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YEARS Looking back on costumes from previous performances as the Two Wells Melodrama Group celebrates its 40th year next month were long-time performers Anne Arbon and Kay Boon.
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THE CHAMP IS HERE JACK HUDSON JOBS and health are at the forefront for newly elected Labor Member for Taylor Nick Champion following the State Election result. Mr Champion, who recently resigned from his federal electorate of Spence, made the move into state politics. Speaking to the Two Wells Echo, Mr Champion was grateful for the opportunity. “I am incredibly honoured that the people of this community has put their faith in me, and I cannot thank them enough for their support,” he said. “I’m excited to be able to deliver for the people of Taylor and will work hard to ensure
they are best represented in parliament. “Throughout the campaign it was clear to me, when I heard from people across the state, that they wanted a government that put a higher focus on fixing the health system. “Now Premier Peter Malinauskas and the Labor team offered a clear choice at the election: Spending $662 million on a basketball stadium in the city, or spending that money on health. “I’m pleased the people of Taylor agree.” Mr Champion was sworn in as minister for trade and investment, minister for housing and urban development and minister for planning on Thursday, March 25. He said his and the newly-elected state government’s focus is jobs and health in Taylor.
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“Locals continuously raised both these issues when I was out speaking to the community about what matters most to them,” he said, “South Australia currently has the highest unemployment rate, and the north is usually affected. He won the seat convincingly, with 69.5 per cent of the preference count ahead of Liberal’s Shawn Lock. On first preference voting, Mr Champion had 54.2 per cent, Mr Lock 21.5 per cent, One Nation’s Michelle Crowley had 8.6 per cent, Family First’s Gary Newton Balfort had 7.4 per cent, and The Greens’ John Wishart had 5.4 per cent.
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