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10 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 22 November, 2017
BATTLE FOR BENNELONG
By-Election Saturday December 16,2017
Labor’s Bennelong Campaign In Full Swing
LABOR candidate Kristina Keneally’s by-election campaign for
Keneally, a former
NSW Premier who more
recently has worked as
a television presenter
for Sky News Australia,
candidate shortly after
Bill Shorten on the same
weekend the by-election
was announced on November
11.
After a week, press-
around the electorate,
tively
short, “all or nothing”
campaign leading
up to the December 16
by-election.
sumed
the MC duties
and was introduced by
Keneally to a thunderous
roar of approval.
“It was quite a surprise
-
ing
hard around this part
of town for quite some
told The Weekly Times.
“It was a great day,
a great for Bennelong,
a hall full of supporters,
several hundred were
there, with so much energy
in the room, made it
quite memorable.
“People are really keen
to have Kristina Keneally
as their local member, to
have someone to stand
up for them in their electorate.”
bor
Party turned out for
the event, including Mr
Shorten, Sydney-based
federal MPs Tanya Plibersek,
Michelle Row-
-
mer state Ryde MP John
Watkins, former NSW
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ment still want to cut
the Energy Supplement
to pensioners, carers,
people with disability
and Australians on
Newstart,” Ms Macklin
said.
Energy Supplement to
new pensioners would
means a cut of $14.10
per fortnight to single
pensioners or $365 a
year, while couple pensioners
would be $21.20
or around $550 a year
-
posed
by Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull and
Tresurer Scott Morrison
in the 2016 Budget, but
the government still has
not been able to pass
the cut through the Senate.
“But the cut remains in
the Parliament and in the
Budget, would impact
on people throughout
Bennelong, New South
Wales and the whole
country,” Ms Keneally
said.
Turnbull listened to the
concerns of pensioners,
carers, people with
disability and Newstart
recipients and dropped
this cut to the Energy
Supplement.
“This is yet another
unfair service cut and
the people of Bennelong
demand that the Energy
Supplement be taken
out of the Parliament
and out of the Budget,
for good.”
Yesterday, the campaign
hit West Ryde
railway station, where
cillor
Bernard Purcell
candidate Jason Yat-
neally
as she engaged
with local commuters.
Young Labor members, Labor candidate Kristina Keneally and federal Labor leader Bill
-
dress concerned pensioners and supporters