Opinion

To get elected, be high on mongrel and low on Pollyanna

By Jenna Price
Updated April 29 2019 - 10:55am, first published April 26 2019 - 12:00am

The unsafest seat in all Australia is Herbert. The local member is Labor's Cathy O'Toole who holds it by a teensy tiny margin of 0.02 per cent so just a few votes could see it change hands. She has, apparently, been working from dawn to midnight, a renowned worker and real local, but still the polls would make her anxious.

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