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By Catherine Watson
INCUMBENT Liberal MP Russell Broadbent is facing seven challengers from across the political spectrum in next month’s federal election.
Nominations for the seat were declared in Warragul at midday yesterday, and the ballot draw carried out immediately afterwards.
Inverloch's Mat Morgan (Greens) scored the coveted top position on the ballot paper, with Mr Broadbent second and Phillip Island's Deb Leonard (Independent ) third.
INCUMBENT Liberal MP Russell Broadbent is facing seven challengers from across the political spectrum in next month’s federal election.
Nominations for the seat were declared in Warragul at midday yesterday, and the ballot draw carried out immediately afterwards.
Inverloch's Mat Morgan (Greens) scored the coveted top position on the ballot paper, with Mr Broadbent second and Phillip Island's Deb Leonard (Independent ) third.
Mat Morgan
Greens
Russell Broadbent
Liberal Party
Deb Leonard
Independent
Allan Hicken, Pauline
Hanson’s One Nation
David Welsh, Australian
Federation Party
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Aged 71, and after 32 years in politics, Mr Broadbent was widely expected to call it a day and hand on one of the country’s safest Liberal seats to a younger successor. He surprised many when he announced he wanted another term.
He will be feeling comfortable that he can withstand anything less than a landslide against the current Liberal government.
He has held the seat (formerly McMillan) for 23 of the past 32 years. He won the 2018 election with a 46.3 per cent primary vote and 57.4 per cent on a two-party preferred basis. Fifty-one of the 66 Monash polling booths recorded a Liberal majority.
But there is just enough happening to suggest the Monash election could be more interesting than it looks on paper.
The great unknown is how much support the minor parties will attract in Monash. They include an intriguing mix: Pauline Hanson’s One National Party, Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (with its massive advertising budget), the Liberal Democratic Party and a newcomer, the Australian Federation Party.
There is also the presence of a credible Independent candidate with a lot of local support and a budget. Deb Leonard is part of the Voices for … political movement (not a party) that has attracted plenty of media attention for its challenge in supposedly safe Liberal seats.
The Monash electorate consists of Bass Coast, Baw Baw and South Gippsland shires, Moe-Newborough in the City of Latrobe, and very small parts of Cardinia and Yarra Ranges Shires.
A minor distribution of the electorate last year removed Koo Wee Rup and Lang Lang, making the seat slightly more marginal. Election guru Anthony Green estimates the majority drops to 6.9 per cent.
It remains to be seen how his public anti-vax stance will affect votes in an electorate that is 95 per cent vaccinated. While it will probably attract a proportion of new supporters, it may alienate other traditional Liberal supporters.
He will be feeling comfortable that he can withstand anything less than a landslide against the current Liberal government.
He has held the seat (formerly McMillan) for 23 of the past 32 years. He won the 2018 election with a 46.3 per cent primary vote and 57.4 per cent on a two-party preferred basis. Fifty-one of the 66 Monash polling booths recorded a Liberal majority.
But there is just enough happening to suggest the Monash election could be more interesting than it looks on paper.
The great unknown is how much support the minor parties will attract in Monash. They include an intriguing mix: Pauline Hanson’s One National Party, Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (with its massive advertising budget), the Liberal Democratic Party and a newcomer, the Australian Federation Party.
There is also the presence of a credible Independent candidate with a lot of local support and a budget. Deb Leonard is part of the Voices for … political movement (not a party) that has attracted plenty of media attention for its challenge in supposedly safe Liberal seats.
The Monash electorate consists of Bass Coast, Baw Baw and South Gippsland shires, Moe-Newborough in the City of Latrobe, and very small parts of Cardinia and Yarra Ranges Shires.
A minor distribution of the electorate last year removed Koo Wee Rup and Lang Lang, making the seat slightly more marginal. Election guru Anthony Green estimates the majority drops to 6.9 per cent.
It remains to be seen how his public anti-vax stance will affect votes in an electorate that is 95 per cent vaccinated. While it will probably attract a proportion of new supporters, it may alienate other traditional Liberal supporters.
What matters most to you
The next edition of the Bass Coast Post on May 6 will include our federal election coverage with profiles of all candidates standing in the Monash electorate.
We want to know what issues matter most to Post readers so we can quiz the candidates on their policies and priorities.
The next edition of the Bass Coast Post on May 6 will include our federal election coverage with profiles of all candidates standing in the Monash electorate.
