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100 years of smiles for Norma Pakenham’s Norma Allen has shared her secret to a long and happy life. “The most important thing is to have is a sense of humour because if you have a sense of humour, it helps you through the hard days,” she said. Norma celebrated her 100th birthday last week, surrounded by friends and family at Pakenham Meadowvale. She even received a card of congratulations from Her Majesty the Queen. STORY PAGE 2 Norma (centre) with daughters Marlane and Beverly at a morning tea at Meadowvale Pakenham. 293500 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
Fight for the seat The fight for the new seat of Pakenham is heating up, on the back of new data. Labor would have picked up the seat of Pakenham in the 2018 State election, and Bass would have changed hands, as a result of an electoral boundary redistribution, according to new data from the Victorian Electoral Commission. The data analyses how two-candidate-preferred votes would have fallen if the 2018 state election had used the electoral boundaries that will be in place for the 2022 election.
According to the data analysis released on Monday 8 August, the Labor Party would have won the new seat of Pakenham (formerly part of Gembrook) while the seat of Bass would have been lost by Labor to the Liberals. The new seat of Pakenham is being contended by Labor’s Emma Vulin and the Liberals’ David Farrelly. In 2018, the seat of Gembrook was won by the Liberal Party with a margin of 50.92 per cent, compared to the Labor Party’s 49.08 per cent.
Under the new electoral boundaries, Pakenham would have been won by Labor with 52.2 per cent against the Liberals’ 47.8 per cent. Incumbent Gembrook MP Brad Battin is running for the seat of Berwick in the upcoming election, while other parties are yet to confirm their candidates. The new district of Berwick is predicted to be held by the Liberals this year with a margin of 51.3 per cent compared to Labor at 48.7 per cent. In Bass, Labor’s Jordan Crugnale won the
seat with 52.39 per cent of the two-party preferred vote in 2018. However, with the 2022 electoral boundaries, the Liberal Party would have marginally won the seat in 2018 with 50.7 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. Ms Crugnale is stepping up for re-election in Bass, this time without the township of Pakenham in the electorate, alongside past Bass Coast mayor Brett Tessari for the National Party and past South Gippsland councillor Aaron Brown for the Liberals.
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