Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Labor has resolved to stay out of the Farrer byelection in the hope its supporters will vote strategically to help stop One Nation winning the seat.

The decision not to contest was also based on the assumption Labor had no chance of winning the seat, which has been held by either the Nationals or the Liberals since its foundation in 1949.

>Well They are probably making their biggest mistake. Their voters have nowhere to go.

Am I understanding this correctly? “We are not contesting this seat because it has always been filled with a right wing party and we’re hoping they don’t go extremist right wing”?

Yeah. It is silly because the electorate of Farrer has been redrawn over the years to swallow the electorates around it when they weren’t wholly traditionally conservative. They have basically thrown caution to the winds by expecting their traditional voters to vote against one notion.