Almost 11,000 voters will switch electorates across the Territory under draft changes, while two major seats are given Indigenous names.
Almost 11,000 voters will switch electorates across the Territory under draft electoral changes, while two major seats are given Indigenous names.
Under the electoral commission's proposal released this morning, Nhulunbuy will be renamed Mulka and Stuart will be renamed Gwoya. The Redistribution Committee has also suggested that Coconut Grove electors in Fannie Bay move to Johnston and Nightcliff, while Katherine loses a number of its rural and remote electors to Arnhem.
Deputy CLP leader Lia Finocchiario's seat of Spillett would move towards Palmerston and lose the Darwin Airport, the Narrows, Winnellie and Charles Darwin National Park.In Central Australia, Alice Springs will keep just two urban seats, but the hybrid seat of Namatjira, held by Labor's Chancey Paech, would completely surround the town, including the suburbs of Larapinta, and parts of Araulen, Sadadeen and Mount Johns.
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