A TAFE student who went on to become a teacher at the tertiary level,Belyea has also worked in small business. She has a child in high school.
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In 2018,she founded a volunteer-led group known as the Women’s Spirit Project,which offers health and wellbeing programs for vulnerable women in the Frankston,Kingston and Mornington Peninsula council areas.
Labor holds the seat by a margin of 6 per cent,but party figures expect a swing against the government,predicting cost-of-living issues will remain top of mind in mortgage-belt suburbs such as Carrum Downs.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will also be under pressure after the Coalitionlost the Melbourne seat of Aston – another mortgage-belt area – in early 2023. It was the first time in a century that a sitting government won a seat from the opposition party.