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Gladstone region Mayor Matt Burnett will be the Labor Partyâs candidate for the Federal seat of Flynn at the next election.
Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese will visit Gladstone on Thursday to make the announcement.
The development puts Labor in a strong position to capture the seat being vacated by long-time Flynn MP Ken OâDowd, who is retiring and will not contest the next Federal Election due about March, 2022.
Mr OâDowd was elected to the House of Representatives for Flynn in 2010 and re-elected in 2013, 2016 and 2019.
Labor would concede its performance at the 2019 polls was disappointing, but the endorsement of Matt Burnett gives the party a good chance to turn that around.
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