Comments on: Unsafe as houses

By: Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:54:30 +0000

Is the Liberal candidate for Cook, the Dirk Wellham of Australian politics, sounds like he’s been to more clubs than Barry Crocker.

Member of the Labor Party, member of the Liberal Party, member of Canterbury-Bankstown and the Cronulla Sharks, being from Redfern did he ever cheer on the Bunnies. Maybe he should have spent the 30K he’s alleged to have used for “recruitment” to get membership to ever other NRL team, A-League, NBL club, and if he has global focus he’ll have to pick up a jersey of L.A. Lakers, Chicago Bulls, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool, Juventus, Barcelona, Middlesex Cricket Club, Canterbury Crusaders et al.

By: Slain

Slain — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:19:54 +0000

Yes Nostrils, the further Right the better I say, your beloved extreme right are electoral poison and a dominance will all but guarantee their political oblivion for many years to come.

By: Nostradamus

Nostradamus — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:51:33 +0000

I’m not surprised in the least that Petro Georgiou is unable to carry out his responsibilities of representing the community who have elected him.

Alex Hawke will be the next MP for Mitchell. Alex Lew for Kooyong!

By: bmwofoz

bmwofoz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:48:16 +0000

Petro Georgiou while loved by some small l types is seen as a do nothing local MP.

I know people whom have lived in the area for years and apart from a Budget time letter never see or hear from him.

He is somewhat of a dud

By: The Happy Revolutionary

The Happy Revolutionary — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:40:11 +0000

The Libs could possibly do with a few more Georgious.
With Rudd anxious to avoid a wedging, it gives the small ‘l’ Libs the chance to attack Labor from the left. It may sound bizarre, but voters have tuned out from all of the dog-whistling and fear campaigns. The Libs need to shed their ‘mean and tricky’ image, and could benefit from looking compassionate and caring on a few issues.

By: Nostradamus

Nostradamus — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:07:32 +0000

Kooyong bucked the trend and actually recorded an anti-Liberal swing for a very important reason: it has Petro Georgiou as its MP who takes dissenting views on a number of social issues and has quite rightly been labelled a “political terrorist” by rising star Sophie Mirabella. If he really wants to promote his renegade agendas he should do the right thing and stand as an independent.

By: bmwofoz

bmwofoz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:13:29 +0000

Interesting side note Goldstein unlike Kooyong and Higgins has actually moved toward the Liberals over the past Two elections.

By: bmwofoz

bmwofoz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:12:05 +0000

To answer Peter, yes it was Sandringham that Cain held in 1982, that same seat was reduced to a margin of about 2 -3 % after the 2001 State poll.

I’m not sure how the Boundary was drawn back in 1982 but in 2001 the bulk of the seat sat inside Goldstein.

By: SirEggo

SirEggo — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:56:09 +0000

I donâ€™t know if this is the forum I should be asking on, but can someone tell if Labor are running a candidate in Calare?

If I am on the wrong forum, can someone point me in the right way?

By: Peter Fuller

Peter Fuller — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:35:32 +0000

bmwofoz,
Sandringham (I’m not sure if it was called that at the time, but that was the geography of the electorate) was held for one term by State Labor at the beginning of the Cain years.
Personally I’ll be shocked if Goldstein swings, but in this climate who knows?