Morwell, once recognised as the centre of Victoria’s electricity and forestry industries, is a region at the forefront of this century’s existential crisis and a battle at the heart of the Labor Party’s identity crisis | Report by sumeyyailanbey
, but Cameron and Liberal candidate Dale Harriman say the transition from coal to renewable energy “needs to be controlled”.
Harriman says Morwell can’t afford to lose the native timber industry and says Labor’s announcement three years ago has already had a “huge, huge” impact on the area. Harriman ran for the Liberals at the last election and polled 12 per cent of the primary, compared to the Nationals’ Sheridan Bond who received a primary vote of just 10 per cent.
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