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I live in the Sturt electorate in South Australia, a must-watch seat in the forthcoming election, despite it having been held by the Liberals for four decades. Although current polls say Peter Dutton will form government, it might not happen if our incumbent James Stevens can be turfed out.
Apart from the fact it was on a knife edge at the last election, there is a new factor in the form of a Community Independent. Verity Cooper’s campaign launch, which I attended as an interested observer, was held just a fortnight ago, too late for her to build a profile methinks. The Greens claim they could win although on the 2022 results https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2022/guide/stur I doubt it.
The ALP has more chance, particularly as they won back the state seat of Dunstan in a by-election last year, and that seat sits within the Sturt boundaries. If the community independent, the Greens and the ALP exchange preferences, I think we just might get the progressive result many of us have been campaigning and longing for.