Month: October 2001

The party complexion of four seats still remains doubtful after counting in Saturday’s ACT election.

In Molonglo, Labor has three, the Liberals two and the Greens one. The remaining seat is a fight between the Democrats’ Jane Errey and the Liberals’ Helen Cross, with the Democrats’ favoured.

In Brindabella, Labor has two, the Liberals two and the last seat is a fight between the Democrats’ Jeanette Jolley and Labor’s Firstname (check) MacDonald, with the Democrats favoured.
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It appears the ACT is maturing politically.

Incidentally, who cares about ACT politics? Surely, all those who care whether their rates will double next year, a block of flats going up next year, joining car rego queues each year, whether enough industry will come to town to give our kids jobs.

Perhaps more people are realising that you cannot whinge and be apathetic at the same time and that you should not leave your interest in state-level politics to a knee-jerk vote once every three years.
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The Australian Democrats are attracting 18 per cent of the vote in the ACT federal Senate race, according to polling done in conjunction with the ACT election.

The Democrats are picking up a swag of support from people who indicated that they would be voting Labor or to a lesser extent Liberal in the House of Representatives.

Democrats candidate Wayne Seivers put it down to the Tampa refugee issue and the war in Afghanistan. He said that many otherwise-Labor people had said they had moved to the Democrats because of Labor’s position on these questions.
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Chief Minister Gary Humphries is willing to deal with the Democrats, offering a Ministry or a coalition, so the Liberals can stay in Government.

He told ABC radio that the previous Liberal administration had elevated Independent Michael Moore to the ministry and he was willing to deal again – “”from a full-scale coalition through to an informal membership of cabinet, which involved a capacity to separate from cabinet such as with Michael Moore, through to less formal relationships with other independents and crossbenchers”.

ACT Democrat candidate Jane Errey said all options were open, but party president Wayne Seivers said it was a ploy to damage the Democrats federal Senate campaign by painting the Democrats out to be closely aligned with the Liberal Party which was not the case.
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