Opinion

ACT election 2020: A chance for change goes begging

Nicholas Stuart
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:02am, first published September 21 2020 - 2:30am
Many of us in the ACT are struggling to get excited about the upcoming election, and the plethora of corflutes that come with it. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Many of us in the ACT are struggling to get excited about the upcoming election, and the plethora of corflutes that come with it. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Local elections again. Goodness, it seems as if it was but yesterday when our streets were last adorned with dreadful corflute and a plethora of posters, all bearing the beaming faces of contestants hoping to win prizes. So much hype and that's understandable too because the stakes are, if not high, still significant enough for those involved to make a determined play to receive your vote. Everyone involved is busily pretending that your vote will, this time, really count; that somehow this particular festival of democracy is meaningful and significant. So let's play along, dissecting the rival claims, seeing how they stack up and deciding for ourselves what is actually going on here.

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Nicholas Stuart

Nicholas Stuart is a Canberra writer.

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