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"On the eve of the 2019 federal election, a Labor Party politician made a
panicked phone call to someone they knew in Kununurra, a remote town of over
5,000 people in Western Australia. As the person later recalled to us during an
interview for our research, the conversation went something like this:
We haven’t got anybody [there]. We just forgot about Kununurra. There’s a
bunch of brochures on a Greyhound bus. Can you go and pick them up? Can you
go and set up the booths? Can you go and round up some people to bloody
pamphleteer?
Once upon a time, such a call wouldn’t have been necessary. In decades past,
Labor had an active grassroots branch in Kununurra that would have taken care
of everything. But by 2019, this was long gone and the party’s closest branch
was nearly 1,000 kilometres away in Broome.
Without a permanent presence on the ground, the ALP had simply forgotten about
the town during the election campaign."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
