Politics With Michelle Grattan: Antony Green, Kos Samaras And Tim Costello On Dunkley Contest
Date
2/20/2024 1:18:24 AM
Author:
Michelle Grattan
(MENAFN- The Conversation) The March 2 byelection in the outer suburban Melbourne seat of Dunkley is the third byelection this term but the first in a Labor-held electorate. It has been caused by the death late last year of Peta Murphy, after a long battle with cancer.
Labor's margin sits at 6.3% in Dunkley, an electorate that has swung between the major parties.
Labor goes into the byelection as the favourite, as it seeks to sell its changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts. Most voters will be better off under the new package than they would have under the original version, although there will be some losers.
Labor's candidate is Jodie Belyea, from Frankston, who has extensive experience working in the not-for-profit sector. The Liberals are fielding the Mayor of Frankston, Nathan Conroy.
To talk about the byelection, we are joined by the ABC's election analyst Antony Green, Kos Samaras from the RedBridge Group, which has conducted research in Dunkley, and Tim Costello, former CEO of World Vision Australia and a Dunkley resident.
There are several measures of swing that can be used for byelections, and participants often adopt whichever suits them. Green says:
How is the government's recently-announced reworked tax package going down in Dunkley? Drawing on the focus group RedBridge ran this week, Samaras says:
On voter engagement in Dunkley Samaras finds little interest:
As a resident observer, Costello says Belyea is
Conroy is
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