A Small Majority win For the Albo Government - Gilmore is retained By Fiona Phillips, Labor Party

Well, Andrew Constance, Liberal Party candidate on primary votes was over 6% on Fiona Phillips, candidate for Labor Party for Gilmore. Congratulations to Fiona Phillips on her re-election to the seat of Gilmore by 2 party-preferred differences of 242 votes. Click here for Australian Electoral Commission Results 2022. The swing against Fiona was 2.5%, leaving her with a marginal swing 0.11% lead for the next election.

Also congratulations to Albo and his Labor Party for winning the election with the same amount of seats as the Liberal Party in 2019, with 77 seats. Click here for the AEC Results 2019

Whilst Scomo dealt with fires, floods and COVID-19 Pandemic issues, let's see what issues Albo deals with. He seems to be saying he is looking only at a 2 term government. Well, he has been in office for  9 days, we need to see how he handles issues to prevent any early elections.

We know dumping Pilbo to New Environment junior ministership, is a bad way to start for Pilbo - but this may be Albo's way of dealing with the possible bullying of Senator Kitching, when she died of a sudden heart attack. The Albo Integrity Commission would be good to sort this out.

My guess is 18 months and we will be back into election mode. 16 Independents. Teal independents who claim they are not a party but confirm they were financially back by Climate 200 - Click here for details - which is founded by billionaire Robert Holmes A Court. Now they want party rights or questions in parliament, but they claim they are not a party.

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Further Updates to the Candidates for the Federal Seat of Gilmore

Gilmore Ballot paper has the Candidates in this order, for the Federal Election due 21st May 2022:

1. Andrew Constance, Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division

2. Nina Digiglio - Independent

3. Carmel McCallum - NSW Greens

4. John Lindsay Maloney - United Australia Party

5 Jeremy Eid - Pauline Hanson's - One Nation Party

6. Adrian Fadini - Liberal Democratic Party

7. Fiona Phillips - Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)

So we have three new candidates that have placed their hands up to be candidates for the Gilmore election. Andrew Constance will pick up what is called the 'Donkey votes' and that might end up being a few hundred or so, a small proportionate of the votes.

New Candidate details:

Nina Digiglio is a former Grens Councillor/ Independent on Shoalhaven City Councilor and a former Community First candidate for Mayor at 2021 Shoalhaven City Council elections and is a registered nurse. Click here for her Facebook page & Click here for her website

Jeremey Eid was born in Sydney and grew up on the Gold Coast Click here for his details

Adrian Fadini is a husband, father and the founding Director of TradesFormation which has turned around struggling businesses and improved the lives of thousands of Aussie tradies. Adrian is driven to serve and build his community, and to help them take charge of their own lives. Click here for more details

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Shoalhaven Citizen of the Year News - Sanctuary Point Bike Bump Track! - Fran Mooney Facebook Page

Editors Notes:

Elections always provide a rainbow of promises from candidates, especially when we live in a Federally swinging seat of Gilmore. Each candidate is like Santa Claus, with his bag of gifts/ or not. (without his suit and reminders) As voters, we judge each candidate with what is promised, what has been done and hope that promises are kept. Not all promises can be kept and there are promises that will be honoured. Instead of promises, why don't we ask candidates to provide us with pledges that solidify a promise?

Dictionary. com meaning :

Promise: a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen.

Pledge: a solemn promise or undertaking.

Anyway, congratulations Fran here is her news. I'm sure other candidates will be running to Fran with more pledges? Now, my other thought was if she wasn't Shoalhaven Citizen of the year, would she have got this?:

From Fran's Faebook Page:

I CAN NOW SHARE THE NEWS!

THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT HAS JUST BEEN MADE ON ABC by Andrew Constance and Paul Ell

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has committed $75k to the Sanctuary Point Pump Track with the expectation that Council will match.

We’re on the way to building a better future for SANCTUARY POINT and THE BAY AND BASIN community 

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