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Morwell and Wonthaggi players rise high in this marking contest during Saturday’s Gippsland League clash.The Power won the match by 62 points.
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ELECTRIC BLUE THE state government is asking an electric vehicle manufacturer if it plans to follow-through on an agreement to build a factory in Morwell. It comes as Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien quizzed Regional Development Minister Mary-Anne Thomas on the progress of the stalled project in a Budget hearing last week.
Mr O’Brien was asking how much taxpayer funding had been provided to manufacturer SEA Electric to set up in the Latrobe Valley, and if the state government had asked for any of this money back. “The government needs to be more transparent and tell us what is happening. The state government made a payment to the company in 2019 but won’t say how much it was,” Mr O’Brien said.
“It is also unclear how much of this was paid back, or if the company was asked to pay anything back, but the government was citing commercial in confidence.” Premier Daniel Andrews visited Morwell in October 2018 to announce a commercial agreement with SEA Electric to build a factory delivering 500 jobs, scheduled to be up-and-running by the end of 2019. It is understood SEA Electric was to be
a lead tenant at the planned Gippsland Logistics Precinct, but it remains unclear if the project is dead in the water. The state government admitted last year that subsidies were provided for four Latrobe Valley employees to travel to work at the company’s Dandenong plant – but these payments have ceased. Continued on page 3
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