McCormack retains Riverina seat
Member for Riverina Michael McCormack has retained his seat with an easy win over his fellow candidates in the 2025 Federal Election over the weekend.
Mr McCormack had a 3.3 percent swing in his favour winning the two candidate preferred vote 63.01 percent to the Labor candidate Mark Je eries 36.99 percent.
Mr McCormack won by a margin of 25,131 votes with a total vote count of 60,846 an increase on the previous election where he had received 59.17 percent of the vote over the Labor candidate’s 40.29 percent of the vote.
There was a 6.52 percent swing from Labor to Mr McCormack in rst preference votes with the current member securing a total of 39,618 rst preference votes compared to Mr Je reson with 17,506, Mark Craig from One Nation with 9,430, Independent Jenny Rolfe with 6,429, Independent James Gooden with 4,872, Pheonix Valxori for The Greens with 4,050,
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Desiree Gregory with 3,710, Richard Foley for the Citizen’s Party with 2,208, Libertarian Christine Onley with 2,039, Marg Burge for Family First with 1,946, Hilltops Councillor running as an Independent, Jake Davis with 1,712, Independent Grant Hardwick with 1,706 and Independent Barbara Baikie with 1,614.
“Humbled to receive support from the Riverina electorate voters to continue to represent their interests in the Federal Parliament – an honour I have never taken for granted,” Mr McCormack said.
“I am truly grateful for the support.
“Thank you to all of the volunteers who wore yellow shirts and spent time at polling booths on election day and on pre-poll letting people know the National Party of Australia ghts and delivers for the regions.
“Your e orts are very much appreciated.”
Heather top in state in Grain Young Judges comp
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In the NSW Grain Young Judges competition, competitors are judged on a few di erent components including how well they handle the grain samples, how well they place the samples in comparison to the judges’ placings, how accurately they speak on the samples and how well the competitors present themselves when speaking.
Heather said a big point in the speaking component is how well they articulate why they placed the grains in the positions they did.
“They’re looking at how well you use the terminology [and] your understanding of what you’re looking at,” she said.
Heather said they have to explain the reasons for their placings, whether they are similar to the judges or di erent.
While not competing in the Grain Young Judging competition while at school, Heather said she gained some experience in the competition and industry in agriculture class
at school, and jumped on board with workshops a er school and speaking with industry leaders.
Since leaving school, Heather said she also watched others in competitions, and gained feedback from the judges when she was involved in other competitions.
“You’ve got to be open minded, you can’t go there and think ‘I’m going to take out rst place’, and ‘the way I see something is the only way’.”
“You’ve got to be open to other people’s opinions and learn from it,” Heather said.
Heather also claimed third place in the
NSW Beef Cattle Young Judges competition and said she had never made it that far before.
She described reaching that level as being one of the most exciting aspects of the Show for her.
“Sometimes when you compete you are against people who have been doing it for a few years, and being my rst time I think it’s something quite positive to take from that experience,” she said.
Working at Forbes Livestock Agency, Heather said she has gotten rst hand experience hearing from buyers and agents and what they are looking for.
“It’s good to work in the industry because you’re learning things every day, you pick up new things along the way through your job,” she said.
With the competition being open to people aged up to 25, Heather encourages those coming into it in their twenties to give it a shot and keep trying.
Member for Riverina Michael McCormack celebrating his win on Saturday night.
PHOTO: Michael McCormack MP.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
1 Name an ancient Chinese martial art (4,2)
8 Which WWI Russian general was known as the Grand Duke (8)
9 What are central parts of things (6)
10 Which nobleman is next below an earl (8)
11 Name a popular card game (6)
13 To be cowardly, is to be what (8)
16 Which horse won the 2001 Melbourne Cup (8)
19 What is a female monster (6)
22 Which person stirs up others (8)
24 Who used wings made of wax and feathers and flew too close to the sun which melted his wings and he drowned in the Aegean (6)
25 Which sideline sports officials assist the referees (8)
26 To regard highly, is to do what (6)
DOWN
2 Ayers Rock was the former name of which NT monolith (5)
3 What is a deep, narrow ravine (US) (5)
4 Name another term for the cosmos (8)
6 Which dog is the prairie wolf (6)
7 What is a powerful automatic gun for firing explosive shells (6)
12 Name an Australian Wimbledon singles champion 1987, Pat ... (4)
14 Name a greenish-yellow gaseous element, symbol Cl (8)
17 Which river flows from SE Turkey and empties into the Persian Gulf (6)
18 Name a dish served at dinner before the main course (6)
20 To respond to a stimulus in a particular manner, is to do what (5)
21 To pan fry, is to do what (5)
Find the following words in the grid. They may be read in any direction, even diagonally. Some letters are used more than once.
WHICH WORDS
1 FUSTIAN (a) Bombastic (b) Wanting in freshness (c) Brown
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5 Name the fifth book of the New Testament, The ... (4)
15 Who was the fourth wife of Henry VIII, ... of Cleves (4)
Letters have a number value
Some values are in the right hand cells. Create
E-QUATIONS
using clues in centre cells.
Letters A to Z have a number value. Some are shown in the right-hand cells. Create remaining values using clues in centre cells.
23 What is a ponderous volume (4)
2 LIMBO (a) The forepart of a gun carriage (b) Botulism in birds (c) An uncertain or intermediate state
BIYWORD
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CLUES:
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Elicit (5)
Extracts venom (5)
Florentine iris (5)
Gulp down (7)
Horse-racing distance (7)
Indebted (3)
Sm. Printers’ measures (3)
State-owned enterprise (3) With (latin) (3)
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