Swimming pools and surf life-saving clubs net grants in ultra-marginal Corangamite | katinacurtis swrighteconomy
shows Corangamite has been showered with more than $55.2 million. At the same time, the neighbouring seat of Corio, held by deputy Labor leader Richard Marles, got $7.66 million.shows Coalition-held or targeted seats were heavily favoured with major and minor projects.
At the time, the seat took in the sweep of Victoria’s surf coast and Otways, running from the Bellarine Peninsula to Apollo Bay and Castle Cove. A redistribution ahead of the 2022 election has almost halved the electorate, concentrating it around Geelong’s outskirts. Liberal candidate Stephanie Asher, the Greater Geelong mayor, takes credit in her campaign biography for the north Bellarine outdoor pool. The council is developing plans for a second stage of the same project, an indoor centre, for which it wants the federal and state governments to find $45 million.
Elsewhere in the seat, the Apollo Bay WinterWild festival got grants of more than $21,500 two years in a row, one to fund bus tours of the Otways and the other for a street parade. Another $10,000 went to the Surf Coast Shire Council to establish a public orchard at a Torquay playground. Several sailing and boating clubs also received funds to buy more vessels.
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