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The Valley stopped for a minute’s silence at 11am on Thursday to commemorate Remembrance Day. Trafalgar Primary School captains Matilda Cane, Eli Smith, Jake Franke and Baxter Hankinson were on hand to lay a wreath at their town’s cenotaph.
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SEA YOU LATER By MICHELLE SLATER
THE plug has been pulled on a proposed electric vehicle factory in Morwell after it had been revealed that the company SEA Electric had terminated its agreement with the state government in October. The Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) told a Parliament Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PEAC) on November 9 that the agreement between the company and the state government was finished.
“The company has contacted us in October this year, just recently in this financial year, and has advised us they will seek to terminate the grant, and the government is considering that,” DJPR rural and regional Victoria deputy secretary Beth Jones said in the hearing. Premier Daniel Andrews had visited Morwell in 2018 to make a pre-election promise to deliver the factory in Morwell in a commercial agreement with SEA Electric that would provide 500 jobs. SEA Electric was to be a lead tenant at the
Gippsland Logistics Precinct on council-owned land behind Mid Valley to manufacture 2400 delivery vans and mini buses a year. Latrobe City Mayor Sharon Gibson said the state government should make good on its promise for 500 jobs in the Latrobe Valley. “We are sadly let down. Don’t tell me, show me,” Cr Gibson said. “If this is a promise you made, then find another lead tenant for this project. It’s long-term sustainable jobs we are after.
“If you make a promise, then come good on it, otherwise don’t get people’s hopes up.” Nationals Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien said he was “not surprised” by the outcome as the project had been “in trouble for some time” after he had raised the issue in the PEAC hearing. “It’s incumbent on Daniel Andrews and Labor to explain what went wrong and to explain why it hasn’t gone ahead,” Mr O’Brien said. Continued on page 7
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