Comments on: Forget Mayo, what about McEwen?

By: Bro Sheffield-Brotherton

Bro Sheffield-Brotherton — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Well may the Federal Nationals Leader, Warren Truss, have enjoyed a big victory in the Gippsland By-Election. He certainly worked hard at it, travelling all that way to hand out how to vote cards at the Yallourn North polling booth as part of a team of dozens of the Party faithful working the booth on the day (including at least two Victorian National MPs)

By: tony adams

tony adams — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I dont think the Gippsland outcome was ever going to be any different. The Nationals could have lined up a team of stuffed dummies to hand out HTV cards - they would have still romped in.
This is a seat with 4 National Party reps (or their predecessors) over the past 90 years.
With the traditional swing away from Government, a highly conservative electorate and a Labor candidate not playing the usual National Party sport of pork-rorting, the socialists were always going to cruise home.

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The McEwen decision is due to be handed down at 4.15 today in the Federal Court.