Ceremony for SES champion CHELSEA SES commander Ron Fitch has received one of the highest honours given to SES members. Last week Fitch was awarded his Emergency Service Medal. He was named as a winner of the award on Australia Day. At a ceremony at Government House on 3 May, Fitch accepted the award. He was accompanied by his 97-year-old mother Jean, who came down from Ararat to attend. Ron Fitch has been a member of Chelsea SES for 30 years, and unit controller for 26 of them. He was made a life member of the SES in 2017, and named Kingston’s outstanding citizen of the year in 2018. Picture: Supplied
RON Fitch (pictured right) with his mother, Jean, and emergency management commissioner Andrew Crisp. Picture: Supplied
Candidate referred to police over incorrect enrolment Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au THE Australian Electoral Commission has referred Liberal candidate for Isaacs Robbie Beaton to the Australian Federal Police. The AEC has asked the AFP to investigate the matter of Beaton’s residential address. Earlier this month Beaton admitted to listing the Bridge Hotel in
Aspendale as his residential address on his enrolment forms. The Liberal candidate actually resides in Camberwell, outside the Isaacs electorate. The AFP will probe whether Beaton has broken the law by stating an incorrect address on his forms. Beaton previously worked at the Bridge Hotel, but is no longer employed there after the business was sold last year. The AEC released a statement last week stating that despite the AFP re-
ferral, Beaton’s name remains on the ballot. “The AEC is aware of comments made in the media recently by Mr Beaton about his enrolled address. Following Mr Beaton’s candidate nomination for the 2022 federal election we have reviewed the declarations made on Mr Beaton’s enrolment and nomination forms. There is concern as to whether the information provided by him regarding his residential address on these forms is false,” the AEC
said. “The AEC has referred this matter to the AFP for investigation. “Candidate nominations for the Division of Isaacs must remain as they were formally declared on 22 April 2022. Ballot papers have been printed and distributed across the country for early voting to begin on Monday and many postal voters have already received their postal voting packs.” The Liberal Party did not comment when asked by The News if Beaton
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would be disendorsed. Last week Beaton said that a mistake was to blame. “My family owned that hotel for 38 years, and I worked there for the last 20 years until its recent sale. This is an honest mistake and had no intent to mislead anyone,” he said. (“Liberal candidate caught in enrolment blunder” The News 4/5/22) MPs are allowed live outside their own electorate, as is the case with incumbent Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus.