A little extra polling:
• The Australian on Tuesday provided an extra finding from the weekend Newspoll: that opposition to reforming Section 44 has hardened since August, when Barnaby Joyce’s difficulty first emerged. Fifty-one per cent now believe dual citizens should be disqualified from parliament, up seven, with 38% opposed, down five. Forty-six per cent opposed a referendum being held on the matter, with 43% in support.
By-election latest:
• Western Australia’s Darling Range state by-election will be held on June 23. Nathan Hondros of Fairfax reports the Liberal preselection, which will be determined by the party’s state council on Saturday, will be contested by Alyssa Hayden, who unexpectedly lost her upper house seat for East Metropolitan region to One Nation in 2017, and Rob Coales, a police sergeant and Serpentine-Jarrahdale councillor. The early mail was that Coales was favourite, but according to Hondros, it is “understood party powerbrokers are supporting Ms Hayden”.
• David Crowe of Fairfax reports the date for the Super Saturday by-elections could be pushed back to July 7, as the government looks at an Australian Electoral Commission recommendation to implement an online tool for candidates to lodge declarations and supporting documentation, so as to avoid further issues arising from Section 44. This had caused initial plans for a date of June 16 to be scotched, although concerns linger about the electoral impact of an eight-week campaign.
• Speaking of, Michael McKenna of The Australian reports the Liberal National Party preselection for Longman is being held off until next Tuesday to ensure frontrunner Trevor Ruthenberg was able to clear up his own Section 44 issue, arising from his being born in Papua New Guinea.
• Georgia Downer has emerged unopposed for Liberal preselection in Mayo. The Australian reports “ambitious conservative” Michael van Dissel was another potential nominee, but withdrew as it became clear the Right was solid behind Downer. In contrast to the Liberals in WA, Labor will be contested Mayo, despite never having held hte saet before. A Labor source quoted by Philip Coorey said the party believed its preferences could assist Rebekha Sharkie, and that failing to run would suppress the party’s Senate vote at the next election.
• Braddon will again be contested for the Liberals by Brett Whiteley, who held the seat from 2013 until his defeat by Labor’s Justine Keay in 2016, and served in the state seat of Braddon from 2002 until his defeat in 2010. The Burnie Advocate reports former McDonald’s licensee Craig Brakey and Wynyard RSL president Gavin Pearce also contested the state executive vote, but Whiteley was chosen unanimously.
• The Western Australian Liberals’ decision to forfeit the Perth by-election, said to have been instigated by Matthias Cormann, has been widely criticised in the party. Following Tim Hammond’s resignation announcement on May 1, Christian Porter told Sky News Australia the party would “undoubtedly” run, and state Opposition Leader Mike Nahan, who had mocked Labor’s unsurprising decision not to field a candidate in the recent by-election for Colin Barnett’s old seat of Cottesloe, said the by-election was “one we need to contest”.
• The Western Australian Greens have announced their by-elections candidates: Caroline Perks, senior sustainability officer at the City of Perth, in Perth; and Dorinda Cox, domestic violence campaigner and former police officer, in Fremantle.
Other preselection news:
• Jane Prentice’s preselection defeat in her Brisbane seat of Ryan has roused controversy over the lack of gender balance in the Coalition. The winner was Julian Simmonds, a Brisbane councillor who once worked on Prentice’s staff when she herself was on council. Simmons, who is identified with the Right, won a local party ballot by 256 votes to 103 over Prentice, a moderate and early backer of Malcolm Turnbull. Charlie Peel of The Australian reports the vote was “roughly split along traditional party lines, with Nationals backing Ms Prentice”. Critics of the decision include Campbell Newman, Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch and Capricornia MP Michelle Landry.
• Jared Owens of The Australian reports Ian Macdonald and Barry O’Sullivan, who respectively hold Queensland Senate seats for the Liberals and the Nationals, face preselection challenges from Scott Emerson, the former state Shadow Treasurer who lost his seat of Maiwar to the Greens last November, and Susan McDonald, managing director of a chain of butcher’s shops and a member of “one of Queensland’s grazing families”.
