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, despite being a former ALP national president who had been discussing a Liberal Democrats Senate vacancy and lived almost 200 kilometres away on Sydney's north shore.Another Nowra shopper, Danielle Dansey, 22, is worried about the cost of housing and finding a job. But busy raising children aged three, four and five, she has absolutely no idea who to vote for, who is standing or even the name of the prime minister who took over from Malcolm Turnbull.
The chief executive of the Waminda Aboriginal health and welfare centre, Faye Worner, says there is a desperate need for more funding for Indigenous health, family support and job programs in an area with "systemic racism". And Mrs Simmons - she of theAdvertisement Labor candidate Fiona Phillips says the Shoalhaven has the lowest workforce participation rate in the country.A former TAFE teacher and business operations manager based at the navy's HMAS Albatross, she came to politics with a successful campaign to save the Nowra pool, where she still swims in an early morning squad with her carpenter husband and two of their children.
Warren Mundine was a former president of the Australian Labor Party but has switched to the Liberals.In a contest where many candidates have more baggage than Paris Hilton on holiday, Mr Mundine has faced questions about his Labor background andMr Mundine cites the Princes Highway improvements, more jobs and better health services, especially to deal with the area's ice and alcohol problem, as key issues."I'm confident, but it's a tight battle," he says.
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