Caulfield electorate
David SOUTHWICK (Caulfield) (09:36): It is an honour to be re-elected into the 60th Parliament in what was a tough battle, and I am very pleased with the 2 per cent swing in Caulfield. Our campaign was and always will be about making Caulfield and our area better together. Our success was a team effort, and I want to thank the 300-plus volunteers; the 400 residents that displayed my signs; a special thankyou to my family Hayley, Tyler and Paige and my mother-in-law Judy Rose, who did not leave pre-poll; my staff Jane Rapke, Patrick Irwin, Will Murphy, Hila Kwait, Peumike Dissanayake and Abby Levy; some stand-out volunteers, campaign director Andy Gordon, SEC chair Joel Silver, Daniel King, Miaosheng Yang, Harry Shardey, Daniel Weil, Debbie Thomas, Peter Wessner, Luke Vasquez, Ari Kalmek, David Jaffe, Adir Shiffman, Rosanna Ferrucci, Inna Zaitseva, David Wilde; and our interns Danah Akritidis, Alex Argyropoulos, Samuel Morgan and Tatijana Dobric. We will continue to fight for better schools, we will continue to fight for a hospital development at Caulfield, we will continue to look at ensuring that we get a fair deal when it comes to planning laws and open space and we will continue to make Caulfield better together. Thank you very much to all of those residents that supported us in ensuring we were re-elected to make Caulfield the best place to live.