Dedicated to her electorate; Jordan’s ready to run again

CURRENT Labor member for Bass Jordan Crugnale says she is determined as ever to ensure the electorate has all the programs, supports, services and investments it needs now and into the future. 

Since being elected in 2018, Ms Crugnale said her focus and energy has been to fight, advocate and deliver for the communities she is honoured to represent. 

“We have a massive reform and capital investment agenda that is and will continue to bring change for the better in how we live, how we are supported, how we define ourselves as a community and society,” she said.

“Kindergartens, schools, TAFES, hospitals, environment, housing, mental health and youth services, state funded aged care homes. 

“We continue to support small businesses, new and emerging industries and are responsible for major roads, public transport, emergency services, agriculture and much more.

“We are making three and four-old-kinder free across the state from 2023 saving families up to $2500 per child per year. 

“We are delivering universal Pre-Prep for four-year-olds, establishing 50 government owned childcare centres over the decade. This is in addition to continuing to roll out 15 hours of three-year-old kindergarten.

“We are leading the nation in treaty and truth telling processes and are deeply committed to Aboriginal self-determination and working proactively to support this work in line with the aspirations of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria.”

Ms Crugnale said the government is also leading the nation in climate change, adaptation, transition to renewables, new and emerging industry investment.

“We see that right here with our work on the Cape to Cape coastal erosion and resilience project, our investment in offshore wind, our solar homes program, our free TAFE courses which we partner with industry so as there are meaningly, attainable pathways to local, secure jobs for our kids and peers,” she said. 

“We have the biggest investment in social and affordable housing of any jurisdiction in Australia - we have a minimum $25 million allocated for Bass Coast and both Casey and Cardinia are priority areas already seeing projects built and we can’t stop just there.”

Ms Crugnale urged the community to deeply think about what causes activate them and what their priority focus area is.

“What do they see as enabling positive change and to take the time to ask questions, get the facts so as to make an informed decision at the polls in November of who best will represent them, their families, the community members living amongst us not travelling so well and have not been afforded all the opportunities in life,” she said.

“One of the main ones for me is our Mental Health Royal Commission, its recommendations and implementation. 

“This is big, impactful, a game changer reform, a system that is currently broken but we are well on the way to being rebuilt and it’ll take a good 10 years and I know what the risk will be should there be a change in government.”

Ms Crugnale said as the community continues to grow, this brings more opportunities but also new challenges. 

“We’re just getting started here in Bass and whilst the investment into our area has been remarkable and unprecedented, we have more stories to tell, voices to listen too, aspirations to fill, more opportunities to grasp and heaps more investments to be made,” she said.

“I am totally up to continuing to work for and beside our community to deliver more because each and every person, every family, every club, group, organisation, service is worth it.”