Grants need overhaul say Labor MPs
An exposé by the Sydney Morning Herald highlighting the discrepancy between the amounts and values of grants given to Coalition seats versus non-Coalition seats has enraged local Labor Federal and…
Election
Holt vows to fight corruption
Independent Candidate for Robertson, Vania Holt, said she believes corruption must be at the forefront of the national debate during the 2022 federal election. Holt said after spending five years…
The coalpoll follows the sportsrort, carpork and pooldiddle
Forum – Colin Paulson asks how the Government will influence overseas coal users to go on buying Australian coal (“Buckley’s chance of protecting coal”, Chronicle Forum, Nov 17), but the…
No council election hang over
While the rest of the State woke up on Sunday, December 5 with new councillors voted in, Central Coast residents woke up to the same old Council-under-administration. by Merilyn Vale…
Holt decides to stand as independent
Former New Liberals Candidate for Robertson, Dr Vania Holt, has announced she will be contesting the next federal election as an independent candidate instead. With over a decade’s track record…
Affordable housing hots up as an election issue
The growing housing crisis on the Central Coast is shaping up to be one of the big issues at the next Federal election, set to be held by May, 2022….
Reid campaigns for Robertson with election due by May
With the next Federal election due within the next seven months, Labor candidate for the seat of Robertson, Gordon Reid, has started calling in the big guns to support his…
Albanese announces Labor’s new candidate for Robertson
Local doctor and Wiradjuri man, Gordon Reid, has announced he will stand for the hotly-contested seat of Robertson at the next Federal election as a Labor candidate. Reid was joined…
The New Liberals announce election candidate for Robertson
With the next Federal Election slated for no later that may next year, the newly registered party, The New Liberals (TNL) has announced its candidate for the seat of Robertson….
Tracey Howie to contest the seat of Robertson
Central Coast Traditional custodian, Tracey Howie, is set to contest the seat of Robertson at the next Federal Election for the newly formed Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia. The new body…
Save Tuggerah Lakes party registers under new name
It is the first party from the area to be registered with the Electoral Commission to contest the next local government elections in September 2021. The party is called Central…
Greens not to blame for reduced hazard reduction burns
As debate continues to rage around factors contributing to the bush fires which posed a huge threat to the Central Coast in the months leading up to Christmas, The Greens…
Federal election transparency register is not so transparent
Coast activist, David Abrahams, who ran as an independent candidate in the Federal Election for the seat of Robertson earlier this year, said it was a shocking anomaly that his…
New Mayor Matthews
[New Mayor] The Central Coast Council last night elected Lisa Matthews as the new Mayor for the next 12 months. In what appeared to be a predetermined outcome, the ALP-backed…
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: 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…