AUSTRALIAN ELECTION
Little interest evident (N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY, Nov. 20. It is anybody’s guess just how many Australians would vote in tomorrow’s Senate election were they not forced to by law. But it is a fair bet that a large proportion of the six million enrolled to vote would simply stay home, if given the chance. The campaign has been dreary, with little to fire the interest of the man in the street. It has just drifted on, with the voters seemingly uninterested and bemused by it all; there were no great issues to fire the imagination of the electorate. One thing has emerged from the election, however, that has been a renewed call from some quarters for a combined election of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in future. Half of the 60 seats in the Senate are at stake tomorrow, but once the votes are in and counted and the preferences distributed, ob-. servers expect that there will be almost no alteration in the state of the parties. Certainly the election will not change the Government.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32460, 21 November 1970, Page 17
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180AUSTRALIAN ELECTION Press, Volume CX, Issue 32460, 21 November 1970, Page 17
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