DavidF,

It depends on what you mean by education. The elitist Left is quite sure that it is only 'uneducated’ people who don't agree with them, educated meaning a university education. However, it is quite clear that the 'education’ now provided by tertiary institutions is political brainwashing at the expense of enlightenment and free thinking; political instruction that has nothing to do with the degrees students signed up for to enhance their employment opportunities. Common sense and logic, and the ability to think for oneself, are not on the syllabus.

As a result, we have thousands of unemployable, activist ratbags turned out who are embarrassingly unable to contribute to the economy and good governance of the country. I guess there would be a very high percentage of that sort of 'education' in Wentworth.

I haven't bothered to follow this, but I was just wondering what the first preference vote looked like.

Does anyone know?

The electorate in Wentworth is predominantly
made up of professionals,
high earners, high-income people -
who can afford to live in this very expensive area -
and as such - being in the higher - paid professions,
that require both
knowledge and experience, and being able to hold positions based
on merit, their education speaks for itself.

Hasbeen,

The last voting figures I saw there was a 3% difference in the two party preferences between Phelps and Sharma. Whatever the end result, the 17% margin the party-wrecker had has well and truly gone. If they put Sharma up in the imminent general election, they might well regain the seat, despite the 'educated' Wentworthians some, of whom were 'uneducated' enough to leave Sharma with a respectable showing.

Apparently the confusion lies in errors being made
with the wrong columns being counted. The AEC computers
are now checking thoroughly - and it appears that there's
even more votes coming through for Dr Phelps.

Ha ttbn, a very good campaign can be run with $30k and volunteers. Isn't Cornball able to raise a lousy 30 peanuts, well how many would volunteer, zero. Are not the conservatives supposed to be the "smart money" people? Electoral funding would see most of that returned, providing you score 4% of the primary vote. Now that would be a big ask for the Cornball party. And they could have done a preference swap with The Mad Katter party then one of you would have 2 votes. How is the Fred Nile vote going old chum.

The party wrecker? I didn't realise Tony Abbott was the previous member for Wentworth