He was also been an adviser on Operation Sovereign Borders. He entered the workforce at age 15, back initially working for the curator of the biggest car museums in the state, then finding work in the horticultural industry. . Id be really interested to know that, but I dont. . Index to Candidates; Key . For most of its last three decades, it has been a highly marginal seat due to the balanced proportion of the urban north and the rural south, changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. He serves on the Joint Statutory committee on Intelligence and Security and the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Rudd then took it off the agenda and proposed a mining tax which did huge damage to his popularity in the polls. thanks for the laugh WD, Guess winediamond means PM material, that is a member who has leadership qualities but hasnt been able to obtain a party leadership position yet. But that was a while ago and he hasnt seem to eventuate too much since then. Voters are not likely going punish the government when its been caused in sad circumstances as we saw in the state bye-election in Queensland in the seat of Stretton. Enhancing safe walking and biking paths to and from the schools and popular destinations for students. There are 11 people vying for the Canning seat. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Semi-retired. Hallett held the seat until 1974, when the Liberal Partys Mel Bungey defeated him. Abbott's opponents didn't wait for the by-election, the coup that installed Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister coming in the week before the by-election. What went wrong for Labor? Given the Liberal Partys focus on national security, his background as an SAS officer is a great sell. The seat of Canning was named after WA's first Indigenous Australian nurse and matron and Alfred Canning who surveyed routes for the rabbit-proof fence from Starvation Harbour to Cape Keraudren and stock routes to bring cattle from the Kimberley to feed workers in the Goldfields. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.[7]. As a lecturer and small-business owner, I plan to draw on my background and research in low-carbon urban development to help create affordable and sustainable housing in the electorate. A teacher who ran as an independent in the 2014 Senate re-election and the 2014 Vasse by-election. Pollsters are better at measuring what people are going to do with their primary vote than trying to work out what people will do with the preferences. Q: Do you think the proposed China FTA is going to be an issue? Redistributions of electoral boundaries are taken into account and may produce notional results for any electoral division in a redistributed state or territory. Since 2012 she has served as the CEO of the Peel Development Commission and Chair of the Peel Workforce Development Alliance. Andrew Hastie (Liberal) since a September 2015 by-election. W hen Matt Keogh was preselected to stand for Labor in the hotly contested byelection for the seat of Canning, near Perth, Western Australia, he was dismissively described by the foreign. Assessment Canning is a safe Liberal seat. The less the focus is on national concerns the happier theyll be. I know Andrew Hastie was considered a rising star in the Liberal party. AAP/Rebecca Le May. Hastie was appointed Assistant Minister for Defence in December 2020. WA is largely a mystery to me. All over Canning people are telling me theyre angry about Tony Abbotts failure to create jobs and his cuts to schools and hospitals. He listed (Swan, Pearce, and Hasluck). Presumably there comes a time when the electorate says now hang on a minute, and the advantage passes to Labor who can oppose what the government is doing without the public accepting that Labor is soft on terror. Gerick was defeated narrowly by Liberal candidate Don Randallin 2001. Born in Perth, David Gardiner identifies strongly with libertarian values of freedom of speech, individual responsibility and free markets that allow small businesses to flourish. For the early part of its history it was contested between the Liberal Party and the Country Party, and since the 1980s the seat has become much more of a Labor-Liberal marginal seat, usually being held by the party winning government. Growing up in the outer suburbs of Perth, Ms Hunt said she understood the challenges and opportunities that came with a fast growing region. Amanda Hunt, chief executive of Uniting WA, will run as the Labor candidate in Canning. Armadale, though, is a different story, because its fairly blue-collar and has a lot of first-home buyers. Q: How important is national security as an issue in the byelection? Waldeck has also coached basketball and is past president of the Mandurah Basketball Association. MacTiernan contested and won Perth at the 2013 Federal election, while Don Randall had another swing in his favour in Canning. The unresolved question for me is: is there any limit on how tough Abbott can be on national security without it backfiring?. Who would you vote for? By Nathan Hondros. Election | The focus on the candidates, and the stories about Hastie, has been good for the Liberals. Canning was held for Labor by George Gear from 1984 until 1996 when it fell to Liberal Ms Ricky Johnston at her fifth attempt to win the seat. For the past 25 years, Amanda Hunt has worked her way up in the community services sector finding herself in chief executive roles for the most part. Theyre two different places with very different outlooks. As an electorate, Canning can be seen as divided into two main urban sectors Mandurah and Armadale with a smaller number living in the sort of semi-rural hinterland. Canning has been a seat for Labor like Greenway for the Liberals. The Liberals are at such a high watermark after the last federal election, and theyve also been in power at the state level for a long time. First created in 1949, this electorate is named Alfred Canning, who pioneered stock routes and rabbit proof fencing in Western Australia. