AusPol / 23 August 2024
A vote much closer to home
Northern Territorians will head to the polls tomorrow to decide if Labor deserves a third 4-year term, or if the Country Liberal Party (CLP) will get a go. It’s Chief Minister Eva Lawler’s first time leading Labor to an election after she took the reins from Natasha Fyles in December – she quit over a conflict of interest scandal. CLP leader Lia Finocchiaro has already been taking Lawler to task over the main election issue – crime. Many Territorians have faced increasing violence – in Alice Springs that led to a 3-day curfew last month. The CLP says it would strengthen bail laws and lower the age of criminal responsibility to cut crime rates, but Lawler says that’s a “band-aid” that will have “no impact”. The results will trickle in tomorrow, but election expert Antony Green reckons “everything points to there being a swing to the Country Liberals”.
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