Mercury (Hobart)

SAFE SEAT POLITICS

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AGAIN self-interest is at play in federal Labor, with reports Senator Keneally is to be parachuted into a very safe seat. No regard for local branch members’ choice of a local candidate, who more adequately represents the ethnic diversity of this electorate.

The senator oversaw one of NSW’s worst Labor defeats. If she is such an asset and potentiall­y a Labor leader, why not venture down to Tasmania, and pit herself against the Member for Clark? Harry Quick

Berriedale

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