With only days to go, both candidates have sent in their final arguments as to why Blayney should vote for them.

ANDREW GEE:

"The overwhelming message I've had from voters in Blayney and around the region is that they want a government that can responsibly manage the economy and not mortgage the future of their kids or grandkids. You get that with a Coalition Government but with Bill Shorten you just get more debt. When John Howard left office the country had no net debt.

Health funding is going up not down with an increase in health spending of 11.6% since Labor was in power and an increase of 29.4% for hospitals  over the same period.

School funding is also going up. In the last budget schools got an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018, 2019 and 2020. The model of education funding I'll be pursuing in Canberra is one that only targets country schools, not city ones. Country funding needs to be prioritised.

I was also very pleased to recently announce that the Coalition Government is investing $1.5 million towards the upgrade of Browns Creek Road at Blayney."

JESS JENNINGS:

“A vote for Mr Turnbull, via Mr Gee, is a vote that will force Blayney workers to subsidise the Coalition’s unfair gift of $54 billion in tax cuts to major corporate businesses, including the big banks and overseas shareholders.

What’s worse is that 90% of Calare workers, just like most workers in Blayney, totally missed out on the Coalition’s income tax cut for people on over $80,000, which at the same time gave millionaires an incredibly unfair tax break of $16,715.

People must realise that Mr Turnbull is telling working families of Blayney to let their own living standards slide, in order to fund Mr Turnbull’s tax cuts to multinational corporations

That is outrageously unfair, and so anyone earning under $80,000 per year must vote Labor to keep their current way of life with decent access to health, education, better childcare support, and of course a real NBN that is needed to grow jobs for our region.

For vulnerable people in Blayney, such as pensioners Mr Turnbull will be a complete disaster, because he is already increasing the aged pension eligibility to 70 years as per Mr Abbott’s budget papers and massively cutting support to medical benefits.

And for the 345 local Blayney people with a severe disability, which is 6% above the  national average (based on the 2011 census), only Labor’s original National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will be good enough – not the Liberals down-graded version like they did to the NBN.”