With the election finalised, who should be considering their future?

cmdwedge said :

johnboy said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Didn’t Seslja do the same thing in Brindabella???

Seselja’s secondary candidates all did much better.

And throughout the campaign I got a much bigger sense of the rest of the team from the Liberals rather than Labor’s “Katy Katy Katy”.

Yup, I’m certain I saw ‘Angie Drake for Team Katy’ on a corflute at Coolo a couple of times. The Molonglo Labor peeps were really pegging their elctoral hopes on Katy, not the party. Zed’s team didn’t try to hide behind his coattails, we knew Zed would get in and everyone else on the ticket got equal airtime and support.

Angie Drake for Team Katy? lol! Didn’t see that – sounds like she was pre-selected solely to get more publicity for Katy – though hardly surprising given the CFMEU connection.

Anyway, thanks for clarifying.

To be fair on Steve Doszpot, he had changed electorates and while he did have some name recognition, there were a lot of voters in Molonglo that just didn’t know who he was.

With the amount of advertising that both Elizabeth and Giulia did, that job was only going to be harder for Steve. Giulia came out strong with the signs and advertising very early in the campaign and never showed any sign of letting up.

As soon as signs were stolen/damaged/removed, they were replaced with new ones. I’d hate to think how much of her own money she threw at the campaign, but it wasn’t by any means trivial.

Elizabeth too, had a lot of advertising throughout the whole campaign, whereas I did notice Steve – despite having the advantage of being an existing MLA – didn’t advertise anywhere near as much as the other two. It was always going to be difficult for him under both those circumstances.

As for Brendan’s 0.4 quota, I think that the “cult of personality” that Johnboy talked about came into effect with Zed and to say he should retire simply because of the low primary vote I think doesn’t take into account the whole story.

Anyone, no matter how “good” a candidate they might be, will always suffer when you have a strong leader in the same electorate. Zed campaigned as hard as Katy did. Everytime you turned on the TV, you’d either see Zed or Katy. He was always going to get close to 2 quotas in his own right – just as Katy did. But over half of Zed’s primaries went straight through to Brendan once his prefererences were distributed. It’s exactly the same thing as happened to the Labor Party in Molonglo (look at Andrew Barr and his 0.3 quota).

Just my 2c.

johnboy said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Didn’t Seslja do the same thing in Brindabella???

Seselja’s secondary candidates all did much better.

And throughout the campaign I got a much bigger sense of the rest of the team from the Liberals rather than Labor’s “Katy Katy Katy”.

Yup, I’m certain I saw ‘Angie Drake for Team Katy’ on a corflute at Coolo a couple of times. The Molonglo Labor peeps were really pegging their elctoral hopes on Katy, not the party. Zed’s team didn’t try to hide behind his coattails, we knew Zed would get in and everyone else on the ticket got equal airtime and support.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Didn’t Seslja do the same thing in Brindabella???

Seselja’s secondary candidates all did much better.

And throughout the campaign I got a much bigger sense of the rest of the team from the Liberals rather than Labor’s “Katy Katy Katy”.

cmdwedge said :

Great write-up, JB. Agree with the lot of it. Particularly Corbell, he should leave on his own terms, but the Team Katy voter blackhole sucked away so many primary vote in Molonglo for other talented Laborites.

Didn’t Seslja do the same thing in Brindabella???

Chic hooning around Belconnen in a big convertible with a couple of bikini models throwing Woodstock cans to grateful bogans would have been a beautiful thing.

Still wouldn’t have swayed my vote but the sheer awenessness of this idea is a thing of beauty.

Rack off, Thumper! I want Chic to stand in Molonglo next time. He’ll get my vote, no sweat.

Is the ACT Government transparent about its superannuation arrangements? Have the Greens over the years attempted to keep superannuation payments reasonable?

How much will they all get? Anyone know?

Comparisons based on first preference votes are of very limited usefulness. For example, although Simon Corbell received only 0.2 quotas on the first preferences, he had a very strong preference flow from Katy Gallagher.

Essentially this means “Out of everyone who didn’t vote for Katy, Simon wasn’t as popular as Meegan.”, but since so many people voted for Katy, how is this a relevant statistic? Surely it is unsurprising that if you didn’t vote 1 for the CM, you’re probably less likely to vote 1 for one of her Ministers too?

In terms of Chris Bourke, it’s worth pointing out that if he had taken a greater share of the Labor vote from Berry, then it’s likely that Hunter would have gotten back in instead. Having the Labor vote evenly split among those candidates was a blessing for Labor (it’s always in a party’s interest to have their vote distributed evenly, so that their candidates are eliminated as late as possible).

Simon should start looking for a new career .. I don’t mean to labour a point but ffs, he didn’t even make an effort! There were 4 other labour candidates who ran genuine campaigns and who missed out because someone who barely scraped 1000 primary votes got in on 1) Katy’s preferences and 2) his name ..

Other than that, I think new faces in the Assembly – from any party – are a good thing; fresh ideas, lots of passion and more spunk!

Make that CTP insurance.