Territory Alliance’s Robyn Lambley considers her future political career

ARALUEN MLA Robyn Lambley has confirmed her commitment to Territory Alliance

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ARALUEN MLA Robyn Lambley has confirmed her commitment to Territory Alliance, despite the party being in trouble across the NT.

Ms Lambley is currently 26 votes ahead of the CLP’s Damien Ryan in the two-party preferred vote.

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“I’m going to get through this phase and find out what the outcome of the election is before I think about anything else,” she said.

“My speculation around what I may or may not do with regard to my membership of a party or whatever is just so far beyond where I’m thinking at the moment. I just need to sit patiently and wait for the final result which is a long way away.

“I haven’t considered anything. It is a full political party, there’s a lot of people involved so what happens beyond the election is really not up to one individual. If I get re-elected I will be sitting in the Parliament as a member of the Territory Alliance.”

Ms Lambley said she was prepared for the tight race between herself and the former Alice Springs Mayor Mr Ryan.

Territory Alliance's Terry Mills and Robyn Lambley. Picture Katrina Bridgeford.

“I always knew that the contest between Damien and myself would be very big, very close and this is exactly how it’s playing out.”

During campaigning, Ms Lambley removed the Territory Alliance logo from her posters sparking rumours that Territory Alliance was falling apart and she wanted out of the party, accusations the former deputy chief minister denied.

“I had three different batches of signs and they’re all slightly different,” Ms Lambley said.

“If you looked around town I had mixed them all up, there was no sort of agenda there at all. “It was meaningless.”

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The CLP is likely to win Namatjira according to election analysts, after the NT Electoral Commission finished counting postal votes yesterday afternoon.

Bill Yan is currently leading Labor’s Sheralee Taylor in the two-party preferred vote by 25.

Psephologist Kevin Bonham said postal votes in Namatjira had seen “a very strong flow of postals to Bill Yan (CLP) who is now 25 in front and would seem unlikely to be caught”.

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