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Rail outcome a An “Insight” into Shepparton ‘band-aid fix’ Is the country being misinformed about our city? By David Lee MORE than 120 locals braved the early hours of the morning last week to travel to Melbourne by train to demonstrate Shepparton’s need for an adequate rail service to parliament as part of the All Aboard Shepparton campaign, but is the immediate outcome just another temporary band-aid fix? While the Minister for Public Transport, Jacinta Allan confirmed that Shepparton wou ld have a se at i n a Reg iona l Transport Advisory Group that might see Sheppar ton’s rail i mprovement plan included in next year’s budget, Independent Member for Shepparton, Suzanna Sheed says she will keep up the pressure and continue to lobby for an outcome for Shepparton. Continued on page 21
THE TRUE INSIGHT… Host of SBS’s Insight program, Jenny Brockie was in Shepparton recently to film Shepparton’s appearance on the program, which focused on the township’s issues with drugs and unemployment, but did the television show and some locals in its forum paint an inaccurate picture of the town? Photo: Supplied.
By David Lee THERE has been a lot of talk over the past week on the appearance of Shepparton on the SBS Insight program, but was the program and some locals in the forum, at times, too harsh with their comments; com ments that are in fact based on inaccurate statistics and misinformation, and was Shepparton once again painted in a negative light? In the opening minutes of the program, some interesting points were made including
the youth unemployment rate in Shepparton being recorded as 19.3 percent, which was followed by statements from the forum’s attendees, made up of locals, that “there are just no jobs going here at the moment,” and that “the sense of opportunity in employment has changed.” There are in fact an abundance of jobs available right across the region and more being created almost monthly, with businesses expanding or opening their doors in Shepparton for the first time such
as Pactum Dairy, which has seen 60 jobs created in the last 24 months, Super Amart opening recently and creating 18 jobs, the impending opening of Fun City, which has seen the creation of 66 jobs, the expansion of Harvey Norman, which saw an extra 4 jobs created at its new site, the opening of Go Jump, which created an extra 80 jobs as well as the expansion of the Dhurringile Prison, which saw an extra 29 jobs created, just to name a few. Continued on page 14