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ELECTION EDITION – SEE STORIES INSIDE A SURREAL VISION LOCAL artist Jennifer Gibney with her prize winning portrait of Colleen Reynolds. The portrait is a combination of oils on linen, which was then embroidered over. The impressive piece took out the top spot at the 2022 Arts Mansfield Three Faces competition on Friday. It will now be hung at the Mansfield Shire offices. Full story and all the winners in next week’s Mansfield Courier. PHOTO: Pam Zierk-Mahoney
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SIX of the 10 candidates running for the seat of Indi at the upcoming federal election attended a Q&A session in Mansfield last Wednesday night. Held at the Mansfield Hotel and hosted by the Mansfield District Business Association (MDBA), the evening was an opportunity for locals to ask questions of the panel to better understand their policies and inform their decision at the ballot box on May 21. Candidates in attendance
Indi federal election candidates attend Q Q&A session in Mansfield BY SHAUN McMAHON smcmahon@ nemedia.com.au
were incumbent Helen Haines (Independent), Nadia David (Labor), Liz Fisher (Nationals), Ross Lyman (Liberal), Beth Stevens (One Nation) and Benjamin Gilbert (Greens). After a delayed start and a reading of the rules for the evening’s
proceedings, candidates were invited to introduce themselves to the audience of some 50 plus attendees before moderator, MDBA president Jon Gifford, welcomed questions from the floor. Questions were to be phrased in a manner which allowed all to answer, and not directed to any single candidate - a rule set at the outset which was followed by all with the exception
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tax reform” were the two outliers in an otherwise civilised gathering of people who posed poignant questions with both a local and national focus. Initial questions called for responses on the support of a Federal Integrity Commission, transparency of political donations, visas for refugees, and truth in advertising laws. Frank responses
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of one crowd member, who directed a statement obfuscating an indirect question towards Indi incumbent Dr Haines. The attendee queried her parliamentary voting record, to which Dr Haines responded eloquently and was largely supported by Mr Lyman and Ms Fisher. A further outburst from an attendee asking candidates for their propositions on “decent
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were received from the incumbent member and Labor broadly supporting change to the transparency of political donations and welcoming more refugees - but not necessarily via increased caps for protection visas, while One Nation proposed to reduce the refugee intake for five years to “redirect critical funding to Australian services”. ■ Continued page 7
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