• Michael Owen of The Australian reports on a “strong challenge” for Liberal Senate preselection in South Australia from Alex Antic, an Adelaide councillor. This apparently poses a threat to another female Liberal MP, Anne Ruston, who might otherwise be expected to lead the ticket, but not to the mooted number two candidate, David Fawcett. It might also endanger Lucy Gichuhi’s hold on number three, long shot proposition though that may be.
Late Riser
My first visit started in LA. I expected ‘Carmageddon’ but totally shocked at drivers stopping if I looked like I wanted to cross the road. But then it was Wiltshire Boulevard in LA so they were probably worried about despoiling the paint work of their chopped Rollers. That and it being a loooooooong time ago.
Late Riser:
I barely survived Chicago. No way I’d cope in LA!
this is long before my time, but I remember stories of the 1950s and the Korean War, wool reach an all time high, a pound for a pound.
Now:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-18/wool-soars-to-unthinkable-highs-as-it-hits-20-dollars-a-kilogram/9775702
Australia’s woolgrowers are about to hit a milestone many thought was unthinkable even a few years ago, with prices set to burst through $20 a kilogram.
Key points:
Wool’s benchmark Eastern Market Indicator is expected to hit a record $20/kg at next week’s auction
High demand from China and flat supplies will keep the price high for some time.
Concerns are mounting the price is approaching a tipping point for foreign buyers
A combination of high demand from Chinese mills and flat supplies of wool at auction has seen prices rise 10 per cent since Easter and roughly double over the past 5 years.
Confessions @ #592 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 6:25 pm
It may appear to in some ways but in reality it doesn’t especially as more cars appear on the roads.
For example it can often be dangerous walking on the footpath as riders have no problem with using it as another lane, then there’s riding/driving on the wrong side and also the fatality rate, from reliable estimates, is huge.
Confessions @ #600 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 9:41 pm
I adapted and did OK. Mostly what I learned was to not generalise. I’m not good at it BTW. People are people.
Barney:
I’ll have to take your word for it seeing as I don’t live there and have no day to day experience like you do.
🙂
I’m more interested in what Team Mueller has to say about this than motor mouth Rudy.
poroti @ #581 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 9:09 pm
I agree absolutely with that. So how can different peoples fight and kill each other?
Confessions @ #604 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 6:51 pm
I’m not disagreeing with your experiences, just saying there’s more to it. 🙂
Barney in Go Dau @ #587 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 9:20 pm
I was about to cross a busy road in Indonesia when an Aussie ex-pat gave me a piece of advice. “Always make sure there is one of them between you and the oncoming traffic.”
I followed the advice thereafter.
poroti: Maybe LA was to you what Seattle was to me, a kinder time? That’s the other lesson. Change happens.
But. Definitely going now. Good night.
bemused @ #606 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 6:53 pm
Because they don’t make the decision, it’s normally someone else telling them what to do!! 🙁
guytaur @ #303 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 2:08 pm
Thanks Guytaur, that really brings home how hard it is for gay couples to simply show affection for their partners in public. Something other couples do automatically a gay couple have to consider so many other factors. It must be truly horrible to not be able to give your partner a kiss in public or put your arm around him or simply hold hands.
Barney:
We traveled from south to north and I found the Vietnamese motorists to be much more respectful and polite than their Australian counterparts. And this was regardless of whether we were in cities or country / rural areas.
The Waters family lived just over the ridge from the valley I grew up in. Troy was the local boy made good, becoming a famous boxer – but that is only a small part of his and his siblings story.
RIP Troy.
guytaur @ #351 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 3:01 pm
Not only the LGBTIQ community but I as a non believer in any god/spirit/supreme being would like to know how this will affect me ASAP.
bemused
You will need to ask the politicians ‘high priests’ and ‘royalty’ that. Then ask why the peasantry have not yet learnt not to listen to them. Which comes back to the 50 flavours of Rupert Murdoch the world seems eternally infested with.
Confessions @ #612 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 7:00 pm
Very different outside Hanoi and HCMC but they’re improving the highways, so people are travelling faster and accidents are correspondingly more serious.
