Moama and Barham

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LOUISE BURGE IN MOAMA AND BARHAM TO MEET LOCALS


The independent candidate for Farrer, Louise Burge, will be in Moama and Barham on Tuesday, August 3, 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 issues such as how communities are coping after the devastation of the timber industry are heard in Canberra, and to make sure infrastructure funding for cross-border bridges makes its way to this region,” she said.

The Murray Valley 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 both Murray River 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 communities and we have to make sure Moama and Barham are not forgotten when national decisions are made, so they do not bear the brunt of the ramifications.

“We need to get a better deal for health services across the electorate, and a better share of infrastructure funding to make sure the bridges in this electorate are properly funded and improved,” she said.

Mrs Burge said any policies developed in Canberra by a Federal Government needed to include innovative and community driven environmental 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 said growing regional and remote communities also needed to have reliable and up to date technology to serve their development and future.

Mrs Burge will be in Moama on the morning of Tuesday, August 3, and Barham in the afternoon.