Lucy Wicks to stand again for Robertson

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.