Make Footscray Marginal

09/12/2025

11/03/2024

💀 “It was an honour to address the Zionist Federation of Australia’s annual conference today. Australia has always been a friend of Israel. The Albanese Labor government will continue to strengthen that friendship." - Hon Tim Watts MP

https://www.zfa.com.au/assistant-foreign-minister-the-hon-tim-watts-mp-speaks-at-the-zfas-biennial-conference/

02/12/2023

🗳️ 2 Dec 2023: In FOOTSCRAY... Labor is clinging on to a 4.2% margin.

The politics of planning is now front of mind for Victoria’s main parties, as the number of renters rise and homeowners shrink.

28/11/2021

✍🏾 Pollsters and strategists are seeing the mood for independents to do well, especially in the western suburbs.

"A more middle-class cohort that has moved into that area, bringing with them expectations of services, expectations of a quality of life"

"I'd love to vote for someone else in my area because I feel like, as a safe seat, not all that much happens''

"I wonder how much more we'd get if we were a swinging seat or we were on the margins"

For years, Labor has been able to rely on a swag of votes through Melbourne's west. But shifting boundaries and changing demographics suggest rusted-on Labor backers may have an appetite for fresh political voices to champion their communities.

06/07/2021

Victorian Labor voters and Ben Carroll MP get your deadly port freight away from our inner-city footpaths and onto rail now!

There has been another serious crash at the same Melbourne intersection where a truck hit and injured five pedestrians earlier this year.

30/06/2021

🌳 Inner-city seats have also had major boundary shifts, which will help the Victorian Greens retain Brunswick and make the party more competitive in FOOTSCRAY!

Senior Victorian minister Martin Pakula is left without a seat for next year's state election, after his electorate of Keysborough is abolished in a redistribution.

18/06/2021

More Monster trucks will now fill Footscray's residential streets for decades. Increasing locals risk of crushing death, painful lung cancer, childhood asthma and brain damage.

We need pollies that value the human life of the people of the inner west and the leadership skills to build a proper Freight Rail Network.

MAKE FOOTSCRAY MARGINAL

The Victorian Government is improving freight connections across the state and promoting the use of safer and cleaner vehicles with the expansion of the High Productivity Freight Vehicle (HPFV) network. The upgrades will save farmers, freight operators and businesses time and money and further encou...