scone.com.auTony Visiting Local Towns
TONY Windsor visited Scone, Aberdeen and Murrurundi on Thursday to informally chat to residents.
He said he will be back again this Thursday for meetings and will hold a public meeting soon also.
Tony Windsor visiting Scone before Easter
“My modus operandi is try and ascertain what the communities view is and to try and reflect what people want, rather than what I think might be good for them, which is a bit of a contrast to some within the political system,” said Mr Windsor.
“For example with Tenterfield bypass the years that went by with internal arguments and it wasn’t until they arrived at a consensus that they actually got funding for it,” he said.
“I don’t think I need to become the expert on every issue I think the representative is to represent what the community want, that doesn’t mean you don’t get across the technical detail but the successful projects are always those that have reasonably united support,” Tony Windsor said.
Tony said the issues that were raised with him included the bypass, overpass, employment issues, the downturn in mining, the equine industry, broadband and the NBN.
“In Murrurundi, Aberdeen and Scone I went in and out of various shops just letting them know I was standing for election and a few people didn’t know they were in the seat of New England now, so I was happy to explain that to them, it’s only just happened and there hasn’t been a lot of advertising about the boundary changes,” said Mr Windsor.
“But just getting myself across the issues, to physically have a look at the rail crossing and there were definitely a few views we were picking up in the street, some for an overpass, some for a bypass and some for both,” he said.
“At this stage it is just getting to know people at the issue,” Tony Windsor said.
When Tony Windsor announced he would run he said Scone stood to benefit from being a marginal seat as greater political attention would be focused on the area and with Barnaby Joyce in town today, there is certainly a lot of political activity in these small townships even before the election has been called.
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