- Bligh unveils 20-year infrastructure plan
- Torres Strait pleads for climate change action
- Overcrowding in parliamentary precinct worsens, Opposition says
- Minister apologises for 'boisterous' comment
- Junee senator questions Australian Quarantine rules
- Carbon price 'disastrous' for mining companies
- Local MP urges PM's carbon tax tour to visit Riverina
A lot of candidates to share 3% of the Bennelong vote
According to the Galaxy poll this week, 97% of the Bennelong voters polled indicated they would give their first preference to either Liberal, Labor or the Greens. This leaves only 3% to be shared among the other 10 candidates, or an average of 0.3% of the vote - less than 300 votes per candidate. I suspect Peter Goldfinch, Robyn Peebles and Margherita Tracanelli will split the bulk of this 3%, with the remaining 7 candidates sharing less than a thousand votes.