Northern Territory s CLP delays preselection decision for Lingiari
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FebFebruary 2021 at 7:32pm
The electorate of Lingiari covers most of the Northern Territory, including the Central Australian community of Santa Teresa.
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The Country Liberal Party has delayed its preselection process for the vast Northern Territory electorate of Lingiari until June.
Key points:
The long-time Labor Member for Lingiari Warren Snowdon is not contesting the next federal election
Labor has not yet confirmed its candidate for Lingiari
Party members made the decision on Saturday afternoon at the CLP s three-day central council meeting in Alice Springs.
Darwin-based members and the parliamentary team travelled to the town on Friday for the meeting, where it had been expected a final decision on a candidate would be made.
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Disclosure statement
Kamaljit K Sangha works for the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research at Charles Darwin University. We acknowledge the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (BNHCRC) support to fund our project on, Building Resilience of remote Indigenous Communities that included evaluating real costs and benefits of natural disasters, conducting workshops with Indigenous partners and scenario planning exercises with a wide range of stakeholders across the north (emergency management personnel, Indigenous communities, researchers, and various local organisations).
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