A FULL house attended the campaign launch of Labor Candidate for Flinders Sarah Race at the Hastings Bowling Club on Sunday.
Race was officially introduced by Assistant Minister for Women, Ageing, and Social Security, Kate Thwaites MP, as Labor mounts its biggest-ever campaign for the seat of Flinders. Thwaites fired up the crowd, describing how Labor has supported working families and highlighted how a re-elected Labor government would continue to Build Australia’s Future. Thwaites spoke of the investments Labor is making for local families, including in Child Care, Aged Care, and Medicare – reforms that are making it easier for families to work, look after their loved ones, and get care when they are unwell.
Race spoke of her commitment to getting ’Better for our Peninsula’, including making life easier and more affordable for locals – citing the examples of the Three Day Child Care Guarantee, free GP visits, fully funded public schools, real climate action, and the investment she has already helped to attract in local infrastructure like the recently announced Women’s Community Shelter.
As part of her pitch for better representation for the Peninsula, Race announced that a re-elected Albanese Labor government will open a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Somerville, so that locals can get the free urgent care they need, fully bulk billed, without waiting hours in a busy hospital emergency department. If Labor is re-elected, the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Somerville will begin operating in the 2025-26 financial year, providing bulk billed care for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions, seven days a week, for extended hours, and with no appointment needed.
“Locally the coalition has taken our area for granted for 40 years. At this election our Peninsula faces a choice – better local representation and keep building Australia’s future with Labor, or be worse off under Peter Dutton. “ Race said.
First published in the Mornington News – 4 February 2025
