It's taken until the second last week of the election campaign, but I finally have a piece of literature from my local LNP candidate, Leila Abukar. I like that the LNP has pre-selected a woman of Somali origin for my local seat, but it's depressingly familiar (no matter which party you talk about) that she's been nominated for a seat they are unlikely to win. The LNP won Yeerongpilly in 2012 by a very slim margin, and within a year their succesful candidate, Carl Judge, resigned from the party in disgust. He is running this year as an independent but it seems almost certain the seat will return to Labor. Still you can't accuse them of skimping on her campaign. We've been reading about how much the LNP has out-fund-raised Labor and this is evidence right here. All Labor could afford on behalf of Mark Bailey was an ordinary, old-fashioned letter. Enclosed in Abukar's letter, on the other hand, is a glossy, carefully crafted four-page A4 brochure and a
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