Graham Gorrel's Friday On My Mind | OPINION

By Graham Gorrel
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:33am, first published September 6 2018 - 8:00pm
FOUNDATION: Labor MP for Wagga, Eddie Graham, greets Queen Elizabeth outside the Wagga Wagga Council Chambers in February, 1954. Picture: CSU Regional Archives Collection – RW43/39
FOUNDATION: Labor MP for Wagga, Eddie Graham, greets Queen Elizabeth outside the Wagga Wagga Council Chambers in February, 1954. Picture: CSU Regional Archives Collection – RW43/39

In July, a reader of this column who is a leading Wagga medical specialist, suggested byelections should be eliminated and in their place, the seat “awarded” to the runner-up at the previous general poll or to a caretaker “nominee” of the party whose MP’s death, resignation or expulsion triggered the byelection.

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