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Selena Uibo named as new Labor leader after election loss
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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9/3/2024
The Northern Territory Labor party has named its new leader following its wipe out at the election. Selena Uibo is the first Indigenous woman in Australia’s history to serve as leader of a major party.
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Selena Yubo has spoke to herself today at a press conference as a born and bred Territorian
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who hails from part of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory's top end. Prior to politics,
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prior to entering politics, she was a school teacher in 2016. She successfully ran for
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the seat of Arnhem Land and then for the seat of Arnhem, apologies, and then went on to
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join the cabinet in 2018. She served in a number of different roles, including as Attorney
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General, as Health Minister in the last couple of years, and in a number of senior portfolios
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across the government. Now after Labor's landslide election wipeout ten days ago, Ms Yubo was
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considered one of the top two contenders for the leadership alongside Chansey Paik, and
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today it was announced by Territory Labor that she was successful in that. Of course,
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given the wipeout that her party has experienced, she has a long way to go to rebuild her party
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and get it back into a form where it can contest the next election.
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So it's a formidable path ahead. What will be her first task as leader?
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Well, today at a press conference she was saying that she really wanted Territory Labor
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to get back to listening to people. That challenge will be most crucial in urban parts of the
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Northern Territory. Territory Labor have five seats in this new parliament, are on track
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to have five seats, the counting is still underway, and that's, I guess, contrasted
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with 17 seats that the country Liberals have. They have an outright majority and will form
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the next government. So for Labor, there's a long way back. Ms Yubo saying that she wants
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to get back to listening to Territorians, particularly in those suburban parts of the
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Territory where Labor only have one seat. In Darwin, for instance, that's if Natasha
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Files holds on to her seat. This is how she was, I guess, when she was asked that question
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of how she wants to go about this rebuilding process, this was what she said today.
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It's absolutely going to be a difficult challenge. There's no understating that, but it's one
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that we're up for. We're going to work hard, particularly Bush members. We're used to rolling
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up our sleeves and getting in and doing the best that we can. That's not going to change
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now in this role. We're going to continue to do that as local members, but we're also
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going to do that at the higher level in the leadership role as the opposition.
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Now many of the federal members in the Northern Territory, or two of the federal members for
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Labor in the Northern Territory, Luke Gosling and Mariam Skrindja, will be looking closely
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at a review that Territory Labor and the federal ALP will be taking into this massive election
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loss that Labor copped two weeks ago in order to get some lessons away about what they need
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to do, because obviously a federal election is just around the corner. It has to be called
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before May next year. For those two sitting MPs, both of whom belong to Labor, they can't
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afford to lose their seats without throwing the Albanese government into a minority either.
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This result is having federal ramifications and they'll be paying very close attention to it.
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