What Next in New England

Filed in Recent News by July 3, 2016
Barnaby Joyce remains in the seat.

Barnaby Joyce remains in the seat.

THE outcome of the government may still be unknown, but the seat of New England has been retained by the National Party candidate Barnaby Joyce.

After preferences and with 86 percent of the votes counted, Barnaby Joyce garnered 58 percent of the vote and independent candidate Tony Windsor has 41 percent.

The third largest number of votes were 6,113 informal votes.

Despite a bombardment of media releases throughout the election, unfortunately Barnaby Joyce is not available for any comment today.

Tony Windsor said he was proud of the competition they had created in the seat and he will continue to champion key issues.

“There is a lot of disillusionment with the political system, the way in which they seem to disregard the individual other than at election time for their vote and we’ve seen nearly $300 million worth of promises in the New England in a six week period,” said Mr Windsor.

“When the panic is on the cash comes, but if there is no panic there is no cash,” he said.

Tony will still be supporting local people on key issues.

Tony will still be supporting local people on key issues.

“I think that makes people disillusioned because if someone else can create panic why can’t I and I think that’s what’s happening in a number of seats across Australia now,” he said.

“I’m proud of the part I’ve played in that because it’s political competition driving an outcome and maybe we achieved more by not being elected than most people do by being elected,” he laughed.

Tony Windsor is familiar with negotiating in a hung parliament and said while it is likely to be a Liberal government, he would not like to be Malcolm Turnbull.

“There are three options the first most likely is a hung parliament, the second most likely is Turnbull with a slim majority and the third is a hung parliament with Labor, so anything could happen, it’s just incredible and then there is the mixture in the senate,” he said.

“I wouldn’t like to be Malcolm Turnbull right now, he’s made a few bad calls in terms of this whole election so his own people wouldn’t be enamoured with him,” he said.

Tony Windsor said he remains passionate about some key issues in the electorate and he will still lobby on behalf of local people.

“I’ve still got good connections in the senate and the house and I’ll maintain those relationships and if I see something that I think is wrong for our people I’ll stick my bid in,” said Mr Windsor.

“I’m going to be very involved with some political issues whether I’m in the Parliament or not, with the groundwater issue on the Liverpool Plains and the National Broadband issue I think we’ve got to do as much as we can,” he said.

“I’ve done that in the last three years particularly in relation to the water trigger I keep talking about, when Abbott was Prime Minster they wanted to get rid of it and water it down, well I spent some time in Canberra talking to the cross bench and they were able to stop it, so I’m not going away on the things I actually believe in,” Tony Windsor said.

 

 

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