It’s one benefit of most of HCMC, you’re rarely travelling very fast.
Watering down Russian-GOP collusion 101:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/17/rudy-giuliani-just-watered-down-trumps-russia-collusion-denial-yet-again/?utm_term=.c51bdeb83972
Confessions
“Russian Collusion”remains a “nothing burger” . Trump is gawd awful but he is a perfect representation of the US as it is today. A symptom not a cause.
What was the Potato and Border Farce doing when this was going on?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/18/greyhound-racing-nsw-charges-trainer-with-unauthorised-export-of-120-dogs
poroti @ #618 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 10:24 pm
Absolutely
The issue is not that Trump is bad, but that he was elected. He is symbolic of deep US malaise
poroti:
Nothing burger? You are sadly mistaken.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/one-year-robert-mueller-russia-investigation-special-counsel/index.html
And Manafort’s son in law has recently cut a plea deal and is cooperating with authorities. We learned the other day that the FBI has been investigating the Trump campaign for collusion since the actual campaign, not since Trump’s election. This is not a ‘nothing burger’ unless you subscribe to the Fox News take on events.
Confessions
The word “collusion” is thrown about like confetti. What has he ‘colluded’ with Russia over ?
I’ve been to LA. Twice. God it was depressing.
First time I got there by train. Had a late evening flight from LAX so I decided to go for a walk.
First thing I noticed was that (with exceptions) there weren’t any footpaths.
Second thing was people living in cardboard boxes a stones throw from the “CBD”.
I headed south and ended up finding myself walking alongside a huge soulless concrete drain. Which I later recognised as a location in the Terminator 2 movie. Past slaughterhouses. One after another. Not far from the city I might add. Then a lady truck driver pulled over and offered to call a cab for me “You don’t want to be here after dark”. About 6 weeks later I found out that this was the setting for the LA riots.
Then it came to taking a taxi to LAX. Which I’m glad I left plenty of time for. The driver (wisely) told me that the freeways were too clogged and did the rat run. Wow.. that was fun.
Second time I went to LAX it was to meet a friend. I started off in Burbank airport and took the bus from around the corner. For an hour the bus travelled without turning, straight down a long, straight road, that went on for 15 miles without a change of scenery. Suburbia. The occasional retail. More suburbia.. etc. The depressing part is even after this epic journey I’d only see a tiny bit of LA’s sprawl.
A few years later there was a movie called Volcano. Lava poured through the CBD of LA.
I cheered.
I do believe the Coalition can win this election, if only the following occurs which includes delaying the election until May 2019, as David Llewellyn-Smith writes on the Macrobusiness blog.
Via Paul Kelly today:
The fascinating story of Bill Shorten is the rising tide of audacity and risk that simultaneously surrounds his leadership — the more the Opposition Leader tries to set the agenda, the more he raises doubts about his credibility and offers opponents a generous target.
So far this has worked for Shorten. He has made himself a big target, not nearly as big as John Hewson did with Fightback! in the prelude to the 1993 election, but Shorten runs the most adventurous policy of any opposition leader since then.
It is fascinating because Shorten is no novice at judging the risks. He is a tough, calculating and cynical political animal breaking from the norms of opposition leadership. But Shorten transcends mere adventurous policy.
Using the “fair go” framework, he commits to a project of redistribution creating vast new legions of winners and losers, the former in majority but the latter a hefty minority, which gives his opponents the chance to ruin him.
…Shorten is an effective and tireless campaigner, as he proved in 2016. Yet there is a record of opposition leaders tarnished with longevity in the job. The polls point to serious public reservations about Shorten despite Labor’s lead. There is a powerful and systemic government campaign to be mounted against Shorten based on credibility and character. This campaign almost writes itself. Whether the government can write it is another matter.
No reforms that Labor has proposed can take him down in my view. They are well-timed and in tune with the zeitgeist, unlike Do-nothing Malcolm’s tax cuts for the rich and corporate mafia.
