It’s funny how often these ‘exceptional careerists’ seem to be wealthy and well-connected white people bumping aside non-white local grassroots candidates though. And I can’t remember the last time a major party’s central office intervened to hand preselection to a strong local candidate over a factional hack or donor, rather than the other way around…
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I don’t like it and was trying to work out why she was being shifted from the Senate. Like her or not, she has been effective there and part of a strong team of ALP women. Perhaps there’s a view that the ALP is overloaded with experienced female talent in the Senate, less experience and lower profile NSW females in the House ( apart from Plibersek);although there are some very able younger women coming on.
Or maybe it’s just NSW ALP politics
Yeah there is certainly that.
They don’t need any help. Morrison is their biggest help.
Labor will romp it in.
They already have good local candidates that got into politics as a career.
I don’t think much of Keneally and think it’s even worse she’s been parachuted into Fairfield. And I’m scratching my head at moving a guy from Bellevue hill to Parra.
Parra ain’t the same as when I was a kid 
Is Redfern any better these days?
Curate’s egg, have friends living there in a very posh and expensive apartment complex - gated community.
Good shopping precinct
Eveleigh Carriageworks Arts hub, farmers market , gourmet foods.
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Yes, bulldozed plenty of the old dumps and some impressive units there now
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Lib voters in Hughes must be relieved that they no longer have the PM’s pick of Craig Kelly, others relieved when Jim Moylan got placed lower on the Senate ticket.
In Vic Senate, great LNP candidates (not) Sarah Henderson , Bridget McKenzie and Greg Mirabella.
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Bit of a uni hub and plenty of student accommodation around and has had a real good facelift especially along the river with some quality restaurants and cafes.
Bit of a mess in the CBD currently with the LR works but the place is actually quite decent these days
Yes it’s not a partisan rant. It was just an ALP candidate today, and it’s well very disappointing.
People criticise that even though parties get 50% women into parliament they are often backbenchers in marginal seats rather than “parachuted into safe seats”, which limits their capacity to become ministers. Can’t have it both ways. Keneally is a talented female leader who will be a senior cabinet minister and leader of the government. Surely it’s a good thing.
Perhaps you can argue she doesn’t fit the demographics of the seat, but the inner city gentrified areas you could argue she is part of are LNP seats, Labor doesn’t have safe north shore seats to parachute her into.
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Parramatta is hardly a working class suburb any longer, and Liberals have always got lots of votes there.
Charlton is a good candidate who will be a good MP and will be Treasurer one day.
Labor fight it out with the greens in the inner city seats.
Take one Tanya Plibersek.
What gets me is two things. One there were very capable local candidates for Fairfield and Parramatta and
Two, Keneally is in my book a politician that cannot be trusted.
Are you from Sydney or NSW? Do you remember her government?
Do you remember what they did to Nathan Rees?
I personally can’t stand her.
She’s not in the same league as some of Albos other front bench. But I assume Keneally is there because of the NSW right.
Keneally is a good Parliamentary performer, skills transferred from her time in NSW Parliament .
Gallagher is of similar ilk, from her time as Deputy and successor to Jon Stanhope as Chief Minister of ACT.
For my money, she’d have two choices:
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Stay in the Senate; or
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Stand as a House of Reps candidate in the seat she lives in.
Otherwise, she can Rees off.
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Gold standard Gladys.
Taking lessons from the catholic church.
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Talented female candidates were in line at Fairfield. They just weren’t white wealthy Anglo Saxons connected with the criminal/corrupt element that’s run through the ALP.
And yes it happens in the liberals too
Any of them Moslems ? Fairfield was next-door to where I lived in Sydney, and it had a large number of working-class Moslems in the population. It seems to me as if Labor has missed the bus in Fairfield.