Английская Википедия:2018 Batman by-election

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox election A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Batman took place on 17 March 2018.

The by-election was called as a result of the resignation on 1 February 2018 of David Feeney, the incumbent backbench Australian Labor Party MP. The ALP candidate, Ged Kearney, won the by-election.

Background

Шаблон:Main On 6 December 2017, amidst the ongoing citizenship crisis engulfing several MPs, Labor MP David Feeney revealed that he was unable to produce documentation confirming he had renounced citizenship of either the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. Consequently, Feeney voluntarily referred himself to the High Court of Australia, considering his likely breach of Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. By 19 January 2018, Feeney remained unable to produce any documentary evidence from British or Irish authorities that he took steps to renounce his citizenship and entitlements, and the High Court granted him an extension to 1 February to allow his legal team to continue their search for the relevant documents. At a press conference on 1 February 2018, Feeney announced he would resign from the seat and from politics effective immediately, choosing not to stand as a candidate at the by-election. The date for the by-election was set at 17 March 2018, the same day as the South Australian state election.

The seat was fought by the incumbent Labor Party and the Greens, who received a 9.6% swing towards them in the previous election. Despite finishing first in the primary vote, Greens' candidate Alex Bhathal was defeated by Feeney on the two-candidate-preferred vote 51%-49% at the previous election. Feeney had held the seat for the Labor Party since 2013. It was the sixth time Bhathal had contested the seat, having previously run in 2001, 2004, 2010, 2013 and 2016. The Australian Electoral Commission confirmed that 111,857 people were enrolled to vote in the by-election.

Campaign

The environment, and specifically the proposed Adani Carmichael coal mine, were focused on heavily by the Greens in the campaign. Labor leader Bill Shorten and Kearney both expressed their doubts about the project, but did not rule it out completely. On the day of the by-election, an environmental protester dressed as a fish accosted Kearney and Shorten at a polling booth.

Divisions within the Greens' campaign assisted Kearney. During the by-election campaign, an internal complaint of bullying by Bhathal was leaked to the media, and members of the Greens' Darebin branch requested her expulsion from the party following Bhathal's support for Lidia Thorpe in the 2017 Northcote state by-election.

On 14 March, Kearney's campaign issued an apology for printing campaign material in Greek under the heading "Macedonian".

Key dates

Key dates in relation to the by-election were:

• Thursday, 1 February 2018 – Speaker acceptance of resignation
• Wednesday, 7 February 2018 – Issue of writ
• Wednesday, 14 February 2018 – Close of electoral rolls (8pm)
• Thursday, 22 February 2018 – Close of nominations (12 noon)
• Friday, 23 February 2018 – Declaration of nominations (12 noon)
• Tuesday, 27 February 2018 – Start of early voting
• Saturday, 17 March 2018 – Polling day (8am to 6pm)
• Friday, 30 March 2018 – Last day for receipt of postal votes
• Friday, 18 May 2018 – Last day for return of writs

Candidates

• The Liberal Party declined to field a candidate.

Candidates in ballot paper order
Party		Candidate	Background
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Rise Up	Yvonne Gentle	Gentle is the National Secretary of Rise Up Australia and was the party's federal candidate for Dunkley in 2013 and Flinders in 2016.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Labor	Ged Kearney	On 2 February 2018, Labor leader Bill Shorten formally announced that Ged Kearney, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), was Labor's candidate at the by-election. Kearney had previously been pre-selected for the state seat of Brunswick at the 2018 state election, but resigned from the candidacy to contest Batman.
width=3pt Шаблон:Australian party style|	Greens	Alex Bhathal	Greens leader Richard Di Natale confirmed to Guardian Australia that Alex Bhathal would run for the seat as the Greens' candidate. Bhathal has been the Greens' candidate for the seat and lost 6 times and 5 times for nearby seats, and is a former social worker who has sat on the Darebin Ethnic Communities Council.
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Conservatives	Kevin Bailey	Australian Conservatives director Lyle Shelton announced that Kevin Bailey, a businessman and former SAS soldier, was the party's candidate at the by-election.
Шаблон:Australian party style|	People's	Tegan Burns	Burns is not believed to have run for office before and was described by the party as "highly passionate about youth and the criminal justice system".
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Liberty Alliance	Debbie Robinson	Robinson is the president of the Australian Liberty Alliance and was the party's lead candidate for the Senate in Western Australia in 2016.
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Independent	Teresa van Lieshout	Perennial candidate for eight state and federal elections, most recently the Canning by-election in 2015, Van Lieshout is a self-published author on social, theological and political issues, and the founder of the unregistered Voter Rights Party.
		Adrian Whitehead	Whitehead is an environmentalist and the founder of the unregistered Save the Planet Party. He previously contested Corangamite at the 2013 federal election.
Шаблон:Australian party style|	#Sustainable	Mark McDonald	McDonald is an IT engineer and lives in Preston.
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Animal Justice	Miranda Smith	Smith previously contested the seat of Melbourne at the 2016 federal election.

Polling

Batman by-election polling

Date	Firm	Sample	Primary vote				TPP vote
			ALP	GRN	OTH		ALP	GRN
2018 by-election			43.1%	39.5%	17.4%		54.4%	45.6%
18–20 Feb 2018	Lonergan Research	693	40%	39%	16%		53%	47%
2016 election			35.3%	36.2%	28.5%		51.0%	49.0%

See also

• List of Australian federal by-elections
• Electoral results for the Division of Batman
• 2017 Northcote state by-election

External links

• 2018 Batman by-election (ABC Elections)