Independent Wilkie chooses a side
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Today there’s been a bright spot of news in the waiting game that this election has become – a short time ago Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie announced that he would go with the Gillard government. Wilkie has a political past that includes Liberal, and Green and was seen as something of a wild card, but Tasmanian lawyer , former Liberal staffer and political commentator Greg Barnes says he’s not surprised at Wilkie’s decision. Labor can now claim 74 seats to the Coalition’s 73 and Deakin University politics lecturer Dr Geoff Robinson says it definitely moves the country a little closer to havng a government again.
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