Former Canberra Liberals leader Alistair Coe.
THREE Canberra Liberal candidates will nominate to fill former opposition leader Alistair Coe’s seat in Yerrabi.
A Canberra Liberals spokesperson confirmed James Milligan, Dr Krishna Nadimpalli and Jacob Vadakkedathu, previously unsuccessful candidates in Yerrabi at October’s election, will nominate for the vacancy, following Mr Coe’s departure from politics.
It’s likely, the count-back of votes in the Gungahlin-based seat will see former Liberal MLA James Milligan re-elected.
ACT Electoral commissioner Damian Cantwell was notified by the speaker of Mr Coe’s formal resignation today (March 12).
Mr Cantwell expects the re-count to take place on March 25 and a result declared the following day.
In the first of an occasional series on partners, reporter
BELINDA STRAHORN talks to Susan Cantwell, wife of ACT Electoral Commissioner Damian Cantwell.
THE first thing you feel when you meet Susan Cantwell, 55, is her warmth. It beams from within and fills the room. There’s her big, blissed-out smile, which makes her eyes crimple, and the way she makes conversation so easily it feels like you’re old friends.
She’s a short lady, impeccably dressed and seems fit enough to race in a marathon. But to do that, feels like I’d be doing her a discredit. In the end, the way she looks is not half as interesting as who she is, what she does and the kindness that’s evident in her daily life.
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IAN MEIKLEÂ muses about words.Â
WORDS are to me as horseshoes are to a blacksmith; I forge the adjectives, hammer the verbs and cobble them into sentences that are shaped into paragraphs, columns, pages and papers.Â
Ian Meikle.
Am I a wordsmith, I vainly wondered. “A skilled user of words,” Google confirmed. A lifetime in journalism hasn’t been a waste then, though truth be told, I’ve never felt particularly gifted with an especially grandiose vocabulary (though I do know what
crapulent
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feel words. Other wordsmiths’ toes curl at the mere mention of a gerund and they take split infinitives very personally. Not me. I like the metre (rhythm) of active news reporting and can be very forgiving in my editing, favouring substance over form.Â