The party’s leader, Ellen Sandell, lambasted Labor’s decision on Tuesday to run an open ticket in Prahran, an inner Melbourne seat currently held by the Liberals’ Rachel Westaway on a tiny 1.3% margin.

It means Labor’s how-to-vote material will encourage voters to place their candidate, Meghan Hopper, first on the ballot but will not direct them how to allocate their remaining preferences. Instead, the remaining boxes on its how-to-vote material will probably remain blank.

Labor preferences are key to the Greens cinching back the seat, which they lost in a 2025 byelection.

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[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I never take how to vote cards. I go in with my own prepared list. Sometimes finding meaningful statements from some candidates isn't easy, sometimes they are well meaning, but looneytunes. It's usually easy to get first and last, the tricky bit is sorting out the middle.

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