Kristy Quill clearly identified five issues. Leslie Williams could identify only four.

TAFE funding cuts and associated job losses, the Coalition’s plans to sell off the State’s electricity poles and wires, Coalition funding cuts to health and social services, a shortage of vital local mental health facilities and the issues of keeping the Plaza carpark and Crowdy Head foreshore out of private hands were identified by Kristy Quill. 

The poor state of local roads and footpaths, the need to expand acute mental health facilities at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, an expansion of car parking at the hospital and working closely with service providers and consumers in transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme were identified by Leslie Williams.

Leslie Williams has been our local State member four years. If these four issues, as important as they might be, are the best she can now come up with, I believe Port Macquarie needs a new local member.

The issues she has identified do not rate as “big”, nor as highest priority, in this State election.

Perhaps she does not want to focus on the “big” issues, as she does not want the embarrassment of trying to explain her and her party’s position on them.

Patrick Lee, Port Macquarie