lol, the ALP got 47% of the primary vote in Barton, and ended up with 66% 2pp.
Seems an odd electorate to bother trying to rig, but cookers gonna cook…
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So some election worker forgot to take them out of their car (or something), it was noticed, and all these checks and balances in place to make sure no electoral tampering occurred.
That sounds like the system working to me.
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I worked with an English guy whose wife was like that…her dad worked for the Poms in Colonial Nigeria. Good couple. She lived in Surrey, he in Chesterfield of the Crooked Spire in Derbyshire. Unfortunately they…and their Oz-born daughters…got here in 1986 and started following the Hawks.
There was an incident in a general election in WA. The full number of containers couldn’t be accounted for ( speculated that some fell off a truck in a more remote area). A special election for the electorate had to be run.
If that electorate had been a determinate of the Party of Government, caretaker mode could have extended by more than a month, with the timing of writs for an election date.
She was also a commercial pilot at 20. She was an aerial mustering pilot. The accounting and tax law masters degree and subsequent senior role at the ATO was done later in her working career (presumably after having 3 children) so it was a change of career course - that’s the way I read it.
How much does it cost to get a commercial pilot’s licence?
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A Sussan Ley Blitz Summary.
Lawry likes her and thinks her background is pretty damn good
The DJR is impressed (possibly) with her attendance at an Australian Boomerang Championship
Others seem less impressed.
Extra details: it appears that Blitz’s collective knowledge of Nigerian Colonial History is rather sketchy.
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Depends.
A lot cheaper if you go via the defence force is my understanding, though.
I cannot give exact details but I remember getting asked by a job seeker if we could fund him to get his commercial pilot’s licence.
It was highly unlikely but I did do some research…it was well over six figures (and that was at least 20 years ago).
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I want to know if DJR won the championship and was presented with the golden boomerang by Susan Ley.
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See my remark re Blitz’s knowledge of Nigerian Colonial History 
I didn’t study Nigerian history , but knew an English woman who was brought up in Nigeria when her father worked there as a Colonial Administrator. She was forced to go to boarding school in England for her secondary schooling. She explained that Nigeria had the colonial status of a Protectorate. As such the Colonial masters did not provide secondary schooling ( unlike Kenya, where her husband grew up).
I also happened to know some NGO aid people who had delivered humanitarian aid to Biafra during the Civil War.
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That’s a lot of money for a 20yo.
Two boys i knew from my town did it in their teens. Both quite wealthy families. Sussy got a leg up, little doubt. But you know, it’s what u ddo witth iit.
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Had a Mate who did it 30 years ago and it cost about $60,000, reckon it would be up towards $200,000. His licence allowed him to fly a plane up to 8000 kgs or so, but not to carry any passengers.
Actually should add that another friend got his polios licence in UK for a lot cheaper and it had less restrictions when he came home to Oz.
A CPL now is around 90k but can range into a lot more. All depends on your skills, other pilots licenses than you hold etc.
I do know of some that have paid $150k and others under $100k
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Obviously has family wealth to help her out and I know it’s a different era but my lad was on well over $100k per year as a 19yo and there has always been jobs that pay decent
If she’d said “Downer in a skirt”…
Isn’t Turnbull a Scottish clan? Probably pictures of Mal in a ‘skirt’ somewhere?
Ley was born in 1961, so she would have acquired her commercial pilot’s licence in 1981.