Lancaster meets “rusted on” Greens
The Greens candidate for McMillan Donna Lancaster officially got her election campaign underway with a launch at Inverloch.
Joined for the event by Eastern Metro Member of State parliament Samantha Dunn and the candidate for Flinders and State convener of The Greens Willisa Hogarth, Ms Lancaster said the party was offering a “positive alternative” for McMillan voters.
She said the tide has turned as many saw The Greens as the “party with a vision for the future”.
I am meeting people that have voted Green at several elections and now consider themselves “rusted on” voters for the party, Ms Lancaster said.
She said the question raised time and again with her in conversations with voters over many months has been “why have all our services been cut?”.
“Why are the hospitals not being funded, schools not receiving Gonski funding and how are jobs going to be created?”
Ms Lancaster said people feel McMillan has been “too safe for too long” (Liberal Russell Broadbent has held it from 1996-98 and continuously since 2004).
She said she had first hand experience of the challenges many young people in the electorate faced in their quests for education and jobs, having had to move out of the area aged 18 before returning permanently last year.
The Greens have a range of outstanding policies for rural people including sustainable agriculture, health funding and Renew Australia, a jobs development program with the transition from coal reliance to renewable energies and mine rehabilitation, stated.
Ms Dunn said Greens’ MPs were a voice in parliament for action of climate change, a shift to a “new economy” based on renewable energy and protection of the environment. Mr Lancaster