Scobie Team for Shire
Mayoral candidate Graham Scobie has announced his team of fellow independents for the Eurobodalla Shire Council Election on Saturday, 13 September. Residents and ratepayers will have the chance to vote directly for eleven candidates for Mayor as well as 46 candidates for the remaining 8 positions on Council. 36 of those candidates have linked themselves into 8 groups with the remaining 10 opting to cast their lot as ungrouped independents.
The Scobie team will be listed as Group C on the Ballot Paper in the following order: Graham Scobie, Michael Gold, Michelle Roberts and Jenny Butt. Graham Scobie has been a resident of the Eurobodalla Shire for just over 27 years. He established Scentertainment almost a decade ago after having worked in Country Energy for a dozen years. He also established a community email newsletter called the Moruya Voice two and a half years ago and it won a Moruya Business Award in 2006. He has also been President of Moruya Chamber of Commerce since 2006 and ran the Make It Moruya Kia Rio Campaign in 2008.
Michael Gold is President of Moruya Rotary Club and Moruya Historical Society and also owns the heritage listed Cheddar House in Moruya which was the former local cheese factory. Michael spent his working life in the army, merchant navy and working for the P & O Company where he rose to the rank of captain.
Michelle Roberts is a teacher, banking industry employee, businesswoman and also wife of Graham Scobie. She is President of St Mary’s Primary School Parents and Friends in Moruya as well as deputy chair of the school Board. She currently works part-time at both Narooma Primary School and the Commonwealth Bank and also runs her own business T4 Tutoring.
Jenny Butt and her husband Colin moved to the Eurobodalla in 2001 after being in business in Canberra for 25 years. In 1996 Jenny was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to drought-stricken farmers and in 2002 they established Foster A Calf in the Eurobodalla, also to assist farmers plagued by drought.
All members of the Scobie team for the Shire are committed workers for the community who each have a proven path of public service in a wide range of fields. They all believe that Councillors should have an existing track record of voluntary work in the Shire to better be able to represent the residents and ratepayers of the Eurobodalla.
Election comment authorized by Graham Scobie, PO Box 87, Moruya