Mornington Peninsula Shire Council:What your candidates said
Victorian council elections

Mornington Peninsula Shire Council:What your candidates said

Voters on the Mornington Peninsula will choose 11 people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • byCara Waters andRachael Dexter

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Barbara Rimington received in-home care from Mornington Peninsula council until it handed the service to a private provider and told her it would be monitoring her situation. “Pig’s arse they are,” she says.

  • byCara Waters