@k_eagar@nelsonsopinion Plus some people living overseas and relying on postal votes are at the mercy of locally inefficient postal systems both to receive the ballot plus to return it in time.
@kevinbonham@GusGguuss@adamrayon I guess the numbers will show us soon enough but does BTL tend to favour people running within a party but with a high personal recognition? Thinking of Jacqui Lambie in Tas but also Fiona Patten in Vic who has a profile separate from LCP.
@ronInBendigo@thomasjreid My point was that Tu Le has been the preferred local ALP candidate since before Dai Le was considered to have a serious chance (until KK was forced into the mix)
@ronInBendigo@thomasjreid Tu Le has been around for a while - I think she was the local who had to give up ALP preselection to Kristina Keneally in 2022.
@chant_ian @msheze11@conserv1951@abcmelbourne just mentioned someone who drove their EV to a Phillip Island school and let the teachers connect to their V2L plug so they could charge their phones and computers!
@AussieBloke2020@AntonyGreenElec From memory there were two questions posed at the 1999 referendum: republic and preamble. Canโt remember whether they were on two papers or one.
@SeamusBlackley There's a sugar cane farm we visited in Far North Queensland which also grows cacao and vanilla with the goal of making all the ingredients for chocolate onsite.
@SeamusBlackley Fascinating - thanks for sharing the process. I used to live near a Cadbury factory in Hobart, Australia and while I had toured it many times I hadn't realised about the fermentation aspect.
@NickEvershed @jimjam_slam Would it be advertising following the passage of the bill through the Senate on 19 June, so capitalising on the referendum's reality being in the news, people's minds etc?