NSW Labor leader Luke Foley says Sally Quinnell, Labor’s candidate for Camden in the 2019 election, will be a staunch advocate for South West Sydney.
An Ellis Lane resident, Ms Quinnell and her husband Damien are raising their three children locally and are heavily involved in school and sporting communities.
“Western Sydney has been nothing but an afterthought for this Liberal State Government,’’ Mr Foley said.
“Sally Quinnell will make sure that the issues that are first and foremost on the minds of Camden residents will get a hearing in Macquarie Street.’’
Ms Quinnell is a teacher and small business owner with strong ties to the Camden community.
She ran second on Camden Labor’s first ever Camden Council South Ward ticket a little over 12 months ago, which was instrumental in Labor’s outpolling of the Liberals in their traditional stronghold.
“I’m honoured to be selected as Labor’s candidate for Camden at the 2019 state election,’’ Ms Quinnell said after she was endorsed as the Labor candidate for the seat of Camden.
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“Labor will fight for more funding for our schools and TAFE and put a stop to the increasing cost of living pressures we’ve seen under the Berejiklian Government.”
Labor says that if elected, Ms Quinnell will join other South West Sydney MPs in NSW Parliament on Macquarie Street who represent their constituent’s interests in the face of an increasingly hostile Liberal-National Government.
One of them is Campbelltown MP and former Camden councillor Greg Warren.
“Residents in Sydney’s South West are feeling the cost of living pressures with unfair and unaffordable tolls, higher train fares and rising electricity prices – it’s time to send a strong message to Premier Berejiklian that they have had enough,’’ Mr Warren said.
“If elected, Sally Quinnell will be a strong voice for Camden in Macquarie Street.”
♦ The next NSW state election is due to be held on the last Saturday of March 2019.
It is good that the ALP has been smart enough to select a woman and even better,a teacher, to bring the interests of Camden to Macquarie Stas was the case in 1895 when my great,great grandfather Charlie Bull was elected as the Member for Camden. The biggest problem to solve the transport issue that is choking to new city,maybe the extension of the rail from Leppington