However, there is one thing that could go wrong for Labor’s reform agenda. And it is already happening. It is that things go to pot. In particular that the economy is led down by a house price and banking bust.
Think about it. Labor set up the Royal Commission. It will be perceived to be much harder on the banks coming out of it. Moreover, it has committed to negative gearing and capital gains tax reform that are by themselves equal to a -10% drop in prices.
If house prices fall another 5-10% over the next year and the economy slides with them then the Coalition will be in a position to run the single-greatest house price scare campaign in the history of Australia around these two issues. Contemporary elections are won and lost in this way, by pushing one party or the other into the perceived extremes on just a few policies.
Moreover, it will resonate because it will be true. For the first time in six years the Coalition will not be running on a platform of comprehensive lies.
The truth is the one electoral power its pathological carpetbaggers have never figured out. History could gift it to them.
poroti @ #621 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 11:01 pm
He publicly called for them to go hack Hillary’s emails, and then they did. Collusion.
The Russians offered his campaign some dirt on Hillary, and his campaign invited them all over for a meet and greet in Trump tower. Collusion.
Since gaining office, Trump has done everything in his power to avoid, delay, ignore, and/or minimize sanctions against Russia. Collusion.
All the stuff the Mueller knows that he hasn’t made public yet. Collusion.
Pseudo Cud Chewer @ #622 Friday, May 18th, 2018 – 11:33 pm
You averaged 15 mph in LA. On a bus. You should be proud, that’s probably close to the world-record speed!
Greetings people who, like me, have no life.
At a time like this, late on a Friday night, I don’t want to talk politics, or discuss transport on Septic cities. I’d rather listen to some great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyppTLuJm14
Okay, maybe it’s just me who has no life.
Ok, it’s late and most PBers are in bed, so I don’t expect many are reading now.
I’ve been in Chicago, Southside, for the past week. Most drivers here actually anticipate pedestrians move to cross and stop for them. And most people are very polite. Refreshingly different from Sydney.
Paul Kelly’s article, quoted by Tristo @11:44pm, is wishful thinking by Kelly.
Labor didn’t set up the bank RC, Turnbull did, very noisily, at the request of the banks, so they could try and control it.
And yes, the Liars Party will try and run a campaign on the scare of house prices falling, but it will be a hard one given prices are already falling.
What will they say? “House prices will always be higher under LNP Gov’t ?” as we watch them fall?
It’s a bit like Howard saying ‘interest rates will always be lower under a LNP Gov’t ‘ as we watched them rise in 2007.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings rips Trump and Congress after Santa Fe shooting: ‘Spare us your thoughts and prayers’
The mayor of Dallas had harsh words for President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress following the latest mass shooting in Texas.
Mayor Mike Rawlings posted a statement on “the latest mass murder of American children.”
“I renew my call for Congress and the president to take substantive action on the mass shooting epidemic in our country,” Mayor Rawlings wrote.
“History will not look kindly upon those elected officials who failed to act in the face of repeated mass murders of our children,” he continued.
“Spare us you thoughts and prayers and do you job,” Mayor Rawlings advised.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/dallas-mayor-mike-rawlings-rips-republicans-santa-fe-shooting-spare-us-thoughts-prayers/
Ante Meridian:
Many thanks for posting that Yunupingu clip. I’d never heard that song before. Simply beautiful!
Maude Lynne:
I’m with you on Chicago – by far my favourite US city, and I’ve been to a few in my 70 years.
Good Morning Bludgers from Australia with it’s sensible gun laws.
I agree with the Mayor of Dallas, all those ‘thoughts and prayers’ are worth than 3/5 of bugger all. It’s gun control laws that work.
He’s a cunning munt, is Donald Trump. Just saw his remarks re the Texas school shooting. No ‘thought and prayers’, he’s pivoted away from that so that now we have, ‘May God be with you, may God be with the victims and may God be with the injured.’
Like that will bring back the dead or heal the wounded.
Such a leader!
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/police-race-to-texas-high-school-after-reports-of-gunfire-20180519-p4zg8i.html
Interesting to see that the meme has shifted from ‘election any day now’ to ‘election sometime next year’.
