Friday 10 June 2016
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Labor seat safe
Now that’s one Hecker a scarf
Lyons shuns Corio By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN Corio is set to retain its safeseat status after former Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons decided against nominating for this year’s federal election. The Geelong Indy understands Mr Lyons decided to take a break from the hurly burly of politics after his mayoral experiences. He was this week overseas on business and out of contact. The Indy understands Mr Lyons has enjoyed the break after State Government sacked Geelong’s council in April. Nominations closed at noon on Thursday, with candidates declared 24 hours later. The Indy reported last month that the region’s other federal electorate, the marginal seat of Corangamite, was garnering the lion’s share of attention from the major parties. Corangamite received a se-
Alex Hecker models a colourful entry in Geelong’s 2016 Scarf Festival exhibition at the National Wool Museum, in Moorabool St, until the end of the month.
ries of political visitors from both sides over the past few weeks, many bearing funding announcements. Incumbent Liberal MP Sarah Henderson is in a tight battle with Labor candidate Libby Coker and both hosted party leaders. The Liberals have a 4.2 per cent margin in Corangamite but Labor front-bencher Richard Marles holds Corio with an edge of 13.5 per cent. Before Thursday’s cut-off, Mr Lyons had refused to rule out standing as an independent, which could have reduced Labor’s hold on Corio with a likely preference swap between him and Liberal candidate Richard Lange. Mr Lange said his campaign would remain unchanged despite Mr Lyons’ absence as a candidate. “Nothing changes, we still want to make Corio matter,” Mr Lange said. Continued page 11
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