Ms McKay grew up in Gloucester which is also part of the electorate and has recognised the "diversity" of industries in the Upper Hunter including agriculture and horse studs. "They don't do it because they want to damage the environment, they do it because they're paying the mortgage." "We have to make sure that we respect each and every person that walks into a coal mine. "We have to protect the jobs that are here," Ms McKay said. She says Mr Drayton is the "right person" for a by-election which she believes will be focused on mining jobs in the area. Opposition Leader Jodi McKay was in Singleton with the candidate to launch Labor's campaign. "And I'm going to fight bloody hard to make sure that does." "Every time I open the newspaper or every time I turn the TV on I see somebody having a go at coal miners and that has to stop. "I'm a coal miner and a proud coal miner," he said. Mr Drayton's candidacy was announced on his 51st birthday. In 1945 he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in Ottawa, Canada, returning to England in 1953. Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. The CFMEU official from Muswellbrook will contest the seat at next month's crucial by-election where Labor will attempt to defeat the Nationals, who have held the seat for 90 years. Geoffrey Drayton (born 13 February 1924) is a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist.
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