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Dunkley MP Peta Murphy celebrates her re-election with friends and family. Picture: Gary Sissons
Peta Murphy secures victory in Dunkley Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au PETA Murphy has won a second term as the member for Dunkley. As of 22 May, a day after polls closed, the incumbent Labor MP is comfortably ahead. With 66.5 per cent of the vote counted Murphy is around 10,000 votes ahead of Liberal Sharn
Coombes on the two-party-preferred vote. Murphy has enjoyed a swing of 4.2 per cent towards her in Dunkley, with the margin between the two major parties now at around seven per cent. Murphy will now get the chance to represent the area while in government, after serving out her first term from opposition. Murphy’s supporters celebrated her win at Frankston Bowl-
ing Club on Saturday. Before the election last weekend, Murphy told The Times “there is no doubt that the rising costs of living, climate inaction and a lack of integrity in the current government are uppermost in people’s minds.” “I will continue to lead by example, bringing honesty, integrity, and a commitment to fairness to everything I do,” she said. “Labor will make it
easier to get ahead with cheaper child care, fee-free TAFE and 20,000 new university places, take meaningful action on climate change and introduce a National Anti-Corruption Commission.” The Greens also performed well in Dunkley, garnering just over 10 per cent of the first preference votes. United Australia Party received a little more than five per cent of the vote.
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Anti-vax independent Darren Bergwerf, who took to social media to falsely claim victory before the polls had closed, has received four per cent of the vote so far. In the lead-up to the federal election, Labor made multi-million dollar commitments to projects in Frankston, Carrum Downs, and Mt Eliza. Continued page 3