{"id":17043,"date":"2018-09-26T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2019-09-24T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:07:20","slug":"kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY ALAN MARINI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FORMER radio journalist Andrew Kilmartin has been selected as the Liberal candidate for Buninyong at the November state election.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kilmartin worked at 3BA as well as other radio stations and has also worked in politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three things I would like to see happen are energy prices \u2013 there are too many families struggling. I spoke to a woman in Sebastopol and she was telling me how she had to cut her gas off because it was too expensive. She is now filling up the bathtub with the kettle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnergy prices have gone up 85 per cent in less than two years and my community can\u2019t keep up with that. That is my main priority \u2013 to make that more affordable for people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other thing people are concerned about in Ballarat is rise in crime. It\u2019s up 11.9 per cent since the Andrew\u2019s Government got in, in 2014. We having falling police numbers here, there 18 less front line police in Ballarat. People are also sick of the police arresting people and then they give the magistrates a sob story and get a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main concern of Buninyong is that they don\u2019t have a 24 hour police station and if Ballarat is busy they can\u2019t get cops out here and we have the Midland Highway, which often has accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also tough for surrounding towns like Haddon, Meredith, Elaine, Linton \u2013 when these places need a cop at night time they often have to come from Bacchus Marsh. I want to push for more police in this area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other thing is we need to push for a by-pass of Buninyong. We need to push VicRoads for some options soon. That\u2019s a huge issue for Buninyong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his door knocking of the Buninyong electorate Mr Kilmartin said he was told on many occasions that they have not seen a politician at their door for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat tells me that the seats have been take for granted for a long time,\u201d he added. \u201cI am out there trying to talk to people and discus issues, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labor\u2019s Geoff Howard currently holds the seat, which was first contested in 2014, although after 19 years in parliament he is not contenting the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>The margin of victory after preferences at that election was 1.6 per cent. The ALP candidate this time around is Michaela Settle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ALAN MARINI FORMER radio journalist Andrew Kilmartin has been selected as the Liberal candidate for Buninyong at the November state election. Mr Kilmartin worked at 3BA as well as other radio stations and has also worked in politics. \u201cThe three things I would like to see happen are energy prices \u2013 there are too [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":17044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-17043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kilmartin to run for Buninyong - Ballarat Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong - Ballarat Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BY ALAN MARINI FORMER radio journalist Andrew Kilmartin has been selected as the Liberal candidate for Buninyong at the November state election. Mr Kilmartin worked at 3BA as well as other radio stations and has also worked in politics. \u201cThe three things I would like to see happen are energy prices \u2013 there are too [...]Read More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ballarat Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-26T02:28:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-09-24T05:07:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/09\/aaaa-25.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"571\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"475\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Ballarat Times\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Ballarat Times\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Ballarat Times\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4301f908d92f821f2752c965ef566687\"},\"headline\":\"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-26T02:28:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-09-24T05:07:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":405,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/prod\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/aaaa-25.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Featured\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/\",\"name\":\"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong - Ballarat Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/prod\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/aaaa-25.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-26T02:28:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-09-24T05:07:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/prod\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/aaaa-25.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/prod\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/aaaa-25.png\",\"width\":571,\"height\":475,\"caption\":\"Hat in the ring: Andrew Kilmartin has been pre-selected as the Liberal candidate for the seat of Buninyong at the next state election. Photo: ALAN MARINI\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/news\\\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ballarat Times\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ballarat Times\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/prod\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/BALT.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/prod\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/BALT.png\",\"width\":739,\"height\":98,\"caption\":\"Ballarat Times\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4301f908d92f821f2752c965ef566687\",\"name\":\"The Ballarat Times\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\\\/ballarat\\\/author\\\/ballarattimes\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong - Ballarat Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong - Ballarat Times","og_description":"BY ALAN MARINI FORMER radio journalist Andrew Kilmartin has been selected as the Liberal candidate for Buninyong at the November state election. Mr Kilmartin worked at 3BA as well as other radio stations and has also worked in politics. \u201cThe three things I would like to see happen are energy prices \u2013 there are too [...]Read More...","og_url":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/","og_site_name":"Ballarat Times","article_published_time":"2018-09-26T02:28:12+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-09-24T05:07:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":571,"height":475,"url":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/09\/aaaa-25.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"The Ballarat Times","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Ballarat Times","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/"},"author":{"name":"The Ballarat Times","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#\/schema\/person\/4301f908d92f821f2752c965ef566687"},"headline":"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong","datePublished":"2018-09-26T02:28:12+00:00","dateModified":"2019-09-24T05:07:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/"},"wordCount":405,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/09\/aaaa-25.png","articleSection":["Featured","News"],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/","url":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/","name":"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong - Ballarat Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/09\/aaaa-25.png","datePublished":"2018-09-26T02:28:12+00:00","dateModified":"2019-09-24T05:07:20+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/09\/aaaa-25.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/09\/aaaa-25.png","width":571,"height":475,"caption":"Hat in the ring: Andrew Kilmartin has been pre-selected as the Liberal candidate for the seat of Buninyong at the next state election. Photo: ALAN MARINI"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/kilmartin-to-run-for-buninyong\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kilmartin to run for Buninyong"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#website","url":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/","name":"Ballarat Times","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#organization","name":"Ballarat Times","url":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/10\/BALT.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/10\/BALT.png","width":739,"height":98,"caption":"Ballarat Times"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/#\/schema\/person\/4301f908d92f821f2752c965ef566687","name":"The Ballarat Times","url":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/author\/ballarattimes\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=17043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}