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Rohan Boehm, Narrabri’s Inde-
pendent Candidate for Barwon at
the March 28 State Elections, has
been busy since he announced he
was standing against the National’s
Kevin Humphries.
“Everywhere I’ve been people are
saying ‘we don’t want a member
who comes in and eats our lam-
ingtons and that’s the last you hear
of him’.”
“Country people have been ig-
nored for too long. They want their
voice back and I want to listen and
give them back control over their
own towns and farms.”
In Narrabri, Rohan’s been working
out how to turn around the neglect
of the past eight years.
“I’m finding that an inactive local
member from Moree has meant
that many vital issues for Narrabri
just don’t get addressed.”
“There are at least three unsafe
level rail crossings in the town and
one, which has already claimed a
life remains without signals. We
need better lit railway intersections
and better traffic management for
Narrabri.
“Better day care and pre-school
facilities for working families is a
State issue, and this has to be fixed
quickly to allow people to get into
work.
“Our towns are losing essential
services to government bureaucra-
cies. This means we’re losing many
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of the people that hold our com-
munities together,” he says.
“We’ve all seen country kids leav-
ing for the city because they can’t
find work or get the education
they want. What we really need to
do is invest in our schools and TAFE
for better opportunities for country
students.
“For too long there have been
urgent calls for increased funding
for front-line mental health teams
and specialised medical services in
town, and the drug epidemic that’s
sweeping many small towns is a
high-level issue for all of us.
“High unemployment creates fer-
tile ground for drug dealers selling
cheap drugs like ice.
“We need a state level enquiry to
know how we’re going to respond.
But meanwhile we need to address
the problem directly.”
Rohan says that Walgett Shire
Council, with its own employment
program, has shown the way.
“They’ve asked the government
for help and were ignored. I’d
have councils across this electorate
adopting similar schemes so we’d
see stronger communities.”
That goes for drought assistance as
well. As a former fifth-generation
farmer, Rohan understands first-
hand the impacts of drought.
“I was forced off my family farm
in Victoria by drought in the early
‘80s. This drove me to want to
support agricultural industries to
be more efficient and viable. I’ve
worked in every agricultural sector,
and I know the agriculturally-based
community needs a fair and trans-
parent system for drought relief.”
“But rebuilding our communities
needs to start in our backyard.
My vision is to make Narrabri into
northwest NSW’s major inland
port for agricultural products. We
urgently need this to make this re-
gion competitive on global markets
and also open up long term jobs.
“The idea is to put high capacity
grain through the system linked to
our major sea ports. We also need
to develop more value-added local
processing of agricultural products
in Narrabri. And we need ongoing
upgrades to link Narrabri to major
population centres and to roll out
the NBN to link us to the world.
Fast internet is essential for mod-
ern businesses and and that will be
part of my mission, to provide in-
tensive support for small business
in Narrabri. That will make for true
economic change. The biggest
cost is not doing it.”
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