Opposition says decision in regional electorates made to contain potential influence of One Nation’s Mark Latham
Labor is being criticised for directing preferences to the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party in a key marginal seat despite helping to pass a motion that condemned its leader, Robert Borsak, over an alleged verbal “threat of violence” against a female MP.
Material filed with the NSW Electoral Commission shows Labor is directing voters to preference the Shooters party in the seat of Upper Hunter ahead of the state election on 25 March. Held by the Nationals on a wafer-thin margin of 0.5%, it is one of two lower house seats – along with the electorate of Dubbo, where the Shooters hope to unseat Nationals MP Dugald Saunders – where Labor has directed its preferences to the minor party.
Among the 15 seats is Murray, held by former Shooters MP Helen Dalton, who is now an independent. Although the party has ranked Dalton second in its lower house preferences, in the upper house it recommended voters in Murray put the Shooters third. It comes less than six months after Labor supported a motion moved by Dalton in the lower house that condemned Borsak for comments he allegedly made in parliament about her.
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