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Alfred Canning,[1] the Western Australian government surveyor who surveyed the Canning Stock Route. The Liberal Party has held the seat since 2001. New Liberal MP Don Randall had previously represented Swan 1996-98. Her passion for disadvantaged and vulnerable population groups has been instrumental in her working across multiple health care settings including emergency and critical care, forensics, and rural and remote work amongst Aboriginal populations. Ive also seen comparisons to Geelong, but Mandurah is close enough to Perth sprawl and a lot smaller. Q: We have two fairly unknown candidates representing the Labor and Liberal parties. Matt Canning, Laura Chonko, Alissa Gault, Greg Pinter, Tara Tatman and John P We should strive to graduate upstanding citizens who are critical thinkers and cherish our American values of liberty, equality and justice for all. Q: Thats fine if youre selling something. Voters born overseas tend to be from the UK, South Africa and New Zealand. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. I will continue to understand the need to offer students a variety of educational opportunities so that they can explore more subject and educational content so as they have to start to choose a career path, they have had a variety of experiences to help with the decision-making process, she said. Could have an impact especially if Hastie gets somehow involved in it due to his SAS history. ), Liberal results in Canning have tracked the party's state-wide, though bit by bit Liberal results in Canning have risen above the state voting trend. Hastie was re-elected with a swing against him in 2016, but restored the Liberal margin back to former levels at the 2019 election. A: Western Australia generally has Labor starting from a long way behind. This ethos eventually led her to a career in law. There have been some minor changes to the boundary with Burt north of Armadale and rural Boddington Shire has been transferred to O'Connor. Labor also endorsed a high profile candidate for the 2010 election in Alannah MacTiernan, the former state MP for Armidale and Minister for Planning and Infrastructure through two terms of state Labor government. Q: The one issue that seems to be resonating with the electorate is crime, which is fundamentally a state issue. What can you tell us about the candidates? About half of the seats population is in the Mandurah council area, and this area has been split into Mandurah North and Mandurah South, along the river. That said, I wouldnt be surprised if a great part of the electorate could be mollified by the sort of big-ticket road funding that the Abbott government will be promising. Out of the four this seat is probably the Liberals best chance of retaining. Following the death of sitting Liberal Party member Don Randall, a byelection will be held on September 19 for the federal seat of Canning. School board members earn $125 per board meeting, up to $250 a month, and are reimbursed for mileage for travel related to work for the school district, said district Treasurer Sadie Fox. Freo favourite set to expand on Cappuccino Strip, Survey sees call to bring Nedlands into the 21st century, Get your tickets for Perths most celebrated social event, Ripple effect: Footballers reflect on horror bombings, West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. For the latest information, searchABC Emergency, For the latestweather warnings in the Northern Territory, search onABC Emergency. . For the latest information, searchABC Emergency, For the latestweather warnings in the Northern Territory, search onABC Emergency. Michelle Allen, Jim McCourt and Teresa Van Lieshout. Andrew Hastie (Liberal) since a September 2015 by-election. | Paul Pahoresky, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat, Southern California home sales fall to all-time low, Zero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds, As many as 700,000 Illinois residents could lose Medicaid health coverage this year, Balloon ban made official in Laguna Beach, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. While I do not support it, I support the idea of letting Australian men and women decide the issue rather than politicians. The landscape of the seat has changed over time, originally being a rural seat, then moving towards southern metropolitan areas and now taking in Mandurah. @Redistributed Not from WA but my working assumption is something like West Gippsland between Pakenham and the Latrobe Valley, or Ipswich and the Lockyer Valley. Any insights. Seems to be from the schools and hospitals is national security, his as. 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