MACEDON

Mary-Anne Thomas (Labor) 

• I have been working hard to ensure we have the infrastructure in place to support communities across the Hepburn Shire with record investments in education, health, roads and public transport.
  
• Record investments in education, health, roads and public transport – upgrading Daylesford Secondary College and Creswick Aged Care Facility, fixing roads and funding facility upgrades to encourage more women and girls to play the sports they love.
• I will keep working hard to secure the investments communities across the Hepburn Shire need to thrive while creating great local jobs and opportunities for young people
  

• Labor has renewable energy targets of 25 per cent by 2020 and 50 per cent by 2030.
• The shire is striving to be Victoria’s first zero-net emissions community by 2025 and to support this transition, the Andrews Labor Government will support Hepburn Community Wind Park to build Victoria’s first hybrid wind and solar park in Daylesford, which will be the first of its kind in Australia to be community-owned.

• I recently announced a $50,000 grant to fit out a café at the Rex in Daylesford to be run as a social enterprise and provide training and employment pathways for young locals.
• The Andrews Government has led the development of the Daylesford Institute of Gastronomy business case and announced a grants program for artisanal producers.

Ruth Parramore (Animal Justice Party)

• The Animal Justice Party’s main objective is to ensure  the lives and interests of animals are observed and respected. We would support improvement in infrastructure first and foremost, that do not cause harm to animals and do respect wildlife and encourage their movement through the environment unimpeded.

• We have a clear science based policy on sustainability. It is an AJP priority that urgent action be taken to address global climate destabilisation. Some of our key objectives are to transform to carbon free energy infrastructure, transform agriculture to allow reforestation, prohibit any fossil fuel expansion, implement a carbon tax on the worst climate polluters, direct carbon taxes to clean energy solutions and protect existing forests.

• The AJP aims to maximise gainful employment through the promotion of growth in sustainable animal friendly industries across the board such as eco-tourism, plant based food products and technologies, and upcycled and recycled design.

Ralf Thesing (Australian Greens)

• Public housing: ensuring every Victorian has a place to call home by building 40,000 new and refurbished public housing homes over the next six years to eradicated the list of 82,000 people waiting for housing.

• Moving to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030 while bringing the energy system back into public hands by upgrading the Victorian Energy Transmission Network. 
• Phasing out coal plants by 2030 – with a comprehensive plan to create new industries. 
• Plans to protect our parks and wildlife with a waste transition plan to address the serious issue of plastic pollution, which includes introducing a container deposit scheme, expand the local recycling industry and close the loop on food waste.

• Rebuilding TAFE by ensuring a minimum of 70 per cent of government vocational education and training funding goes toward TAFE institutions. 
• Restoring community mental health services ($200 million over four years) so mental health clinical services are delivered in regional and smaller communities,creating employment and attracting more people to regional Victoria.

Amanda Millar (Liberal)

• The Liberal/ Nationals will bring high speed rail to regional Victoria and will prioritise the completion of a high speed 45 minute Ballarat – Melbourne service.
• A $5 million commitment to stage one of the Daylesford – Macedon Ranges Rail Trail and other cycling infrastructure.
  
• A $1 billion commitment to repair country roads.
• Funding more front line police, education and mental health.

• The Liberal/Nationals are committed to a sustainable future and ensuring that locals communities have a greater voice in how we plan for the future and protect our natural environment.
  
• Sustainability projects will include the Solar In Schools Program and local content targets to ensure more of Victoria’s renewable energy investment is locally produced.

• Daylesford to Macedon Ranges Rail Trail is estimated to create at least 70 new job in this area.
  
• Cutting payroll tax to just 1 per cent for regional businesses will allow the creation of more jobs.
  
• The Liberal/Nationals will also put the focus back on our agricultural sector – to grow Victoria’s food and fibre sector and support local producers.

Tony O’Brien (Democratic Labor Party)

• Will advocate for better country passenger and freight rail services throughout Victoria, especially around revitalising and re-establishing cross country links.
  

• Opposed to the Victorian Environment Assessment Council’s draft recommendations to create national parks across Victoria, saying it would severely deny hunters, campers, horse riders, other legitimate bush users’ access.
  
• Believes electricity generation must be based on affordable and guaranteed energy supply rather than on the “costly intermittent vagaries of wind and solar renewable”.
  

• Wants to make Victoria a manufacturing dynamo again to create more regional jobs.

RIPON

Sarah de Santis (Labor)

• The Andrews Labor Government is investing to ensure every Victorian patient gets the care they deserve and the best ambulance response times in a decade – Here in Hepburn we've seen ambulance response times improve by 6 minutes and 32 seconds. 
  
• We are building 70 new schools and upgrading more than 1,300 schools, and funding the biggest recruitment drive in police history with 3,135 new police rolling out across Victoria.
  

• In the face of no federal leadership, we’re getting on with delivering our Solar Homes program, our Victorian Renewable Energy Target (VRET) and the many other initiatives to tackle climate change, increase renewable energy and reduce prices. 
  

• We promised to rescue TAFE, and we have. Now, we’re making it bigger and better than ever before: making 30 priority courses free, creating 30,000 new training places and upgrading our regional campuses. 
  

Anna Hills (Animal Justice Party)

Serge Simic (Australian Greens)

• Infrastructure includes roads and bridges, as well as social infrastructure like hospitals, police stations, schools and so on. I would lobby for Hepburn Council to get a fairer share of untied federal grant funding for its roads. 
• I pledge to work with the community over the next four years to advance strong claims for social infrastructure investment.

• The Greens are the only party that recognize the urgency of the climate emergency we are facing. We will Power Victoria by 100 per cent clean renewable energy by 2030 and lower prices by setting up a government-owned electricity retailer.
• We propose big investments in public transport and rail freight.
  

• More investments in renewable energy generation, in the grid and solar for homes will require large numbers of trained technicians for installation and maintenance. 
• Helping to prepare farmers for a changing climate, including producing more with less water is needed if we are to save jobs in agriculture.

Louise Staley (Liberal)

• Providing $3 million to rebuild Creswick Police station and investing $30 million to boost mobile connectivity across rural and regional Victoria. 

• The Liberal National Coalition supports a responsible transition to cleaner energy that does not jeopardise energy affordability, reliability and security. We support a national approach to emissions reductions that is consistent with our international obligations, not got-it-alone state based renewable energy targets.

• A targetted new tourism marketing campaign to encourage tourists to try their hand at gold prospecting and immerse themselves in Victoria’s rich goldfields history.

Peter Mulcahy (Democratic Labour Party)

• Better regional rail services 

• Turning farming waste into energy

• Decentralising rural development 

Bronwyn Jennings (Victorian Socialists)

• More housing – the socialists want 50,000 new public housing units

• The Victorian Socialists believe the planet is facing a climate change crisis that is a direct product of a world economy based on capitalism, nationalism and profit-directed growth. Wants more renewable energy.

• Campaign for worker’s rights – more sustainable jobs throughout the region

Peter Fava (Shooters, Fishers and Farmers)

• No national parks
• More rights for hunters 
• Protect the future of outdoor sports in Victoria

• Realising quality and value of agricultural land 
• Increase government support for farmers while providing incentives to keep Australia’s farmland owned locally

Sandra Gibbs (Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party)

• Did not receive a reply, policies can be found at: https://www.justiceparty.com.au/newsroom