I’ve been tipping the latter basically forever (when my first ancestor climbed out of the primeval slime).
The Libs are more likely to get rid of Malcolm than Labor is to get rid of Shorten.
If they don’t get rid of Malcolm, he’ll stay PM as long as he possibly can. He likes to pad out his C.V. Every second he is PM the more impressive it looks on paper.
If they do get rid of Malcolm, it’s unlikely that will result in any kind of bounce for them (because no contender has the popular ratings Malcolm has – think about that and weep). So whoever it is will hold off in the belief that any second now, they’ll change things around.
Qualifier: leadership changes are decided by nervous backbenchers, watching their margin being eaten away and facing unemployment as it does. These are unpredictable beasts. However, a vaguely popular leader is in their best interests, and they’ll want to stay employed as long as they can.
C@tmomma @ #636 Saturday, May 19th, 2018 – 7:11 am
Yes it’s true without a doubt,he is a cunny funt.
I am at Miami Airport, watching the grim news. 10 Dead, 10 injured, some critically. 17 year old shooter with greek name and Nazi symbols on Facebook now in custody.
“Interesting” to see the difference in coverage between Fox and CNN. Fox has little coverage – talking about how Trump wants flags flown at half-mast. CNN has a very eloquent man talking, father of one of the Parkland HS dead, explaining why the US urgently needs gun control.
Channel 7, here, has stated that more school children have been killed by guns this year than the total number of deaths in the military so far this year 🙁
Instead of watching the wedding how about watch the entire Fawlty Towers
While everyone else is celebrating the mustiest of British traditions, why not remind yourself of the worthwhile things the sceptred isle has given the world?
John Cleese and Connie Booth’s peerless sitcom only ran for 12 episodes, so you should be able to comfortably watch the whole show while the Royal festivities are going off.
Forget the soap opera of the “Meghan Markle debacle” — it pales beside the chaotic operations of a struggling Torquay hotel and the mental disintegration of its combustible proprietor.
And while the Royal wedding may leave you wishing England would sink forever beneath the waves, Basil and friends will convince you that the place might just be worth saving.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-19/watch-royal-wedding-live-eight-better-things-to-do/9775146
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SimpleDistantAngora-mobile.mp4
The nervous backbenchers, of course, rarely get talked to by political insiders, who are busily cultivating the front benchers….which is why they’re so often blindsided by leadership changes.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Get ready for the thoughts and prayers. Yet another mass shooting in a US school. Ten dead.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/police-race-to-texas-high-school-after-reports-of-gunfire-20180519-p4zg8i.html
Peter Hartcher doesn’t think much of the state of the Liberal Party.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/malcolm-turnbull-is-merely-minding-the-store-20180518-p4zg73.html
Adele Ferguson tells us how making money by meddling with schoolchildren’s savings accounts is just one of the scams CBA bank staff are using to game their own systems.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/dollarmites-bites-the-scandal-behind-the-commonwealth-bank-s-junior-savings-program-20180517-p4zfyr.html
Paul Bongiorno has a good article in which he looks at the desperate and unrelenting character assassination of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten by Turnbull and Co.
https://outline.com/BLzUuu
I want this disgusting man GONE!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/18/religious-schools-should-be-free-to-follow-beliefs-dutton-says
Mike Seccombe writes that after two High Court decisions, the fight against federal funding for religious-only school chaplains is set to end with a test case on state anti-discrimination law. Under the ever-increasing influence of its religious right wing, the federal government has granted a virtual monopoly to religious organisations for its school chaplaincy program.
https://outline.com/WXFRSE
Elizabeth Knight explains China’s tactical trade payback.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/red-tape-protest-china-s-tactical-trade-payback-20180518-p4zg39.html
The Australian reports that a secret plan to restrict the access of autistic people to the $22bn NDIS would prevent them from qualifying ‘automatically’.
https://outline.com/dsL7bp
Karen Middleton writes that as the government grants new airport powers to federal police, former Australian Border Force commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg says they need justification.
