Greens gear up for Marrickville

Iemma is a Barry Unsworth choice. Labor would have done much better with Scully. Please don't think that I support Scully - he is rotten to the core. Politically however I think Scully presents himself as a leader more than the lamo Iemma.

So Carr has gone, Refshauge has gone and now Knowles has gone. And here I am thinking that the next two years without elections would mean boredom. We will have three bi-election in NSW.

Most interestingly from a Greens perspective is the seat Refshauge is leaving behind. It is the seat of Marrickville where the Greens polled 28% in the 2003 state election, 21% in the seat of Grayndler at the 2004 Federal election, and elected five Greens Marrickville Councillors in 2004 (and breaking Labor's mayoral fiefdom in Marrickville).

The word is that Karmel Tebbutt will move from the upper house to contest the seat. The refore the Greens will want to preselect a woman.

The Greens might just snatch this seat from the ALP. If so it will be the first lower house seat at a state level. It is possible only if the Greens get a positive swing by snatching the protest vote from disgruntled ALP voters AND the Liberals preference the Greens above the ALP.