tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post7246432354644787398..comments2024-02-14T22:50:48.749+10:30Comments on Bill Kerr: Why have aboriginal people in the bush turned against Labour?Bill Kerrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post-82480027293728888822012-09-01T10:21:10.913+09:302012-09-01T10:21:10.913+09:30Another good analysis: Was the NT election outcome...Another good analysis: <a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/was-the-nt-election-outcome-a-shockwave-or-a-regional-ripple-9138" rel="nofollow">Was the NT election outcome a shockwave or a regional ripple?</a> by Rolf Gerritsen<br />Professorial Research Fellow, Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University<br /><br /> "the major reason Labor lost was that the CLP pursued a canny strategy for the bush. Credit for this must go to Alison Anderson and the CLP leader Terry Mills. When Anderson left the Labor Party in 2010 she initially sat in the Legislative Assembly as an independent. She was evaluating the possibilities. Anderson did a deal with Mills that if the CLP would allow the communities, rather than the party machine, to select the candidates and would listen to the communities, then she would join the CLP. Labor was caught napping. Their Aboriginal candidates were pre-selected by the party machinery; they were Darwin-focused and unable or unwilling to challenge the fiscal status quo"Bill Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29868932.post-57632551255405431182012-08-29T21:59:18.506+09:302012-08-29T21:59:18.506+09:30For a better informed article on this issue than m...For a better informed article on this issue than mine see <a href="http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/08/27/nt-election-2012-a-watershed-moment-in-australias-history/#more-21353" rel="nofollow">NT election 2012 – a watershed moment in Australia’s history?</a> by Ken ParishBill Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206808014093631762noreply@blogger.com