AT TWENTY-five years of age, Jessie Kiley is the youngest candidate running in the 2012 Swan Hill Rural City Council election.
Also one of only two women running for a place, Ms Kiley said council should be a representative cross-section of the community.
“I think it would be exciting to see someone young on council because there’s so many young people in Swan Hill,” she said.
“I plan to be here for a long time and I want to live in a good town.”
Having grown up in Murray Downs the newlywed is well aware of issues within the municipality, and now lives in a self-renovated home in Swan Hill with her husband.
Her original interest in running for council came from her opposition to the 9a proposal for the Swan Hill bridge.
“To me the whole argument isn’t about where it’s going — it’s about our future,” she said.
“It’s taken [decades] to get this bridge… so we need to do it right.”
For more of this story see today’s (October 3, 2012) Guardian.
