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Article: Fed: Voters were not penalising me, says Natasha Stott Despoja
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2002
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Fed: Voters were not penalising me, says Natasha Stott Despoja
CANBERRA, Feb 11 AAP - Australian Democrats leader Natasha Stott
Despoja today denied
she was personally to blame for her party's poor showing in the South
Australian election.
Support for the Democrats dropped nine percentage points in Saturday'
s election and
Prime Minister John Howard has suggested Senator Stott Despoja lacks
the substance of
her predecessor Meg Lees.
But Senator Stott Despoja blamed other factors for the fall in
support and said her
leadership was secure.
"I don't necessarily think the loss of votes are a consequence
of me personally," she
told reporters.
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