Despite being a micro-party, the Victorian Socialists are campaigning with militant efficiency this state election. VictoriaVotes
Labor has preselected Lauren O’Dwyer, associate director of First Nations foundations at the Arts Centre, and a former staffer toLabor and the Democratic Labour Party have held Richmond for more than a century, but an increased Greens vote, and the decision by the Liberals to preference the Greens over Labor, are raising the likelihood Richmond will go to the Greens for the first time.
Party members on door-knocking duty are equipped with an app called Knockify on their mobile phones. As several volunteers fan out across Fitzroy’s backstreets, Ward demonstrates how it works. In this way, Ward says, the party has signed up more than 1000 volunteers to work on polling day on Saturday, while other parties struggle to garner enough volunteers for every booth.
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