I don’t have time to read all of this!
The Basics
Website: https://www.melton.vic.gov.au/Council/About-Council/Councillors/Cr-Kathy-Majdlik
Themes: Serving the community, disability services. Somewhat conservative.
With friends like these…
The Group Voting Ticket
As an ungrouped independent, Majdlik does not get a group voting ticket, but it’s always interesting to see where the independents are placed by other parties.
Unfortunately, we don’t get much of use here. Majdlik is usually grouped with her fellow Ungrouped independent somewhere toward the bottom of the ticket, though Hinch and the ALP rank both the independents fairly highly, with Hinch putting Majdlik at 13th and the ALP putting her at 14th.
Only the Greens and the Australian Liberty Alliance bother to place the two independents separately on their ticket, and in both cases, this placement does not favour Majdlik. The Greens put her in the middle of her ticket, with Grima quite high; and the ALA put her dead last, with Grima in the lower third of the ticket. I suspect the Greens have put her in the ‘don’t know / don’t care’ basket, while deciding that they actively do like Grima; the ALA have almost certainly done the opposite, putting Grima on the ticket wherever, and putting the woman with the foreign-sounding name at the very end of the ticket…
The Body Politic
Policies, Snark, Terrible Theme Songs and Other Observations
