Lucie promises to take rural issues to Macquarie Street
Story by Tricia Duffield and Ian Cole
The seat of Barwon is the largest in New South Wales, and in the upcoming state election, probably the hardest one to win.
Sitting Independent Member Roy Butler is seen as one of the most popular political representatives of Barwon for twenty years.
However, that hasn’t deterred Gilgandra’s Lucie Wightman from throwing her hat in the ring as the new Nationals candidate for Barwon.
Mis Wightman has wasted no time in hitting the campaign trail and was in Bourke last week to meet the locals and familiarise herself with the community.
From Bourke, Lucie headed downstream, to Louth, Tilpa, Wilcannia and Menindee on a ‘water’ tour with NSW’s Shadow Minister for Water, Steph Cooke.
“What we’re finding is that nothing short of a change of government will improve anything out here in the electorate of Barwon,” Ms Wightman said.
“I’m on the road with Steph Cooke looking at the failure of water policy, and nothing short of a change of government at both levels – state and federal – will improve so many things for our regions.[…]
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