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Gladstone Mayor Matt Burnett will run for federal seat of Flynn
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Gladstone Mayor Matt Burnett will contest the federal seat of Flynn in the upcoming election.
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Flynn a decision that could spark another Queensland by-election.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese will announce Cr Burnett as Labor s candidate for the seat today in a trip to the city.
Cr Burnett – who is also a Local Government Association of Queensland board member has been an open Labor member and was last year slated to contest the Flynn seat.
Mr Albanese said Cr Burnett s pre-selection marked the start of Labor s push for comeback in Queensland where it holds just six seats out of 30.
The LNPâs state secretary, Angela Awabdy, did not respond to questions.
Chong, who is known to keep a low profile, could not be contacted. Listed phone numbers for Zashvin were not answered.
Uncertainty about the operation of the prohibited donors law â and separate claims that property developers have used âloopholesâ to make donations from separate entities â have prompted critics to call for the restrictions to be strengthened.
Michael Berkman, a state Greens MP, said that Chong and his associated companies should be classified as a property developer.
âIf these donations are legal, then the laws are broken,â Berkman said.
Labor accused of imitating popular petition platform change.org for political page
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AprApril 2021 at 3:00am
SA Labor Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has dismissed concerns that a website operated by his party is too similar to change.org.
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A confusing SA Labor Party website which borrows from international petition platform change.org should identify itself more clearly as a political page, a politics law expert has said.
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A political expert says a website managed by the SA Labor Party is confusing and borrows too heavily from change.org
Professor Graeme Orr said the wording and layout could confuse the average user