WITH less than three weeks until the Victorian state election, nominations have closed for candidates planning to contest the poll. At the time of printing, nine candidate nominations for the seat of Nepean had been posted onto the Victorian Electoral Commission’s website: Kim Robbins (Independent), Joseph Toscano (Independent), Sianan Healy (Greens), Seth Willcocks (Victorian Socialists), Surbhi Snowball (Labor), Anthony Marsh (Liberal), Darren Hercus (One Nation), Mike Brown (Family First), and Tamara Champion (Animal Justice Party). Three of the candidates (Marsh, Healy and Hercus) contested the by-election in May that saw Marsh win with a margin of around 13 per cent.…
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THE Labor Party’s candidate for Nepean has been announced. Surbhi Snowball is no stranger to political campaigns, having contested Flinders for Labor in 2022. She is now entering the challenging contest for Nepean; a seat just six months out from a by-election where her party did not field a candidate. “I am running because I feel that our community needs a good representative,” said Snowball. Snowball currently works in finance after re-entering the workforce after raising two children. Born in Mauritius, Snowball came to Australia in 2000, “fell in love, got married” and has called Melbourne home ever since. She…
MEMBER for Nepean, Anthony Marsh, has reaffirmed the Liberal Party’s $340m commitment to completely rebuild Rosebud Hospital, doubling bed capacity, delivering an expanded emergency department and “ensuring we keep it in public hands”. First announced during the May Nepean by-election, the commitment will see Rosebud Hospital transformed into a modern hospital, with construction to commence within the first term of a Wilson Liberal government. The announced redevelopment will include: The commitment follows years of community advocacy for improved healthcare facilities, with the Mornington Peninsula Shire identifying the redevelopment of Rosebud Hospital as one of its highest priorities (Shire ‘shouts out’…
THE state election race for Nepean has a new entrant, with Safety Beach resident Kim Robbins throwing her hat into the ring as an independent candidate. Robbins decision to run comes despite the organisation she is a member of, Independents for Mornington Peninsula, electing to concentrate their resources in the Mornington electorate, and not run a I4MP endorsed candidate in Nepean and Hastings. “I live in Nepean, I vote in Nepean, and Nepean is my focus. I’m a member of I4MP and strongly support the community independent movement,” said Robbins. “As it stands, I’m not an I4MP-endorsed candidate. With I4MP…
With only 100 days until the state election, things are off to a slow start in the three electorates on the Mornington Peninsula, with only a handful of candidates expressing their intention to challenge. In Nepean, incumbent Anthony Marsh heads into his second election campaign in six months with a handy 13.24% margin, after his by-election win in May. There will be at least one familiar face on the hustings, with his by-election opponent Darren Hercus contesting the seat again for One Nation. Hercus told The News “I am both honoured and humbled to have been re-endorsed by One Nation…
The voters of the Nepean electorate will head to the polls on 2 May to elect a replacement for retired MP Sam Groth. The date was announced yesterday (Tuesday 17 February) by Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Maree Edwards, and leaves candidates and voters a little over ten weeks of campaigning. Crucially, candidates will have only ten weeks run their campaign to be elected and only 23 days if they wait until the final nomination day for candidates on 10 April. Voters have even less time to update their enrollment, with the electoral roll closing on 20 March News from…
Independents for Mornington Peninsula have announced they are stepping up their search for a candidate for the state seat of Nepean, after the news of Sam Groth’s resignation and the forthcoming by-election. President of Independents for Mornington Peninsula, Phil Riley, told The News they had been searching for candidate for this year’s state election since November, but the by-election had created a “new urgency”. “The voters of Nepean will be forced to the polls twice in eight months,” said Riley. “Once again, voters of the Mornington Peninsula find themselves paying the price for Liberal Party incompetence. “This by-election isn’t about…
DEMOCRACY is alive on the Mornington Peninsula with 43 candidates vying for places in the shire’s six wards at this month’s election. It’s a far cry from the previous election in 2008 when six of 11 seats were uncontested, with five councillors returned unchallenged and one, this year’s mayor Cr Frank Martin, not even facing the voters. Cr Martin took over from the retiring David Jarman in Red Hill Ward and was not opposed. The 43-candidate list is vindication of the Victorian Electoral Commission’s decision to redraw the ward boundaries and create three multi-councillor wards from eight single-councillor wards on…