There are 25 seats up for grabs in the October 17 ACT election and there is one seat in each of the five electorates of five members that will effectively decide the election – the fifth seat. In a series of articles political reporter BELINDA STRAHORN will analyse the fate of each of the “fifth seats”. This week she looks at Murrumbidgee.
Both the Woden Valley Community Council and the Weston Creek Community Council have written to the AEC objecting to the Federal boundaries. The Woden Town Centre is the social and economic hub for Woden, Weston Creek and Molonglo and under the proposed distribution, not only will the Woden community be split, the Town Centre will be separated from the majority of the community is services.
The ACT Legislative Assembly election is coming up on the 15th October 2016.
The Woden Valley Community Council (WVCC) will be conducting a candidate’s forum for the electorate of Murrumbidgee on Wednesday 5th October at 7.30pm at the Canberra Southern Cross Club in Phillip.
WVCC supports the enlargement of the Assembly, but urges that priority be given to ensuring that electorate boundaries coincide with Canberra’s ‘towns’.
The Woden Valley Community Council has made a submission into the size of the ACT Legislative Assembly. The submission is available here » …
WVCC undertook to put on its website the political parties’ written responses to the Council’s list of issues. The ACT Greens’ responses are here » …
The WVCC submitted comments to the ACT Legislative Assembly’s
Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure on the Review of the ACT Self-Government Act 1988 (Cwlth). Read the WVCC’s submission here » …
The final make-up of the ACT Legislative Assembly electoral boundaries for the 2012 election has been announced today by the ACT Electoral Commissioner, Mr Phillip Green.
“The Augmented ACT Electoral Commission has decided to alter the existing elec…
82 objections to the Augmented ACT Electoral Commission’s redistribution proposal now available
Objections to the Augmented ACT Electoral Commission’s proposed redistribution of the ACT Legislative Assembly’s electoral boundaries…
The Woden Valley Community Council in opposing the latest Electoral Boundaries Redistribution, proposes a new redistribution consisting of a new seven member Brindabella electorate, a five member Ginninderra electorate and a five member Molonglo…
