Sitting Federal Members Returned
A region-wide swing of more than 3% to the Liberal Party the May 18 Federal Election has seen, Lucy Wicks, returned for a third term as Member Labor’s, Emma McBride, holding onto…
Election
Election: PEP11, Youth & Tax to Drive Voters
The Australian Electoral Commission estimates that, by Saturday, as many as 40 per cent or more of all Coasties will have already voted in the Federal Election. Coast Community News…
Prepoll interviews in Gosford raise many issues
With early polling stations open, Ross Barry interviews voters and campaigners on the issues that are helping them decide on how they will vote in Robertson in 2019 Federal election….
Federal election officially underway
The ballot order has been decided for the seat of Robertson, with Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, saying the May 18 Federal Election will be the most important choice voters…
Sitting Members retain their seats
Both [Peninsula] local Members of Parliament have retained their seats in Saturday’s State election. Liberal Member tor Terrigal Mr Adam Crouch won an outright majority witn almost 53 per cent…
Tesch on fines & election
Flushed with success after having hundreds of parking fines issued to residents parked on the grass verge at the front of their homes waived last week, Gosford MP Liesl Tesch…
Dave Abrahams to run for Robertson
Hardys Bay resident Mr David Abrahams has announced he will run as an independent candidate in the 2019 federal election in the seat of Robertson. Mr Abrahams announced his candidacy…
Shock preselection loss to Scot MacDonald
Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, has lost preselection to recontest his Legislative Council seat in the March, 2019, NSW State Government election. Fellow Member of the Legislative…
Greens’ candidate speaks out on major local issues
Cath Connor, recently announced as the Greens’ candidate for Robertson in the 2019 Federal election, has called for the sitting Member, Lucy Wicks, to stop the Wallarah 2 coal mine….
Greens senator to speak at Woy Woy
The Central Coast Greens will host a special meet and greet lunch with NSW Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi in Woy Woy. The lunch with Senator Faruqi event will take place…
MP or councillor, but not both
[Forum] I write in response to the article in Coast Community News (Edition 187) that Cr Jeff Sundstrom will stand for the seat of Terrigal at the next State Election. Cr…
Belinda Neal fights party expulsion
The Gosford Australian Labor Party State Electoral Council has announced on July 17 that the former Member for Robertson, Ms Belinda Neal, is no longer a member of the party….
Labor promises air conditioning for all class rooms
Labor candidate for Terrigal, Jeff Sundstrom, has announced that his party’s Cool Schools policy would result in all schools in the Terrigal electorate being fully air-conditioned under a NSW Labor…
Lucy Wicks sceptical of Labor’s promised $15m parking plan
Labor’s promise of $15m to build three commuter car parks across the Central Coast is a gross under-estimate of the costs involved, according to the Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks….
Greens say mine decision demonstrates election promises cannot be trusted
NSW Greens energy and resources spokesman, Mr Jeremy Buckingham, said the approval of the Wallarah 2 coal mine demonstrated that the Liberal Party could not be trusted to keep election…
Only system changes could make councillors responsive
What Fred Charles fails to grasp (Do we have to wait another three years? Peninsula News, December 11) is that the majority of councillors do not represent the ward they…
Party councillors have been missing in action
In response to Fred Charles, “Do we have to wait another three years?”, how would things have been different when the candidates that were elected didn’t live on the Peninsula?…
A most surprising Councillor – Bruce McLachlan
When the results came in on election night many people thought there had been some kind of mistake in the counting of votes in The Entrance ward. A total newcomer to…
Jane Smith first Central Coast Mayor
Independent councillor Jane Smith has been elected the Mayor of the new Central Coast Council this evening in a close contest with councillor Doug Vincent of the Labor party. In…
Newly-elected Central Coast Councillors ready to take the challenge
The results of the first election for the Central Coast Council were declared at around 3:00pm on Friday, September 15. The 15 newly-elected Central Coast Councillors will formally take an…