Candidates for the
seat of Bellarine in the forthcoming state election faced questions from
The Drysdale, Clifton Springs and Curlewis Community
Association (DCSCA) organised and ran the Forum at SpringDale Neighbourhood
Centre, 17 - 21 High Street, Drysdale.
Four candidates accepted DCSCA’s invitation to attend: Naomi Adam (Animal Justice Party); Brian
McKiterick (Liberal Party); Lisa Neville MP (Labour Party); and Rachel Semmens
(Greens).
(Gayle
Tierney, member for Western Victoria in Victoria’s upper house, stood in for
Lisa Neville who - as Minister for Police - was in Melbourne dealing with a
terrorist incident there the previous day.)
From local roads to One Belt, One Road!
Each
candidate was given 5 minutes to argue why they should be elected to the seat;
each then answered three questions that DCSCA had sent to them beforehand; then
audience members were invited to ask their questions.
A wide
range of topics was addressed. Some were explicitly about the north Bellarine: a
new swimming pool, an offshore sculpture/reef, traffic management and a
long-term plan for the area to address what most speakers argued is its
over-development.
Other
topics were of broader interest: the future of the TAFE system; crime,
punishment an prevention; and the Memorandum of Understanding signed recently
by the Victoria state government and the Chinese government concerning the
latter’s “One Belt, One Road” policy. The event finished at 11.30am.
The Drysdale Forum was the third of four such events being
run across the Bellarine Peninsula by the Combined Bellarine Community
Associations (CBCA), of which DCSCA is a member.
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