Mustica Leads Council Election Field
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Phone 5862 1034 – Fax 5862 2668 – Email - Editorial: [email protected] - Advertising: [email protected] – Registered by Australia Post – Publication No. VA 1548 established 1895 LEADER NumurkahWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2020 $1.30 INSIDE Anonymous thanks Love story See story page 13 Feeling the love ... Tyler Nelson, Faith Nelson, Indi Rodda and Chase Rodda A cuppa present a think you gift to staff at Numurkah hospital. From left: Kimi Joseph, with June Kim Jackel, Naomi Hopkins, Kiarna McKinnon and Marjo Reijnen. See story page 4. See story page 12 Mustica leads council election fi eld ACCORDING to running local government poll- Any candidate who receives the quota is elect- Nathalia - with rst time candidate Wayne Limbrick ing results seen by the Leader, outgoing mayor Li- ed. Any votes they receive over the quota are then joining experienced councillor Kevin Bourke on bro Mustica appears to be a shoe-in for a return to passed on to other candidates according to voters’ this year’s ballot - might split the local vote and re- council. preferences. sult in neither candidate making it across the line, As of 5pm last ursday, in the most recent run- Using a formula on the Victorian Electoral Com- the opposite may prove to be true. ning total available, Mr Mustica was well ahead in mission’s website, we estimate that the quota in With Mr Bourke having already received over the 17 candidate race, having received 2,015 of the Moira Shire for this election will be somewhere in 1,000 rst preference votes, and Mr Limbrick only 13,154 valid votes counted to that point. the region of 1,600 votes. 100 votes behind him, Nathalia may well end up Former councillor Kevin Bourke is in second Assuming this is correct, Mr Mustica has already with two locals on council for the next four years. place with 1,063 votes, with former councillor Pe- exceeded the quota in rst preference votes alone. With a total of 24,290 registered voters in Moira ter Mans eld 50 votes behind him in third place, For the other candidates, especially those outside Natahalia rst time candidates Andrew Goldman and Wayne the top nine at this point, allocation of preferences Shire, it is estimated that there was a turn out of Limbrick in fourth and h places respectively, and could be crucial. For those currently in the middle around 85%, equating to between 20,000 and former councillor Marie Martin in sixth place. of the pack, much could depend on how closely vot- 21,000 votes cast. Votes already counted include outdoor Former councillor Ed Cox, rst time candidates ers who put Mr Mustica at number one on the ballot around 15% informal votes, which is signi cantly Peter Elliot and Julie Brooks, and former councillor choose to follow the advice on his how-to-vote card. higher than the nal number of informal votes in the John Beitzel round out the top 10. Mr Mustica named Julie Brooks, currently in ninth past two elections. gym As an unsubdivided council, Moira Shire is sub- place, as his rst preference, followed by Andrew e VEC has warned that due to the election being ject to proportional counting, which means that, to Goldman, Peter Elliot, Ed Cox and John Beitzel in held entirely via postal vote as a result of the pan- See story page 5 be elected, candidates must receive a proportion of his top ve. demic situation, election results may not be known votes known as a quota. Despite concerns that having two candidates from until as late as November 13. 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Wright Numurkah Coordinator – MHA Care Phone 5742 1111 Janine Gi ens David Parker No, I can’t see us going to Melbourne this year. Not because of the virus De nitely not. It’s not worth the risk that the numbers aren’t worse in Mel- All Day though, we just don’t go to Melbourne that o en any way, and we don’t bourne than they appear. Open Sat & Sun 8am-8pm really have a reason to go any time soon. Breakfast 8am - 12noon Kebabs 12noon - 5pm Open all day for coffee Thai 5pm - 8pm Ellen Mino i Yes, hopefully I’ll be going soon. We have a daughter down there, so I Jessica Legge want to go and visit her as soon as I can, but it will just depend on both I’ll go eventually, but not for a while. I don’t have much reason to, so I our work schedules. doubt I’d be going there until a er Christmas at least. National survey to help secure Busy weekend for brigades future of local news NEWSPAPER readers in Numurkah might improve into the future.” LOCAL re brigades had x 20 metres. Strathmerton’s district are being urged to have their say Project partner and Country Press a busy weekend, with four two tankers extinguished the on the future of country media in Aus- Australia Executive Director, Bruce turn-outs across the Numur- re; Katunga did not turn tralia’s biggest survey on local news. Morgan, said the project was as much kah district. out and Yarroweyah was not e survey, launched nationally last about regional communities as it was e action started on Friday required. week, is part of the largest study of its about local media businesses. a ernoon, with Wunghnu At 6.10pm on Sunday, kind in Australia, running for three “Local media outside metropolitan called on to assist Tallygaroo- Katunga and Numurkah bri- years with almost $250,000 backing Australia is very much the journal of Find us on pna at a car re at Woodland gades were called to a truck from the Australian Research Council, record for the towns and regions it rep- Lane, Bunbartha, but not re at Hayes Road, Katunga, one of the Federal Government’s main resents,” he said. ending up being required. between Lorenzs and La- competitive research funding agencies. “It is not exaggerating to say that, National survey to help secure future of local news On Saturday, at 10.55am, buan Roads. 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