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PENFOLD WELCOMES
COMMUNITY CABINET Member for Flinders Liz Penfold has written to all cabinet Ministers welcoming them to Port Lincoln for community cabinet on February 12th and 13th. Mrs Penfold said that she has asked ministers to consider driving to Port Lincoln via the new ferry service operating between Wallaroo and Lucky Bay. “I believe community cabinet is an excellent opportunity for our government leaders to not only travel on the ferry but it will also allow ministers to call into towns along the way”. “It’s all about educating our ministers. The Minister for Transport Mr. Conlon will be able to experience the ferry first hand and appreciate the need to seal the 12 kilometre of road at Lucky Bay,” she said. Mrs. Penfold said she had specifically asked Dr Lomax-Smith in her role as the Minister for Tourism to experience South Australia’s newest form of transport that is opening up tourism on Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, and then once on Eyre Peninsula to don her Minister for Education hat and visit small schools on her way to Port Lincoln. “I am hoping that the Minister for Agriculture Rory McEwen may be able to visit Minnipa Research Centre, a world class leader in dryland farming, and look at the effects of the 2006 season on our farming communities,” she said. Members of the public who would like to take the opportunity of lobbying government ministers should write to them now seeking an interview. “The committee of the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum, one of our brilliant facilities in Port Lincoln, has written to Ministers Hill and Lomax-Smith in their ministerial portfolios, to visit when they are in town.” “Bringing cabinet to rural areas was the initiative of the former Liberal government and has been hugely successful in the past,” Mrs. Penfold said. ENDS |
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