Monique Ryan calls Amelia Hamer on investment properties; Launch of the Zoe Daniel campaign, Julian Hill hits Hustings in Bruce

While Dutton and Albanian spent the weekend crossing the country, Julian Hill passed him through Bruce.

It was a Saturday full of jams for the Labor candidate and the parliamentarian, who started with an Easter egg hunt in Dandenong, then faded an event of the Sri Lanka community before meeting us at Hampton Park for a little football of the community.

It was the doves against the redbacks, and a loyal supporter of the doves: Hill dodged a photo with the winning team, the Hampton Park’s Redbacks, which seems to be outside his electorate. “I have to fully have!”

Also in tow was the mayor of Casey Stefan Koomen, who was in a precarious position while his council area covers both teams. “I’m thinking of getting a scarf of both mesh teams together,” he said, smiling but serious.

Hill spoke with the people of the place in the history of the FL and met the president of the Doveton Soccer Daniel Mcminimee, whose club has recently benefited from about $ 200,000 in federal funding to update the structures.

“The first time we had lights on the ground since it was built,” he said. “I’m a fan of Julian.”

Hill says that political comments are not good on weekends, but makes an “evidence -based” exception: “Basically for 10 years, the entire city of Greater Dandenong has literally obtained anything from the federals, literally nothing, because every program of subsidies has been sung by pig and rorted”.

Hill aims at $ 7.5 million data in Dieton Pool by the current governmentwho was assigned after encouraging the community to submit a subsidy application with a business case. “I did not give everything the community wants, but I can say that we have delivered programs, all according to the needs.”

After a quick patly with a dusty ridgeback of the puppy, and jump in exchange for a photo with the Players of Oveton, he returned to the journey.

The next stop is 10 minutes by car.

Stubbies’ holders and sausages are replaced with charcoal meats and Hiker’s hands at the Narwoz Festival, also known as the Afghan New Year, held in a Hallam park.

Hill was asked to make a speech at the last minute, so he sat and started touching the phone. Politicians of all persuasions sat in the front row, including the Victorian liberal deputy Ann-Marie Hermans, the Labor State Labor Lee Tarlamis and the Green candidate for Bruce, Rhonda Garad.

“It must be the electoral year, with all the politicians here,” said the MC on the crowd.

In his speech, Hill said Narwoz was an ancient celebration and time for renewal.

“Narwoz Mubarak everyone!” he said. “Eid Mubarak to our Muslim brothers and sisters!”

Hill praised Australian democracy and said that the imminent federal election was a reminder of “how lucky we are to live in a democracy in which we have the great privilege of voting and choosing our governments”.

“Most people in the world don’t do it,” he said.

“I am asked in my role: what is an Australian? An Australian, for me, is engaged in our country and for the principle of mutual respect for their Australian companions.

“When you come to this country, nobody expects you to leave your culture to the door. On the contrary. Australia encourages people to celebrate their culture, to love traditions and transmit them to their children.”

“While we can celebrate our freedom, save a thought for people in Afghanistan at this time when Narwoz is prohibited. And to women and girls who are not even allowed to show their faces or to be seen in society.”

Bruce hosts the largest Afghan community of Victoria and these elections will be an influential electoral base.

The liberal candidate of Afghan origin Zahid Safi could not be seen during the event. The Victorian leader of the Liberal Opposition Brad Battin was the party representative in the list of speakers.

“Julian, we continue to meet at the events. It’s nice to see you again here. It’s nice to be out with you,” Battin said to the crowd, before praising the event and the community.

“We must have events like this, in which people of all the colors of our persuasion in our democracy come here together.”

Sitting next to me among the crowd there was the Pashto-teacher Bahanita Danish. He said that Safi could be nervous to participate after being decorated at the beginning of the week at the Moschea Dieton. The Danish will vote for these elections for Safi, he said, after visiting his school in recent months.

“It’s very kind,” he said. “I think the change is coming.”

Elsewhere in the crowd, a young man named Ahmed Ahmedi said “for now” he will vote on what he said was a better record on immigration. “Because it is good for people from abroad,” he said. “Good for immigration.”

But he said he had to know more, since there was a bad “court decision” that he had heard of, but he could not develop further.

Labor’s response to the ruling of the High Court who found that indefinite possession was illegal, including a fewer number of rights for detainees and the most severe deportation laws, has been criticized by human rights groups such as Draconians.

Saturday on Hustings would not be complete without a child’s head being kissed. Hill was chatting with a young mother on the sidelines of the cultural event, who left his child excited to the politician for a pampering.

“I love children,” he said, to smile all around. “It’s so pretty.”