Voters’ needs to weigh heavily

After a brief chat to one of your reporters in Wonthaggi (recently), the following issues for some voters will loom large including:
- better medical and dental specialist services, more trained staff for the growing aged population in the absence of fast rail and road transport to Melbourne for specialist services;
- better roads free of potholes, and level so as able to carry more heavy traffic at higher speed levels so it doesn’t take 3 hours and a 300 km round trip duration to Melbourne;
- better roads especially from Wonthaggi to Anderson, from Cowes to San Remo, from Anderson to Tooradin and all branches off the South Gippsland Highway;
- better sporting facilities for the aging population, not just school kids;
- better COVID management and other pandemic and flu seasons events, than past track record of last three years;
- better government with less branch stacking, less internal corruption, less “look at me” and more real action beneficial outcomes;
- less billions spent on railway crossing removal, tunnel stop and start infrastructure building and change that adds hardly any perceptible benefits to the citizen;
- less taxes - lower land taxes, lower car registration costs, lower rates, lower energy and fuel costs, for better outcomes and better value add improvements to all;
- more, not fewer, police stations and police presence where needed most, on time, on cue, on the ball;
- more shops occupied than for lease;
- more money making more Gippsland, Phillip Island museums, airfields more attractive, more accessible;
- more relocation of auto and aerospace industries to Gippsland;
- better jetty facilities and faster ferry services from Cowes to mainland and connecting rail to Melbourne.

Greg Jarosch, Cowes