Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Hansard source

it is a very rare occasion—in fact, I think this is unique in Australian history—that we have seen the major opposition party in a parliamentary forum in Australia be reduced to two. To two! So there are now only two CLP members in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. The former Chief Minister, Mr Giles, who was the member for Braitling in my own town of Alice Springs—a blue ribbon Liberal seat—is gone. He is no longer there. In fact, he packed up so quickly you couldn't see him for dust. He has gone from town and 'we don't know where he are'. But we have a fair idea where he is not going to be: we know he will not be in the Legislative Assembly.

But there are a number of things that are important to note. Of course, all the new members on the Labor side and particularly, I might say, Dale Wakefield, who took over his seat of Braitling, and another really unique win—the first time in the Northern Territory's history that Labor has ever won the seat of Katherine. Sandra Nelson, a formidable candidate, defeated a former aspirant to the Chief Minister's position in the Northern Territory.

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