Federal shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has categorically ruled a move to a new seat if a proposed redistribution dramatically changes his seat of Hume later this year.
However, Mr Taylor admitted that the prospect of losing the Goulburn area was “gut wrenching’’.
At a media doorstop last week, a journalist asked the Member for Hume: Mr Taylor last week’s redistribution dramatically reduces your boundaries for your electorate of Hume including taking our Goulburn. What does that mean for your thinking ahead of the next election? Will you be contesting Hume again? Will you be looking to represent a different seat in the future?
“I’m planning to represent Hume,’’ Mr Taylor responded.
“There’s some wonderful new areas coming into the electorate.
“It’s a bigger change in terms of geography than population, but wonderful new areas around the Camden local government area, like Oran Park and Harrington Park, that I’ve spent a lot of time in representing my electorate now.
“And I look forward to representing them and having that opportunity in the future.
“Obviously, losing Goulburn, it’s tough. It’s gut wrenching for me. I lost a significant part of my electorate in the 2016 redistribution as well,’’ Mr Taylor said
“And it’s never easy when you make connections, deep connections with communities as I have in Goulburn.
“And that is the nature of these redistributions and I don’t think any of us revel in that outcome.
“It’s not something that I love, obviously.
“But I represent Hume and I plan to continue to represent Hume,’’ he said.
The Australian Electoral Commission will make the final call on this redistribution in October-November.
