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NSW VOTES
done’ – including the towering new, $723m Tweed Valley Hospital in Kingscliff – is what voters will remember at the polling booths.
“I’ve always had the feeling that you don’t win at an election in the last 3-months, you win an election over what you’ve delivered over the last 3-4 years,” The Nationals Geoff Provest, Tweed MP said.
He cited the Perrottet Coalition Government’s Savings programs (more than 50) including Creative Kids, Active Kids and Back to School vouchers as helping with the cost of living and developing local sport.
He said improvements at a range of local schools, will lead to modern facilities and more subjects being available to Tweed students.
principals sitting in one room saying ‘this is the best thing ever,’ and the teachers, I listen.”
Geoff Provest also noted his environmental record including creating a koala holding facility (for vaccination against deadly chlamydia) in Pottsville, a land handback at South Kingscliff, and ongoing works at Fingal Head with local Land Council as highlights.
“And there’s more to be done.” reminding voters to “just tick 1” and Homelessness, Rose Jackson was in Tweed Heads, placing $30m ‘on the table’ for a ‘Buildto-Rent’ program in the Northern Rivers region. accidental candidate with an intentional plan to champion the core values and policies of The Greens in the Tweed.
Being right on Queensland’s doorstep, the Tweed MP also wants to expand its popular light rail network south across the border to the bus terminal at Tweed City Shopping Centre, particularly ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“You know where your vote’s going,” The Nationals Geoff Provest, Tweed MP said.
“We’re going to identify government land, if there’s not adequate government land, we’re willing to talk to private landowners, we’re willing to talk to Council, we’re going to build affordable rentals,” she said.
“I think where we’re at, in terms of climate and inequality in Australia, I just felt like I had to run,” Ciara Denham said.
Incumbent Nationals
MP Geoff Provest is hoping his track record of ‘getting things
“I’ve always prided myself in this role that I talk to the people who are actually doing it, so when you get all the
Now running for a historic fifth term in office, Geoff Provest will be ‘floating around’ all the polling booths from Banora Point to Pottsville this Saturday,
The Australian Labor Party’s Craig Elliot is standing for the Tweed’s public servants, specifically to lifting the NSW public sector wage cap, and to create permanency for casual workers.
“Over a decade of public sector wages being capped, these are our nurses, our teachers, our police, our youth workers, our firies (firefighters) everyone is being unfairly kept back on their wages.
“And we’re living right here on the border and if we’re not careful, we can build as many buildings as you want but unless you pay people fairly, we will lose them to Queensland,” Craig Elliot, ALP candidate for Tweed said.
Craig Elliot believes under a Minns Labor Government, public servants can bargain for a fair wage “like you used to.”
On the same day The Northern Rivers Times caught up with Craig Elliot, the Shadow Minister for Housing
ALP candidate Craig Elliot said he would also purse greater certainty for people still displaced from the horror 2022 floods.
“Not knowing if their house will be bought back, or chosen by this government if they might get help? There’s so much indecision and unknown for these people, 12-months afterwards, how is this fair?”
“My message to people is, if you want a Labor government you’ve got to vote for a Labor candidate so we can start addressing the shortcomings of this old, tired government,”
Craig Elliot, Tweed ALP candidate said.
She told The Northern Rivers Times there’s change in the air and people are vocal; about improving the public sector; the cost of living crisis; the climate crisis; and housing affordability - the party pledging rent freezes and an end to unfair evictions.
“It’s a basic, fundamental human right to have a home. In this competitive market, because people are going in and offering hundreds more, it’s so wrong.”
Ciara Denham, The Greens Tweed candidate said.
The Greens will also push to mandate a 30-percent allocation in any big housing development like Kings Forrest, west of Casuarina, be for affordable housing. And on the party’s signature environmental front, to get tough on koala care and protecting the Tweed’s ancient and prized hinterland forests.
“To stop native forest logging on public land – of course that should happen – and make it a lot harder on private land,” Ciara Denham, Greens candidate said.
“And the Tweed, it’s this little nugget of an area that has incredible natural places and hasn’t