https://outline.com/7PBFU3
The government’s crackdown on cash transactions could not only change the way Australians spend, but also affect our overall privacy says John Power in The Saturday Paper.
https://outline.com/gNB6Kw
Richard Ackland takes a good swipe at the Australian Press Council.
https://outline.com/sFwVLT
The SMH editorial bemoans the fact that Sydney is bursting at the seams.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/we-re-bursting-at-the-seams-as-sydney-grows-up-too-fast-20180518-p4zg65.html
Richard Denniss explains how he right wing of Australian politics has not just abandoned its conservative heritage, it has abandoned its alleged concern with the state of our public finances as well. A very god read.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/democracy-is-great-value-for-money-we-shouldn-t-short-change-it-20180518-p4zg4h.html
And Norm Abjorensen wonders if Turnbull can’t run his party can he run the country.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/if-turnbull-can-t-run-his-party-can-he-run-the-country-20180516-p4zfnk.html
The Liberals will use a sophisticated, data-mining campaign software system in bid to wrest back the seat of Mayo. On the funding front it will be a David vs Goliath battle for Rebekha.
https://outline.com/TfE9Mc
In the wake of the AMP effort Alan Kohler says that boards need women, foreigners and IT gurus. He makes some good points here.
https://outline.com/cEj7kB
Michael West writes about the way in which the government is giving business to the tax avoiding Big 4 accounting firms.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/road-bump-for-government-by-consultants-amid-uk-calls-for-big-four-bust-up/
Laura Tingle writes that if the government thought it would be able to contain the outrage about live exports issue by holding a very limited review, it got it badly wrong.
https://outline.com/yStBGq
Ross Gittins uses the concept of time value for money to look at Morrison’s tax plan. He says that when Morrison claims his changes would make the system fairer, he’s turning the meaning of the word on its head
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/morrison-s-tax-cuts-aim-way-above-the-middle-20180518-p4zg3a.html
The AFR tells us that Washington is taking a big economic gamble which risks repeating some of the mistakes of the 1960s that were once defined by Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel as the “greatest failure of American macroeconomic policy in the postwar period”.
https://outline.com/ZsAPGH
Another fiery day in court for The Parrot.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/jones-accuses-wagners-of-qantas-bribery-20180518-p4zg77.html
Cartoon Corner
A corker from Mark Knight featuring the beautiful Michaelia.
Another naked Trump effort from David Rowe.
Peter Broelman takes the queen shopping.
Zanetti’s back in true form for his employer News Ltd.
Mark Knight on the women assaulting ambos in Melbourne.
A portrait of Morrison by Glen Le Lievre.
This is a nice one from Glen.
Jon Kudelka launches a section 44 app.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/a4ba37600c0fd78146776e1b57af4fb4
Quite a few in here this morning.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-may-19-2018-20180518-h1087x.html
From the Bongiorno article —
‘The whispering campaign against Jane Prentice has so infuriated her she is threatening to quit the parliament and cause yet another unwelcome byelection.’
Hmm. I didn’t think about that.
There you are, a serving Minister. And your colleagues are doing national interviews saying that, alas, you deserve to lose your job….
Excellent analysis Tristo.
‘The scoffing at Susan Lamb for failing to obtain her estranged parents’ marriage certificate is now shown to be mean and ill informed. She will recontest the Queensland seat of Longman after the British Home Office processed her application in six days, without demanding the certificate, as one of its bureaucrats had wrongly done.’
…again from Bongiorno, which points to another problem with the HC ruling – it only takes your file to end up on the desk of someone who is unnecessarily punctilious for your citizenship not to be sorted.
Another snippet — Georgina has heaps of credibility to burn, I’m sure —
‘In the Victorian preselection, she said she had lived in Melbourne for 20 years and had no interest in returning to Adelaide. ‘
Zoom
Unfortunately I dont think Prentice’s seat of Ryan would flip. It was 59-41 to LNP in 2016.
Jeez, if you don’t like your Art teacher and classmates, just do a different subject!
Ides of March not.logged in @ #648 Saturday, May 19th, 2018 – 8:00 am
Labor has held the seat though. 🙂