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Wednesday July 21, 2010
STAR OF THE NORTH
50 years of Falcon
The Legend Lives On
feature: Pages 15-18
Battle for Wakefield Champion and Strauss face up
! t a h t or f e ot School? we v n SCHOOL gets the popular vote for these youngsters, who started at Balaklava Primary when local schools resumed after holidays this week. Photographer Lisa Redpath found (from left) Tom Clark (reception), Ellie Bell (reception) and Lara Clark (year 2) enjoying the playground before classes and the incredible journey of learning began.
POLITICAL candidates for the local seat of Wakefield are shaping up less than a week into the 2010 Federal election campaign. Australians will go to the polls on Saturday, August 21 – with sitting MP, Labor’s Nick Champion telling the Plains Producer there were “clear differences” between the two political parties. “The choice for voters is clear. Julia Gillard is committed to moving Australia forward, while (Opposition Leader) Tony Abbott will take us back to the days of cuts in health and education and back to the worst aspects of Work Choices,” Mr Champion said. Liberal Party candidate, Gawler councillor David Strauss, said Labor needed to stop wasting money. Mr Strauss said a health policy, with more funding provided to hospitals, particularly country hospitals, was important, along with improved regional roads. The election date sets a five-week campaign battle between a Prime Minister who has been in the hot seat for three weeks and
Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, shown to be lagging in the polls. Labor MP Nick Champion, took Wakefield from the Liberal party at the 2007 election, defeating David Fawcett, who in this election contests the Senate. Mr Champion’s vote, buoyed by the “Ruddslide” of 2007, turned the marginal seat into a fairly safe Labor seat with a buffer of 6.28 per cent on first preferences. A mix of urban and rural voters, Wakefield covers an area of about 6,155 squ. km, from the northern suburbs of Adelaide to Clare. The towns of Virginia, Gawler, Port Wakefield (part), Balaklava, Kapunda, Riverton, Mallala, Freeling and Tarlee are included. The main suburbs include Elizabeth, Salisbury, Craigmore and Munno Para. Grey, which takes in areas of rural land north of Balaklava and includes the towns of Snowtown, Lochiel, Brinkworth and Blyth, should see the sitting member for the Liberal Party, Rowan Ramsey, hold the the huge rural seat – despite a reduced majority at the last election.
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