The Liberal Party has announced that former Member for Robertson Lucy Wicks will once again contest the seat in the federal government election to be held early in 2025.
Wicks lost the seat in May 2022 when Dr Gordon Reid became the electorate’s first Labor MP in almost a decade, achieving a 6.9 per cent swing against Wicks, who had held the seat since 2013.
A Liberal Party spokesperson said Wicks had successfully delivered infrastructure upgrades, better services and a strong local economy as the former Member.
“With a deep, long-standing connection to the Robertson community, forged growing up in Point Clare and attending high school at Narara, Lucy has always been a strong advocate for the Coast,” the spokesperson said.
Wicks, a former high school teacher, says she has always believed the Central Coast is the best place to live and raise children.
“I am committed to giving back to the community that has been so supportive of our family – as members of the local church community, Terrigal Surf Life Saving Club and the Terrigal Trojans Rugby Club,” she said.
She said she had worked with the community to deliver upgrades to 29 of the worst roads across the Coast, hundreds of new jobs for Gosford and the world-class Central Coast Clinical School and Research Institute.
“While Labor had promised so much to win Robertson, the Albanese Government has failed to deliver and let our community down,” she said.
“Our region deserves its voice back.
“I want to be that strong local voice for Robertson to advocate and fight for the better days ahead that people on the Coast deserve.”
Wicks also takes credit for continuous mobile phone coverage and free Wi-Fi at 19 train stations from Wyong to Hornsby, the Health on The Streets program for people sleeping rough, the first culturally-appropriate rehabilitation facility for women The Glen, and environmental protections including improving the water quality in Avoca Lagoon, funding Clean4Shore and standing up against the PEP-11 licence.
OMG not again 😳
great we need her AGAIN
so good to hear Lucy has decided to return to listen & get things done
Go girl!
Lucy Wicks needs to get her act together if she is going to get her seat back in 2025.
Gordon has been a good MP for our area.
Unfortunately he belongs to a party that I cannot, in all conscience, vote for.
Poor rich woman from Terrigal the only thing she did was knife a Prime Minister in her ten years. Liberals absolutely screwed the coast with the council merger or have we learned nothing?
If Daffy Duck ran for Robertson I would vote for him. Anything is better than watching the prosperity and reputation of Australia be destroyed by the worst Prime Minister in our modern history. He is a professional politician who is clueless of how our Economy is supposed to operate. Go away you incompetent fool. Bring on Lucy!!! Let’s get rid of Labor once and for all.