What happened to the climate change vote? "What is relevant to people is how much money they can bring home, and how much they can spend, according to how they want to spend it," says Ms Liu. What happened to the climate change vote? Find out how your views compare to Australia's major political parties. Both candidates know one thing well: the suburbs of Chisholm might be sedate, but the seat is politically volatile. While the battle for Chisholm is local, global geopolitics also loom over the contest. That not only opens parties to internal rot — see the scandal over donations made by Huang Xiangmo — but also bred an institutionalised indifference towards Chinese-Australians. That's because when it comes to race, the House of Representatives is not very representative. Now its infections are falling, Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe reveals sexist, racist letter to Parliament, Exercise is 'one of the most powerful weapons' we have against cancer, experts say, When Nayma went to a beach wearing a niqab, she was told to 'get out'.

However, successive redistributions from 1980 onward have moved the electorate south-east, taking in strongly Labor-voting suburbs to balance out the relatively affluent Liberal-leaning suburbs in the north of the seat, and making the seat marginal. mount-waverley-3149, Chisholm appeared on the original paper $5 notes. But the debate in Canberra is stirring unease in the Chinese community. He won't make a prediction about who will win, but says one thing is certain: the race for Chisholm will once again be close. And there's a deeper problem, according to commentator Jieh-Yung Lo, who says both major parties have been quick to simply use the Chinese community as a cash cow to fill their election war chests.

As the graph below shows, two-party preferred results in Chisholm have tracked the overall result for Victoria.

People and money continue to pour into the electorate, particularly from mainland China — for example, a massive new 36 story tower block reaches into the sky at Box Hill with the words Golden Age emblazoned on its side.

While foreign interference generates heated debate, the key contest of ideas in Chisholm may be over economic policy.

"We can't do anything to cause the different communities to fight — it's not good.". If you believe the bookies, Labor's candidate for the marginal seat of Chisholm is on the cusp of becoming the first Chinese-Australian woman to win a seat in Federal Parliament's Lower House. Chisholm is an eastern suburbs electorate that stretches north-south between Koonung Creek and Waverley Road, Warrigal and Elgar Roads marking the western boundary, Springvale Road, Highbury Road and Dandenong Creek the eastern boundary. Chinese-Australian commentator Jieh-Yung Lo says many voters in Chisholm recognise there is a need to tackle foreign interference, but feel they are unfairly being singled out by a hawkish national security establishment and a jingoistic press. (Victories by a party of government are indicated by thick coloured underlining.). "It has actually raised their interest and I think that's a very good thing," she says. Some other Liberals were deeply unimpressed, with NSW Liberal Senator Arthur Sinodinos saying she'd made a "rookie error". Labor finally took the seat in the 1983 landslide that brought Bob Hawke to power, only to lose it in 1987. Now she's the Liberal Party's candidate for the seat.

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story broke into the open once again this week when Ms Liu told a public debate, ABC has also exposed how the Chinese Communist Party has been intensifying.

Keith Lam, who runs a wireless internet business in Box Hill, says many voters in the area are highly leveraged, and feel exposed when house prices go down. "We will keep it fully grandfathered for existing negative gearing properties and investments.". The Liberal margin increases from 1.2% to an estimated 2.9%. chadstone-3148, Arthur describes himself as having spent the last decade working in fire services in dozens of communities across Australia. Some of these concerns are echoed by locals in Chisholm. "If I am the first Chinese-Australian woman in Parliament, it'll be a great honour," Ms Yang tells the ABC.

"I think maybe [the vote is divided] half and half — half and half," he says. It is named after Caroline Chisholm (1808-77), an early social worker and advocate for migration to Australia. Voters come from all backgrounds, but the Chinese community is particularly large, with about one in five voters speaking either Mandarin or Cantonese at home. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Read about our editorial guiding principles and the standards ABC journalists and content makers follow. Banks expressed anger at Turnbull's removal as Prime Minister in late 2018, making accusations of bullying against some of the foot soldiers leading the push against Turnbull. Chisholm was created on the expansion of the Parliament in 1949 and first contested at that year's election.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation will be paid to a group of grey nomads and retirees after a Queensland motorhome dealer was found responsible for causing them financial loss. If you believe the bookies, Labor's candidate for the marginal seat of Chisholm is on the cusp of becoming the first Chinese-Australian woman to win a seat in Federal Parliament's Lower House.

The first member for Chisholm, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, was one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers and a former Olympian, who held the seat until his death on 31 J… Taking this seat off Labor turned out to be crucial in ensuring the Coalition retaining its majority; it meant they had 76 seats, as opposed to the 75 they would have had if Labor had retained this seat. Simply answer a few questions via Vote Compass.

Back in his supermarket, Vincent Liu takes a longer view. "In 2016 there was a lot of misinformation and lies about Labor's policies and we believe that this will happen in 2019 as well," she says. Banks' victory was crucial to the Turnbull government being returned with a one seat majority.

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