By Shelby Brooks
Bass MP Jordan Crugnale has confirmed she will restand in the next state election for the seat of Bass, to be held 26 November 2022.
This time around, the seat of Bass will lose the townships of Clyde North and Pakenham, but will gain towns in the Westernport Bay area including Tooradin, Pearcedale, Cranbourne South, Devon Meadows and Cannons Creek.
Ms Crugnale said she was proud to have represented the people and communities of Bass in the past three years.
“My commitment to this wonderfully unique area made up of a proud, caring, hardworking, inclusive and diverse community has never waivered. I am as determined as ever to enable it to succeed, and grow, and flourish. There is still so much work still to do,” she said.
“It’s for this reason that I have nominated to again stand for the seat of Bass at the next state election.”
Ms Crugnale said since being elected to the seat of Bass in the Victorian Parliament in 2018, she had delivered record funding to the region.
“Across the electorate, there are new and upgraded schools, hospitals, road and rail infrastructure, skills, training and job opportunities that are all helping families and businesses to recover after some of the most challenging and unpredictable circumstances that any of us could ever have imagined,” she said.
“Social and affordable housing, mental health supports in our primary and secondary schools, regional parks that immerses ourselves in nature, walking trails, revamped sporting facilities, solar on roofs, supports for our arts and events sector, innovation programs for our food and fibre industries just to name a few and really at the core of it all is to live well, work close to home, have the pathways and opportunities for our kids and feel supported and connected in to our community.”
On Friday 10 November, other media were reporting that Premier Dan Andrew’s electorate officer Emma Vulin, who is also a volunteer at the Upper Beaconsfield CFA, will stand as the Labor candidate in the new seat of Pakenham.
Her candidacy is expected to be confirmed when the ALP’s National Executive meets on Monday 13 December.
