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Sam Benson for Batman and Australia': labor pre-selection problems, the ethnic vote and the ghost of Benson
journal contribution
posted on 2017-05-05, 04:13 authored by Allen, LyleThe 1995 battle for Batman has held the public's attention for some months. Two local candidates for ALP pre-selection have been disappointed and, thanks to support by Canberra-based members of the Party, an outsider - Martin Ferguson - has won. This struggle can be seen as an odd echo from the 1960s when the ALP Victorian Central Executive twice intervened in pre-selections in Batman. Ethnicity was an issue then as now, but the context was very different.
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