Julia
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Agree. Marion Scrymgour is an aboriginal woman of conviction and substance.
Agree. Marion Scrymgour is an aboriginal woman of conviction and substance.I reckon this lady would have had the backing of some NT ALP members, in a fair fight against Sen. Crossin.
If the ALP doesn't split this year, or get Rudd back in to the Lodge, it will be in Opposition for two generations.
Every man, woman and dog, is sick of this politicking.
gg
Mis Gillard is certainly creating a lot of division in the Labor Party. There maybe an implosion any time soon.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...peris-for-senate/story-fn59niix-1226560824510
In a November 2000 story in the Sydney Morning Herald entitled "The ALP ‘pet ******’ with no place to go", "Tracker" Tilmouth, an Alice Springs man who was the federal party’s pick to replace Collins in 1998, slammed the "weekend warriors" of the NT party.
"For the last 20 years we’ve all voted Labor," the SMH article quoted Tilmouth as saying. "They just expected us to vote Labor. It’s a plantation mentality."
Collins opposed Tilmouth’s nomination, as did the "Darwin end" of the NT Labor party. He withdrew from the race. "Some in Federal Labor bitterly regretted the party’s lost chance to get its first black face into the national parliament," the SMH reported.
In the same article, Snowdon was asked whether he was "keen to see a Territory Aboriginal politician in Canberra?" He thought it was inevitable, but he wouldn’t support Tilmouth. "People needed to understand the legitimate political aspirations of Aboriginal contenders," the article paraphrased him as saying.
He was less enthused when it came to the prospect of giving up his seat for an Aboriginal contender: "Snowdon all but choked," the story continued.
"My time’s not up," he said. "I don’t intend stepping aside for anyone at this point. But there will be a time when I won’t be contesting, and I’ll be happy to endorse an appropriate person at that time."
PM's captain's pick may end a sorry chapter in Labor history
Michael Gordon
IFTEEN years ago, Kim Beazley decided it was high time an indigenous Australian represented the country's oldest political party in Federal Parliament. The then Labor leader flew to Broome and put his case directly to Patrick Dodson, at the time Australia's most respected and highest-profile Aboriginal leader.
The catalyst was the decision by Bob Collins, who had been a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, to vacate his Senate seat in the Northern Territory. Dodson took the approach seriously enough to talk it through with those whose judgment he respected in the Kimberley before politely declining Beazley's invitation.
He had two main reasons: feedback from indigenous people in Darwin with long-term Labor connections that he would face local opposition (even though Dodson had lived in the territory for two decades before moving to Broome) and the prospect of a battle with Trish Crossin, a former teacher and industrial officer who had the backing of local unions to win the preselection.
Dodson wasn't the only indigenous contender to succeed Collins in the Senate. After he withdrew, Tracker Tilmouth, a fearless and articulate local, had the backing of prominent MPs, including the party's spokesman on Aboriginal affairs, Daryl Melham, as well as Labor's then national secretary, Gary Gray (now Julia Gillard's Special Minister of State).
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...bor-history-20130125-2dc33.html#ixzz2J4aVmrOD
Ah. Now I get it. Julia wants a soul-mate for Tim.
Ah. Now I get it. Julia wants a soul-mate for Tim.
Do atheists have souls ?
Miss Gillard is a ruthless, heartless liar the way she has treated Trish Crossin.
Gillard had a press release draft for Crossin to read supporting her "CAPTAINS PICK" of Ms Peris.
Crossin refused to read it and good on her.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...or-trish-crossin/story-fndo1uez-1226572146614
I reckon this lady would have had the backing of some NT ALP members, in a fair fight against Sen. Crossin.
gg
... * didn't turn up for a celebrity race the next day as she had a black eye ...
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