TEN candidates will contest the NSW seat of Murray at the March 25 election, with the ballot order draw staged in Griffith on Thursday.
The contest will include three independents, and a candidate each for The Nationals, Labor, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, The Greens, the Legalise Cannabis Party, the Public Education Party and the Sustainable Australia Party.
Legalise Cannabis Party candidate Adrian Carle drew the coveted top position in the ballot order, while “Riverina State” independent David Landini was the last name on the ballot. Mr Carle could be expected to benefit from any possible “donkey votes”.
Incumbent Helen Dalton, an independent, drew eighth on the ballot.
The Nationals’ candidate, Edward River Council mayor Peta Betts, drew fourth on the ballot.
Labor’s Mirsad (Max) Buljubasic, a poultry worker near Griffith who ran previously in 2015 for the Country Labor Party, drew second position.
The Sustainable Australia Party has 103 candidates at the NSW election, but no information was publicly available about their Murray candidate Michael Florance, who drew third.
Former teacher Kevin Farrell is running for the Public Education Party, a party he formed on August 21 last year. He drew fifth.
The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, which previously won the seat of Murray in the 2019 when Mrs Dalton was their candidate, have named Desiree Gregory as their new candidate and she will sit sixth on the ballot.
Ms Gregory was among four of the party’s unsuccessful candidates who tried to secure a NSW Senate seat in 2022.
No information about Greens candidate Amelia King was available on The Greens NSW website. She drew seventh.
Teacher and former agronomist Greg Adamson, running as an independent, drew ninth.
Candidates
1) Adrian Carle – Legalise Cannabis Party
2) Max Buljabasic – Labor
3) Michael Florance – Sustainable
Australia Party – stop overdevelopment/corruption
4) Peta Betts – The Nationals
5) Kevin Farrell – Public Education Party
6) Desiree Gregory – Shooters, Fishers and Farmers
7) Amelia King – The Greens
8) Helen Dalton – independent
9) Greg Adamson – independent
10) David Landini – independent
