Far West to meet locals

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LOUISE BURGE IN FAR WEST TO MEET LOCALS
( See our News Section for campain dates)

The independent candidate for Farrer, Louise Burge, will be in the Far West towns of Pooncarie, Menindee, Broken Hill and Ivanhoe between Thursday August 5 and Saturday, August 7 to speak to locals prior to the August 21 election.

Mrs Burge, a farmer from Deniliquin with extensive agri-political experience will be talking to locals about individual issues affecting the region as she tours the electorate.

“We need to make sure the issues in the Far West like health and communications are heard in Canberra, it may be an isolated area which means it needs to be at the forefront of communication technology investment,” she said.

The Far West region is a major part of Mrs Burge’s campaign tour, which is taking her the length and breadth of the almost 250,000 square kilometre electorate.

Mrs Burge said she was keen to speak to locals about other grass roots issues in the Western Division towns but said her key platform was to make the seat more prominent in policy decision making in Canberra.

“We need to make sure Farrer has a future,” Mrs Burge said.

“We need strong regional and remote communities and we cannot have that unless services are provided to the region in the form of communication technology investment and infrastructure funds.

“We need to get a better deal for health services across the electorate; but more so in the Western Division where getting to metropolitan centres is a big ask; and a better share of infrastructure funding to service the enormous network of roads and bridges,” she said.

Mrs Burge said any policies developed in Canberra by a Federal Government needed to include innovative and community driven environmental policies.

“No where is that more important that in the vast areas of the Western Division, where local management of the environment is crucial, particularly with the development of management policies.

“And we need to have secure food production for Australia as a whole, and that means giving a secure future to food production in regional areas,” she said.

Mrs Burge will be in Pooncarie and Menindee on the morning of Thursday, August 5, and in Broken Hill that afternoon.

She will spend the day in Broken Hill on Friday, August 6, and the morning of Saturday August 7, before traveling to Ivanhoe, to meet with locals there on the afternoon of Saturday, August 7.

For more information about specific times and places,
please contact Louise Burge on:
0428 984 570 or email vote1@louiseburge.com.au