FED:Oakeshott rejects poor poll results

AAP General News (Australia)
08-25-2011
FED:Oakeshott rejects poor poll results

CANBERRA, Aug 25 AAP - Key crossbench MP Rob Oakeshott has rejected a local newspaper
poll that suggests his support is plummeting, arguing the editor is an employee of the
federal coalition.

The Port Paper in Port Macquarie ran an exclusive poll this week, which stated that
Mr Oakeshott's primary vote had fallen from 47 per cent in August 2010 to just 14.8 per
cent as of Tuesday.

The three-question survey took in the views of 448 residents in Mr Oakeshott's electorate
of Lyne.

Mr Oakeshott's response on Thursday was brief.

"The editor of The Port Paper is still on the Australian parliamentary staff list as
an employee of the National Party's Luke Hartsuyker," he said in a statement.

"Accordingly, along with referrals to the New South Wales Electoral Commission and
the Press Council, anything written by this paper, which only began in March 2011, will
not attract a response from my office."

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