Whichever party wins government at the upcoming federal election, the heightened focus on the Northern Territory in the lead-up is welcome proof its challenging issues aren’t just being swept under the rug.
Anthony Albanese says a re-elected Labor government would "stop the sort of cuts that we saw under the former government".Summer in the Northern Territory outback, when temperatures regularly soar above 40 degrees, isn't usually the traditional time for the nation's top politicians to visit.
Anthony Albanese was in Alice Springs on Friday to announce a funding agreement that he said marked "a great day for the territory".But both are hungrily sought after by the nation's political leaders, with Mr Dutton going as far as to suggest that the Coalition's path to victory in Canberra is reliant on winning the two.
The kicker to that is, for most of that period it was held by one MP — Labor veterann Warren Snowdon, a stalwart from the Hawke government eraIn the north, the electorate of Solomon comprises just Darwin along with parts of the nearby satellite city of Palmerston and the rural area.Both parties have singled out Labor incumbent Luke Gosling's seat of Solomon as a key battleground in the upcoming election.
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