We want to know what issues matter most to Post readers so we can quiz the candidates on their policies and priorities.
- What are the three most important issues to you in the federal election?
- How do you usually vote?
- How do you intend to vote this time?
- Why?
Jessica O’Donnell
Labor Party
Meg Edwards,
Liberal Democrats
Christine McShane
United Australia Party
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I want to know what the Independent Deb Leonard will preference her votes to on her voting card?
Who will support getting welfare recipients at or above the Hendersons poverty line of $88 per day not $46?
Who will also support an increase in rent assistance for those struggling to meet the high rises of rent we have seen in the last 2 years?
As farmers suffer more crop failure and livestock death, mostly rain, too little or too much, at the wrong time, quitting with fire sale proceeds. LibNuts might say they’re big on border security but never a mention any alliance for food security. Australia is a net importer of food already. And imports can fail too.
Recent Economic Complexity ranking of countries by Harvard shows us 83rd, slightly more capable than Cambodia but beaten by Albania. How good is that?
Steady decline, as Frydenberg tells ever more porkies. Are they to or from Murdoch media, uncritical reporting?
Federal ICAC ASAP, then War on Emissions,
BERNIE
Income?
In order to provide a Universal Basic Income there needs to be an increase in taxes. Taxes in Australia are too low to provide the social security benefits our country needs. What are the candidates views on lifting taxes in Australia?
What are the candidates views on introducing negative income taxes in to Australia?
There needs to be a total redistribution of wealth in this country so that we can support the less fortunate.
The formerly safe LNP state seat of Bass was similarly ignored until our current, energetic representative Jordan Crugnale, won the seat for Labor at the last state election. While it remains a swinging seat, both major parties will fight hard to win Bass by wooing voters.
Hard fact: Safe seats are for losers!
Despite the pork-barreling and questionable rorting that Broadbents LNP government is notorious, not made one major pre-election investment announcement has been made for the seat of Monash. (Oddly though, Broadbent has declared that a ICAC investigation is not required).
Sadly Broadbent has blocked me along with quite a number of other constituents from his FB page. (I humbly apologise for publicly questioning his decision to take horse drugs in preference to his own governments vaccination mandate; but it didn’t stop him littering my letterbox with a deceptive mail voting application form).
Broadbent is known locally by some as the ‘Member for Dirt Roads’. (Similarly to George Christensen, a former LNP parliamentarian, who was internationally known, colloquially, as the ‘Member for Manila’).
Almost all selfies Broadbent posts (which would shame even the most ardent foreign tourist) have him posing on a dirt track. And, after the length of time he’s held the Federal seat of Monash, and all the ‘fix’ promises he’s made, there shouldn’t be any dirt tracks left for him to pork-barrel about!
Sadly, LNP’s ‘Minister for Dirt Roads’ has repeatedly
undelivered in his own almost impoverished seat of Monash.
Time for him to be retired from his safe LNP seat of Monash so that it becomes a swinging seat which both major parties need to fight for to win.
ANYBODY BUT BROADBENT FOR MONASH
Climate 200 is financed by Billionaire Simon Holmes a Court.
Deb Leonard is pushing Climate Action and renewables.
Simon Holmes a Court has huge investments in renewable energy.
Simon wants to get more wealthy
What are the three most important issues to you in the federal election?
1. Climate action and renewable energy
2. Federal ICAC to keep politicians honest
3. Lowering house prices / stop negative gearing
How do you usually vote?
Greens or Labor
How do you intend to vote this time?
Why?
Independent because we have a really strong independent candidate and we need more women in parliament
Wonthaggi Neighbourhood Centre at Mitchell House will be hosting a Meet the Candidates Forum at the Wonthaggi Baptist Church at 6.00 – 8.30 pm on Wednesday 4 May 2022.
Why are we running a candidates forum? We believe that:
• Strong democracy is important to social cohesion and to our community’s sense of belonging, participation and ownership.
• Not a single issue forum; all topics/issues/questions of concern to you, our community are welcome.
The forum will be chaired by Cr Clare Le Serve. Clare is a well-known and well-respected independent Councillor since 2012; not aligned with any political party or candidate; ran as independent in the 2014 and 2018 state election. Invitations to attend the forum have been sent to all candidates.
Everybody is welcome, RSVP to 5672 3731 or respond to the event post at: https://www.facebook.com/events/520562689650767
and a general comment of "leave transgender people alone we shouldn't be a deflective whipping post"