As the last week of the campaign gets under way, a new analysis of Western and South Western Sydney voting behaviours reveals the two metropolitan regions could hold the key to the result of Saturday’s federal election. Based at Western Sydney University, the regional thinktank, Centre for Western Sydney, has assessed federal election voting patterns… Read more »
Growing up in Nepal, Binod Paudel once got up to base camp of Mt Everest. He remembers it well: “It’s pretty exciting, you feel the real freshness of the air up there,’’ he recalls of the day he was more than 5,000 metres up on the world’s most famous mountain. However, the Liberal Party candidate… Read more »
Voters in Macarthur are anxious about the economy and cost of living pressures, says Labor candidate Dr Mike Freelander. Taking a 10 minute break from handing how to vote leaflets to voters at the Ingleburn pre-poll on Wednesday, Dr Freelander told the South West Voice in Macarthur he was getting a very different feedback compared… Read more »
Getting about is a bit of a nightmare for some Austral and Middleton Grange residents. That’s because there is only one road in and out of their neighbourhood, while Cowpasture Road provides the only opportunity to cross the M7 and head north. And with the population continuing to grow, congestion is only going to get… Read more »
An Albanese Government would invest $4 million to establish a child development unit at Campbelltown Hospital. Linda Burney, Labor’s shadow minister for families and social services, made the commitment announcement at Manooka Valley community preschool in Currans Hill. Ms Burney was accompanied by the local federal member for Macarthur, Dr Mike Freelander. “This is a… Read more »
Dr Mike Freelander, the current federal member for Macarthur, has announced that a Federal Labor Government would extend health and wellbeing support for nurses across the country. He says the new national nurse and midwife health service would provide nurses and midwives with a range of personalised and professional support services to help them manage… Read more »
Anne Stanley, the federal member for Werriwa, says that when constituents seek her help they’re usually going through a tough patch. “People that come to us do so on the worst day of their lives,’’ she tells the South West Voice during an interview at Casula Mall earlier this week to discuss her re-election campaign…. Read more »
With both Easter and Anzac Day done and dusted, the focus returns to the May 21 federal election. Tonight the candidates for the grand old seat of Werriwa head to the Hoxton Park Anglican Church, which is hosting an election forum. Labor’s Anne Stanley, who was elected to Werriwa in 2016 and was re-elected at… Read more »
Headspace would be established in Edmondson Park by an Albanese Labor Government, says Anne Stanley, the federal member for Werriwa. It would mean young people in Edmondson Park and surrounds will finally have a headspace delivering early intervention mental health services close to where they live. “We know that young people have been acutely affected… Read more »
