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HEALTHY COMPETITION: St Arnaud’s Barry Batters, left, encourages people casting their votes in Saturday’s federal election in Horsham to support Nationals’ Andrew Broad, while Bob Scates of Murtoa promotes vote cards for Labor candidate Lydia Senior. Picture: KELLY LAIRD
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ducation, health, communication, roads, community-service infrastructure, renewable energy, diversification, employment, investment, industry growth, farmland ownership and working towards being ‘marginal’.
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All are among a broad cache of election issues Mallee and Wannon candidates have listed as crucial for Saturday’s federal election. The Nationals’ Andrew Broad has held Mallee, a vast stretch of country from Mildura to Stawell, since 2013. Dan Tehan, representing the Liberal Party and with Veterans Affairs and Defence Materiel ministerial portfolios, has been the Member for Wannon, which embraces much of the Western District from Ararat to the south coast, since 2010. Both will be defending their seats against a mix of candidates from mainstream and minor parties. In Mallee, Mr Broad is against Labor’s Lydia Senior, The Greens’ Helen
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Healy, Citizens Electoral Council representative Chris Lahy and Rise Up Australia Party’s Tim Middleton. In Wannon, the challenge for Mr Tehan is from Labor’s David Barling, The Greens’ Thomas Campbell and Independent Michael McCluskey.
Andrew Broad
Mr Broad listed ‘talking up country communities’, ‘removing factors constraining growth’, and ‘diversifying the regional economy’ as key steps to establishing the Wimmera, Mallee and regional Australia in general as a land of opportunity. “We must improve our community infrastructure. It’s vital that our health services, schools and recreation facilities are first rate,” he said. “We must diversify. Our inland cities and regional towns are about more than the service and agriculture industries.”
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Chris Lahy
Citizen’s Electoral Council’s Chris Lahy is campaigning for a reversal of speculative free-market, economic rationalisation and deregulation and water-trade policies which he said had hurt farming communities. “Farmers today face ruin from bank debts, underpayment for product and lack of water to produce. Life for all Australians will not improve until these policies are reversed,” he said.
Helen Healy
The Greens’ Helen Healy said people wanted to see strong action on global warming, investment in clean energy, sensible water and land management and greater compassion for people seeking help. “Too often the Nationals vote with the Liberals and against the best interest of their regional electorates. We need to recognise that agriculture in Australia has the potential to grow substantially in the next 20 years,” she said.
Tim Middleton
Rise Up Australia representative Tim Middleton said his party’s election platform included promoting the role of parents, not governments, in teaching children about sexuality, keeping Australian farmland in Australian hands, making sure major-party policies came under appropriate scrutinisation and protecting farm management from idealistic but unworkable philosophies. Continued page 3
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Labor’s Lydia Senior, from Irymple, is again pushing the message ‘Make Mallee Marginal’ after capturing 17.5
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