Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane's primary vote of just over 4 per cent may appear modest, but it is the Socialist Alliance's best-ever result in a seat outside Victoria and its best anywhere at this year's election.
Her 81st birthday is rapidly approaching, but Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane says her campaign for the next federal election has already begun.Socialist Alliance candidate Pat O'Shane received more than 3,200 primary votes in the seat of LeichhardtThe former barrister and magistrate hopes to build on her campaign ahead of the next election
It was the first time the party, a fixture on ballots in inner-city Melbourne and Sydney, had ever run in Leichhardt. Ms O'Shane attracted votes in Cape York towns like Coen but wet weather prevented her from campaigning everywhere. A mobile polling team that visited the communities of Aurukun, Mapoon and Napranum collected more votes for Ms O'Shane than for any other candidate at all.Socialist Alliance national co-convener Sam Wainwright said the result suggested there was a "small but nonetheless growing audience for activist, anti-capitalist politics"."But we do enter election campaigns with a very deliberate purpose of trying to engage people in debate and trying to shift debate to the left.
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