The Tally Room » Alison Anderson http://www.tallyroom.com.au Elections and politics in Australia and around the world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:57:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Anderson to support CLP http://www.tallyroom.com.au/1741 http://www.tallyroom.com.au/1741#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:06:44 +0000 Ben Raue http://www.tallyroom.com.au/?p=1741 Just to follow up on today’s story, Northern Territory Labor defector Alison Anderson has announced she will become an independent and support a new Country Liberal government. This will be the first mid-term change of government, that I can think of, since John Curtin took office during the Second World War. The Assembly will begin sitting next Tuesday, and it appears the CLP will call a vote of no-confidence as soon as possible. They will then have 8 days to present a new government with majority support to the Administrator. I’m not sure of how this plays out constitutionally, but we should see a Country Liberal government by the end of August.

More from Ms Anderson:

The newly independent Member for MacDonnell, Alison Anderson, says next Tuesday’s Parliamentary session will be the greatest day in Northern Territory history.

Ms Anderson was the Territory’s Indigenous policy minister until earlier this week, when she quit in fury over a housing program and a newspaper article she thought was derogatory.

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