COALITION RELEASES PLAN TO REDUCE DROWNINGS

A Coalition government will work with local lifesaving clubs, the Royal Life Saving Society and AUSTSWIM to reduce the number of drownings across Australia. This announcement is particularly important to the Flinders electorate, which is surrounded by water. Every family living in the electorate is no more than a few kilometres from the coast. The…

COALITION PROMISE TO ALL LOCAL SCHOOLS: WE WILL MATCH FUNDING

A Coalition government will provide all local schools with funding certainty and honour all commitments for the next four years. There are more than 50 schools in the Flinders electorate, ranging from Sorrento Primary on the southern Mornington Peninsula to Cowes Primary on Phillip Island. All of the electorate’s schools will have the certainty of…

ELECTION OFFERS CLEAR CHOICE FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS

This election is a clear choice between more of the same from Labor and real change from the Coalition. Locally it is about protecting the environment, tackling cost of living pressures, supporting jobs and helping families and small businesses prosper. My first responsibility is to fight for better local facilities and a better quality of…

Vale Alan Hunt. 9 October 1927 – 19 July 2013

Overnight my father Alan Hunt passed away. He was 85. In his words, he had had a wonderful life. He was the father of five sons, Bob, John, Peter, Steve and Greg. He was the grandfather to ten grandchildren, Josephine, Selwyn, Mia, Alan, Anne, Henry, Sam, Abby, Poppy and James. He was the brother of…

Youth Mental Health Forum with Professor Patrick McGorry

  I am delighted that former Australian of the Year and leading youth mental health advocate Professor Patrick McGorry will join me in convening a Youth Mental Health Forum at Dromana.   Depression, anxiety and other mental health problems are among the biggest issues facing our young people today and I am keen to work…