As some of you may know, I'm going to be away for the election this weekend.
I've been chosen to fly to North Queensland to cover the Army Reserves buildup for the Solomon Islands for Community Newspapers.
It's quite exciting, and it's just me and a journo from the South Western Times who gets to go.
As a result of this, I had to vote early yesterday.
I made my vote count, but I felt a bit cheap when I handed in the ballot paper.
You see - I didn't know any of the candidates for my electorate in Fremantle.
I had a vague idea that the Labor candidate was a young woman who caused a bit of a kerfuffle when she was preselected because she didn't live in the area at the time.
But I couldn't tell you her name - and even after voting for her, I still can't.
Other than that, I had never seen the other names on the ballot paper before.
And not for lack of trying I might add - I had been reading the Fremantle Gazette and the Fremantle Herald in the weeks preceding the election to do just that - find out who my local candidates were.
But both papers were severely lacking.
The Gazette this week had one election story in it - one - and it was a small lead at the bottom of page 9 about the Labor candidate's concern regarding informal votes. The week before an election.
Now obviously that's an editorial choice but you'd think there would be a bit more of an attempt to inform the readers.
I was a bit disappointed.
Oh, and I voted the Socialist Party number 3 on the ballot just for kicks.
Gotta love Fremantle.
2 months ago
1 comment:
Oh wow I had no idea you were going - good work, sounds great.
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