With both Easter and Anzac Day done and dusted, the focus returns to the May 21 federal election.
Tonight the candidates for the grand old seat of Werriwa head to the Hoxton Park Anglican Church, which is hosting an election forum.
Labor’s Anne Stanley, who was elected to Werriwa in 2016 and was re-elected at the 2019 election with a 5.5 percent margin, has accepted the invitation to attend.
When the ballot draw was conducted last week, Ms Stanley, pictured above at yesterday’s Anzac Day dawn service at Liverpool, received the number three spot, while her Liberal party opponent Sam Kayal is in fifth spot – second from last.
Mr Kayal is apparently the only candidate not appearing tonight, citing prior commitments.
A Melbourne Cup field has presented for Hume, the seat held by the energy minister Angus Taylor.
Seen as a future leader, Mr Taylor will be in seventh spot on the ballot paper, with nine candidates all up.
The ballot for Macarthur, the centre of the outer South Western Sydney region, has six candidates to choose from.
The seat is held by Labor’s Dr Mike Freelander, who first won it in 2016.
Dr Freelander, who currently holds it with a margin of 8.6 percent, received spot number three in the ballot draw.
Here’s how the ballot papers for the three electorates will look like on Saturday, May 21:
MACARTHUR:
- Jayden Rivera – The Greens
- Binod Paudel – Liberal Party
- Mike Freelander – Labor
- Rosa Antonia Sicari – UAP
- Scott Korman – Liberal Democratic Party
- Adam Zahra – Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
WERRIWA:
- Victor Tey – Liberal Democratic Party
- Tony Nikolic – United Australia Party
- Anne Stanley – Labor
- Apurva Shukla – Greens
- Sam Kayal – Liberal Party
- Adam Booke – Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
HUME:
- Greg Baines – Labor
- Gary Trevor Dollin – UAP
- Rebecca Thompson – Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
- Sheneli Meneripitiyage Dona – Independent
- Ross Edward Seller – Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party
- Karen Stewart – The Greens
- Angus Taylor – Liberal Party
- Joaquim Eduardo De Lima – Liberal Democratic Party
- Penny Ackery – Independent
Readers who are not sure which electorate they are in should visit the Australian Electoral Commission site.
Anybody attend?
Yes
Time to send Labor, Liberal and the Greens a strong message – we are fed up with their control freak tactics on free thinking Australians.
We will do our utmost to remove power from the major parties so the little people will have a say in “their” own nation via our constitution.