JA back on track!


John Alexander is back on the campaign trail fulltime following the death and funeral of his beloved mother Thelma on Monday this week.


After a brief delay John Alexander will resume doorknocking the electorate today and has already personally doorknocked 3000 homes to date.


He also visits four shopping centres each Saturday and is anxious to talk with locals and hear their concerns about local issues.


Mr Alexander says he wants to focus on local issues where the federal government is involved.


The current Labor Government has funded inappropriate social housing where people have been badly treated and given just 30 days notice to vacate.


The federal government working in conjunction with the discredited state government is approving low quality social housing by bypassing local councils planning codes.


They are violating our democratic rights where we have elected local councils whose planning and development rules are being disregarded, he says.


This is a real travesty of justice being executed by the federal Labor government hand in hand with the Keneally Labor State Government.


In answer to criticism by incumbent Labor MP Maxine McKew that he does not live in the electorate Alexander said he has had a long associatioin with the Bennelong area.


He was responsible as managing director of what is now Next Generation at Ryde to have the Ryde Aquatic Centre established in time for use as the water polo venue for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.


He was also associated with Tennis World back in the 1970s.


Mr Alexander said he was attracted to politics by Dr Brendan Nelson when MP for Bradfield and Leader of the Opposition and by former prime minister and Bennelong MP John Howard.


He said they both said that the Liberal Party and politics generally needed people with real life experiences to develop policies and to help implement those policies.


Alexander has an active role in preventive medicines and a proven track record in healthy lifestyles through active recreation activities.


Regarding criticism that he does not live in the Bennelong electorate Alexander replies that he currently lives nearby a train station which is convenient for a son still going to school and a daughter attending university.


He is meantime looking at houses in the Bennelong electorate where he will move into as soon as practicable.


(Maxnine McKew was resident in Mosman when she was chosen by the Labor Party and parachuted into the electorate).

Courtesy of TWT