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The Newtons
Thursday, 4 August 201110:54 PM Elections
One Electorate

We refer to the current review of electoralboundaries in the ACT and have one, logical request - Gungahlin and Belconnen have to be in the one Electorate.  Anything different is so unrepresentative and so unfair to resdi ents as to be bordering on criminally stupid.

We in the northem  area of the ACT have different needs and priorities to consliluents in other areas,and those other areas have their own needs and priorities. To be effective representatives,elected members need to be able to focus their priorities in a clear single area, and that isn't possible with a different configuration of the boundaries, and it's not possible with the totally artificialand disjointed configuration proposed or one with an elongated shape that cuts across different,identifiable communities groupings.

Garry & Jo Newton
Residents of Palmerston for 19 years and Belconnen for 10 years before that.