SA Liberal leader called a sudden leadership spill today in order to resolve the leadership issues over the ‘dodgy documents’ affair earlier this year and the loss of frontbencher Mitch Williams last week. Instead, the spill appears to have made Hamilton-Smith’s position untenable, as he won 11 votes, to 10 votes for his deputy Vicky Chapman, with one abstention. Another spill has been called for Wednesday, with the hope of a more decisive result.
I was looking the boundaries of the federal seat of Grayndler earlier today when I noticed that all five state electorates that overlap with Grayndler are held by female MPs, along with a number of other neighbouring seats. I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of how the gender balance in the Legislative Assembly is distributed geographically.
There are 25 women in the NSW Legislative Assembly, out of a total of 93 MLAs. Each party has the following gender balances:
I’ve been looking over the Senate results in the NSW seat of Grayndler at the last federal election, and I found this interesting information. This is the list of the top 10 polling individual candidates in terms of below-the-line votes.
Amongst below-the-line votes, Kerry polled 46.11%, and the Greens six candidates collectively polled 51.02%. Interesting.