Nikki Todd
A MEET-the-candidates forum will be held at Banora Point Community Centre on August 26 from 7-10pm. The non-partisan forum is being hosted by the Banora Point and District Residents’ Association. Phone Pat Tate on 07 5524 2957.
PALMER United Party candidate Dr Phil Allen has been churning out the policies on behalf of his party’s leader, billionaire Clive Palmer.
Top of the list is a pledge by the party to increase pensioner allowances by $150 a fortnight should it win government on September 7.
Dr Allen, a surgeon who lives at Fingal Head, has also committed to spend $1.5 billion on health services in the Gold Coast region, including $50 million for the Gold Coast Hospital.
Such investment should help ease the burden on the Tweed Hospital, which services a substantial number of southern Gold Coast residents.
SITTING Labor MP Justine Elliot, who holds the seat of Richmond with a seven per cent margin, is splashing the cash around in the lead up to the 7 September poll.
Ms Elliot announced funding for a new car for the PCYC at Tweed Heads this week, hot on the heels of a $3765 grant for the Tweed River War Widows Association to help with the purchase of computers and newsletter materials.
She also recently announced a $613,000 injection into a Tweed Shire Council project to revitalise the Tweed CBD.
NOT to be outdone by their Labor counterparts, the Nationals have also been splashing promises of cash around the Richmond electorate.
Last week saw a flurry of activity in the region, with Nationals leader Warren Truss committing $185,000 to Murwillumbah Football Club should the Coalition take government.
Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop, shadow minister for seniors, also flew in to lend her support to Nationals’ candidate Matthew Fraser.
