Mia Armitage & Hans Lovejoy
Voters in the Ballina electorate now have six candidates to choose from in the upcoming NSW election, with Keep Sydney Open and Sustainable Australia parties registering candidates late in the race.
Keep Sydney Open and Sustainable Australia join the Animal Justice Party, Country Labor, The Greens and the Nationals in fielding candidates across the northern rivers in the Tweed, Ballina and Lismore electorates.
James Wright is representing Keep Sydney Open in Ballina and says there is a ‘cultural emergency happening in NSW’.
‘It started half a decade ago with the introduction of the lock out laws in Sydney,’ he says, ‘and it is now extending to extreme pay-for-policing policies at music festivals and public events’.
Despite the party name, Mr Wright says Keep Sydney Open has 42 candidates across the state and is ‘now about keeping Ballina, Brunswick Heads, Alstonville, Federal, Mullumbimby, Byron, Newcastle and The Blue Mountains open’.
Sustainable Australia’s Lisa McDermott says her party’s policies include a ‘sustainable environment and population, affordable housing for first home buyers and renters, secure jobs via a more diverse economy and better planning to stop overdevelopment’.
The Echo has ambitiously attempted to collate policies and pledges from the candidates for the seat of Ballina.
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