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SPECIAL INVITATION: Natimuk United Auskicker Archie Stockdale is set to meet his Essendon Football Club heroes after declaring his love for the side during an interview with sports commentator Hamish McLachlan at Marvel Stadium. Archie’s ‘Auskicker of the Week’ interview has more than one-million views on TikTok. Essendon Football Club has since reached out and invited Archie to meet the team. Archie’s mum, Shelly Stockdale, said the family was very proud of Archie, who is football and Essendon mad and always checks up on AFL games when he is not kicking the football himself. Archie, centre, is pictured with friends Deagan, left, and Slater Perkin. Story, page 66. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER
Taking up fight
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BY MICHAEL SCALZO
or the first time in nearly a decade, people in northwestern Victoria will have their federal member represent them from opposition.
NATIONAL RECONCILLIATION WEEK 2022 27 MAY - 3 JUNE
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Voters in the federal seat of Mallee re-endorsed their Nationals candidate with an increased two-candidate preferred margin on Saturday despite the change of Federal Government. However, Member for Mallee Anne Webster has reaffirmed her commitment to regional Australia and emphasised a priority in ‘taking up a fight’ against ‘urban idealogues’.
Dr Webster said the election of independent candidates in metropolitan seats during Saturday’s Federal Election was proof a ‘divide’ between urban and rural voters had increased. “People in the cities do not produce. In regional centres, we are about production, and that keeps the whole country ticking over and is the reason there is food on inner-city tables. They need to remember that,” she said. “Their policies cannot dictate how business is done in the regions.” Dr Webster said Labor ‘now held all the cards’ and a ‘Labor, teal, Greens alliance was not good for
regional Australia. “The saying is we need to hold their feet to the fire and make it about what’s best for regional Australia,” she said. Dr Webster polled just shy of 50 percent of primary votes in Mallee on Saturday, while Labor Party candidate Carole Hart polled 16.2 percent. Independent candidate Sophie Baldwin polled 10 percent of primary votes and United Australia Party candidate Stuart King followed with 9.6 percent. Dr Webster, who said she did not accept the ‘independence’ of notable successful candidates across Australia, was confident a similar independ-
ent rebellion in the region was not in Mallee voters’ interests. “The reality is independents have very little say, and I know a party remains the strongest structure to engage and ensure democratic outcomes. I do not want to see an independent here who is not honest or not able to be critiqued by a party, where they can simply be a law unto themselves,” she said. However, she did concede that a national swing towards progressive independents was because many people had ‘lost trust’ in political parties. Continued page 3
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