Your Lowan state election commitments charted
We recount some of the commitments an independent and the two major political parties and their candidates have made so far for Lowan, currently held by the Nationals.
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COALITION
Candidate: Emma Kealy, Nationals
- Return passenger rail to Horsham and Hamilton, part of a $19-billion pledge to transform Victoria’s regional rail network
- Wimmera River Horsham development plan – $150,000
- Warracknabeal Education Precinct stage two funding – $6.6 million
- Horsham Aquatic Centre water play and splash park – $2 million
- Halls Gap improvements – $2.75 million
- Longerenong College upgrades – $525,000
- Davis Park Nhill grandstand upgrade – $600,000
- Road Fix Blitz program to restore country and regional roads – $1 billion
- Outreach fund for headspace – $1.14 million
- Free books for secondary school students
- Independent inquiry into farm rates
- Increasing Victorian Patient Transport Assistance Scheme reimbursement rates
- Grassroots Sport Revival Fund – $195 million
- Extra support for families of children with autism – $50 million
LABOR
Candidate: Maurice Billi
Guaranteed funding:
- Agriculture Skills Statement – $20 million, including $6.1 million for Longerenong College
- Horsham high-speed internet upgrade – $1.7 million
- Murtoa memorial gates restoration work – $16,312
- Pomonal Primary School outdoor classroom – $90,000
- Local Roads to Market program – $3.9 million in the Wimmera
- Rupanyup retail hub project – $500,000
- Fixing Country Roads Program - $30.1 million in round one, including for Wimmera projects
Election pledges:
- Dual-crew Rupanyup ambulance station
- Mental health professionals for every public school
- Health Services Workers Training Fund – $1.25 million
- Abolish standing energy offers and require retailers to introduce a Victorian Default Offer
- Recruit 1100 new nurses and midwives
- Extra 500,000 specialist appointments in regional communities
INDEPENDENT
Candidate: Barry Shea
Mr Shea is standing for:
- Passenger rail from Ararat to Horsham and Hamilton
- Better roads
- Bypasses for Horsham, Ararat and Beaufort
- Lower energy prices
- A review of council rates and how local government is funded
- Warracknabeal Education Precinct completion
- Greater support for aged care and disability sectors
- Hospital and medical service upgrades
- Drought relief
Note: After this story was completed, the Victorian Socialists announced they would field a candidate in Lowan.
Carly Werner
Senior journalist
