Labor candidate for Wannon Fiona Mackenzie speaks to Standard reporter Jess Howard at the Warrnambool Primary School polling centre
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00:00I think it was just after nine or so it was absolutely fantastic great lines
00:09right out and everyone very happy mood and really really positive feedback yes
00:16so it's been good and being good to be able to see the voters and talk to them
00:20their main concerns in that they're in interest in your health and women's
00:27health that women have been coming talking about that they're very concerned
00:31about and do not want nuclear that's coming across very clearly too so very
00:37much into also the made in Australia manufacturing very that when they're
00:43asking me about of course being an ex teacher very interested in the future
00:48generations and education and young children too excited about coming they're
00:55thinking they're lining up for a sausage sizzle but in truth you know and
00:59inviting all families to really look at the little YouTube clips and behind the
01:05news about voting and preferential voting because they're coming to learn about
01:10voting which I think is fantastic and trying to understand it all so it's been
01:16a great great time I really enjoyed meeting all the people you know in the
01:21in the last three months I've driven I was about 15,000 kilometres but do you
01:26actually stop and and to meet so many people is well that's that it's great
01:31that's the best part of it all I would tend to say yes yes yes I am and it's it's
01:44really been pleasing to hear how positive people are about the policies people in
01:49saying it's outstanding when it comes to health just covering so many bases there
01:55you know from the urgent care clinics to just providing extra funding into women's
02:01health they're really happy that child care centres have been built in Warrnambool
02:06and I'm really excited about that and and also just making sure that they
02:13understand and and they've been saying to about the fake news about offshore wind farms and
02:19the involvement with seismic blasting which is not the case it is they only use sonar testing
02:25for it and it's a very limited area in which they will be and and you're looking at turbines wind
02:32turbines it'll offer what we need for manufacturing and I'm really I suppose because I've not just done
02:38teaching in my past but I've worked in the metal industry so I'm really really excited about that
02:43prospect that we get that sort of self-sufficient energy and that production and that it means
02:50more jobs and more security really in for Australia so absolutely you look it's exciting
02:58election day is always exciting and people have said oh you know you're the outsider but well done for
03:05actually standing and I think it's actually in a way it's I see it as my duty to to stand but it's
03:13it's more that the labor values and the sense social justice is the thing that really um speaks to me
03:20and it's and it's really want I what I want to see for the future and future for particularly for the
03:27future generations because in the end it's you know policies that stay and good governments good policy
03:34and labor has that and that's why I do really want to see that Albanese labor government re-elected
03:40it's very hard to predict it I must say I know that the um I've seen the the betting result people
03:55show me that they're actually betting on on this campaign I think it's very exciting because suddenly
04:01as they go through the nights in the tally room that they'll get down to Wan and Rimran they just
04:06won't be flashed off the screen with a certainty this one is got is the one to be watched I'm saying
04:11to people go for the outsider because we certainly give better results for Wan and that's what I would
04:18certainly do you know if elected I would work very hard for it okay
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