What a Delightful Way to Spend a Day!
There are three by-elections in NSW today. Maroubra, vacated because of Bob Carr’s resignation, Marrickville because of Andrew Refshauge, and Macquarie Fields, because of another resignation.
Marrickville and Maroubra both have a strong Greens presence, but not so in Macquarie Fields. Last state election Labour won by a huge margin, the Libs were second, and Greens a distant third at about 4% of the primary vote.
So Mark and I are off to hand out how to votes at Hoxton Park Primary School, and hopefully increase the Green vote by a small margin.
In knitting news, the lace scarf is about as long as my arm, and though I can see two mistakes, they are so far back that I refuse to frog. I admire perfectionism in others, but in me it only leads to procrastination, and I have enough of that already, thank you.
September 17th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
Hey! I’m in the Macquarie Fields electorate. But Hoxton Park is about as far away as you can get and still stay in the electorate.
September 18th, 2005 at 11:13 am
I hope Twinkie did his civic duty and voted yesterday ??? We aren’t in Macquarie Fields electorate, we just volunteered to help out, and went where we were told
It was actually nice to see a part of Sydney that I hadn’t really seen before, and we had a scrummy dinner in Cabramatta on the way home.
Lara