In 2001, my then home Federal electorate (Gilmore, NSW South Coast) had the 'Candidate from Hell' - Peter Knott, running for the ALP, according to then Prime Minister, Paul Keating. Earlier that year I had moved to the Whitsundays, which is part of the Federal seat of Dawson.
Todays 'punch up' between the ALP Candidate, Mike Brunker, and Cyril Vains, President of the Bowen Turf Club, combined with revelations earlier this week that our LNP candidate, George Christensen edited a magazine with comments interpreted as anti homosexual and anti semetic while at Uni, has got me thinking . . . are we living in the 'Electorate from Hell'?
We have 'a murder of crows', 'flocks of sheep' and 'herds of cows' - any suggestions on what to call a collective of 'Candidates from Hell'?
I expect our 'two party' candidates will be laying very low this week, which will upset some who were expecting to use the last days of the election to score funds and browney points from the Big Two. An example was the very public appeal by Peter O'Reilly of Tourism Whitsundays in the Mackay Daily Mercury.
Tourism Whitsundays' very public aligning with ALP's 'Fighting' Mike Brunker looks like another bad call to add to a very long list of bad decisions and mismanagement failures by our RTO.
Ahhh, the Whitsundays . . . beautiful one day, Gilligans Island the next.
* The biggest winner out of all of this will be Greens candidate, Jonathon Dykyj.
Sources:
Whitsundays Online - Dawson - Election 2010
ABC News
The Australian
Brisbane Times
AAP
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