By Jack Sumner 15 July 2013 I am told that since his selection as Labor candidate for Bennelong, Jeff Salvestro-Martin has worked hard on the development of campaign plans. Whatever they are, even his most ardent supporters and certainly the ALP powerbrokers in Sussex Street hadn’t believed they would be successful. Then on 27 June Rudd […]
@gemoo4 in conversation with Labor’s Higgins candidate Wesa Chau
July 11, 2013
By Georgie Moore 11 July 2013 The first piece on Higgins: Costello country: Higgins by @gemoo4 This is the first of a series of Q&As, where I talk personal and party politics with the candidates for the Higgins electorate. Next, I will speak with Greens candidate James Harrison. Georgie: So Wesa, how did you get into politics? […]
@willsmore298 report on Rick Sarre ALP candidate for Sturt
July 11, 2013
By Shane Willsmore 7 July 2013 Shane Willsmore first report: Reporting democracy in the seat where I live: @willsmore298 in Sturt Rick Sarre is the ALP Candidate for the federal seat of Sturt, in the east/north east of the glorious city of Adelaide. The current sitting member is the ever smiling Mr Christopher Pyne, and has been […]
Bennelong: Preliminary skirmishing
July 8, 2013
By Jack Sumner July 8 2013 Murat owns Café Centro, which sits in the middle of Eastwood Plaza at the heart of the Bennelong electorate. As he made my long black this morning, I asked whether he’d seen much political activity in and around his shop. His reply – “no nothing yet”- indicated to me […]
@preciouspress: Will there be a battle for Bennelong?
July 1, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Seat profile By Jack Sumner 1 July 2013 I never knew the grandfather who died down a Barnsley mine but I do remember fondly the Grandpa who had spun cotton, breathed its dust and died of byssinosis age 61. My Dad was a […]
Costello country: Higgins by @gemoo4
June 24, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Higgins Seat Profile by Georgie Moore 24th June 2013 One of the Liberal Party’s safest Victorian seats, Higgins (formed in 1948—49) has hosted a string of high-profile representatives: including Harold Holt (1949—1967), John Gorton (1968—1975) and Peter Costello (1990—2009). With incumbent MP Kelly O’Dwyer […]
Bellwether Eden-Monaro: @MargaretOConno5 reports
June 21, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Seat Profile by Margaret O’Connor 21 June 2013 For someone who these days would be sneered at by certain columnists as being a café-latte and chardonnay drinking member of the chattering classes, my background sure doesn’t fit the template. I grew up on […]
RuddWatch: @JanBowQLD sets the scene in Griffith
June 19, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Seat profile by Jan Bowman 19 June 2013 From the well-to-do apartment blocks of Kangaroo Point and the entertainment and culture hub of South Brisbane to the tin and timber Queenslanders of East Brisbane, Coorparoo and Greenslopes, Griffith is a diverse inner […]
Hills alive with sounds of Libs planning government: @AlisonParkes Mitchell report
June 18, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Mitchell Seat profile by Alison Parkes Mitchell hills alive with sounds of Liberal music: seat report by @AlisonParkes Mitchell is in Sydney’s outer metropolitan North West. Once rural and semi rural, it is experiencing the rapid development of subdivisions, dormitory suburbs and […]
Reporting democracy in the seat where I live: @willsmore298 in Sturt
June 15, 2013
View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Sturt seat profile by Shane Willsmore June 15, 2013 Paul Kelly grew up in the seat of Sturt. His song Adelaide – Kensington Road runs straight for a while before turning. We lived on a bend, it was here we were raised and […]
