{"id":194688,"date":"2017-11-07T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=194688"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:50:03","slug":"greens-take-top-spot-on-nanango-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/11\/07\/greens-take-top-spot-on-nanango-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Take Top Spot On Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_194690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194690\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171107draw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-194690\" title=\"20171107 Ballot Draw\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171107draw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171107draw.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171107draw-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Nation candidate Douglas Grant and ALP candidate Ben Rankin at Tuesday&#8217;s ballot draw in Nanango<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193983\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harbison1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193983\" title=\"John Harbison\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harbison1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greens candidate for Nanango John Harbison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>November 7, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greens candidate John Harbison has claimed the top spot on the ballot paper for the Electorate of Nanango at the November 25 State Election.<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the ballot paper order of Nanango candidates was conducted on Tuesday afternoon by Returning Officer Graeme Gillanders at the Electoral Commission of Queensland&#8217;s temporary office in Drayton Street, Nanango.<\/p>\n<p>LNP candidate and sitting Member Deb Frecklington has the second position; Pauline Hanson&#8217;s One Nation candidate Douglas Grant is in third spot; and the ALP&#8217;s Ben Rankin rounds out the ballot paper.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations for candidates for the election closed at noon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>By this time, only the four candidates previously announced for Nanango had nominated.<\/p>\n<p>Two candidates &#8211; Mr Rankin and Mr Grant &#8211; were present for the ballot draw, while Mrs Frecklington sent a representative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB. Remember that electorate boundaries have changed. Check the new boundaries for Nanango <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southburnett.biz\/pdfs\/2017nanango.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> <\/strong>(2.5Mb PDF)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194368\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-194368\" title=\"20171102 Voting\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting-263x163.jpg 263w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171102voting-285x177.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A list of polling booths for the November 25 State Election has been released by the ECQ (Photo: AEC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>Information For Voters<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Applications for postal votes opened on October 29 and close on November 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Postal voting and Electoral Visitor voting began at 4:00pm on Tuesday. The cut-off for the return of postal ballot papers is 5:00pm on Tuesday, December 5.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-poll voting in person will begin at 9:00am on Monday, November 13, and will close at 6:00pm on Friday, November 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-poll voting in the South Burnett will be available at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Blackbutt<\/strong> (QGAP Office) Council Building<br \/>\n69 Hart Street, Blackbutt<br \/>\nOffice hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kilkivan<\/strong> (QGAP Office) Council Building<br \/>\n26 Bligh Street, Kilkivan<br \/>\nOffice hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kingaroy<\/strong> &#8211; SBcare<br \/>\n90 Kingaroy Street, Kingaroy<br \/>\nOffice hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nanango<\/strong> &#8211; Returning Officer<br \/>\n61-65 Drayton Street, Nanango<br \/>\nNovember 13-23, weekdays 9:00am-5:00pm<br \/>\nNovember 24, 9:00am-6:00pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Polling Booths in the Nanango Electorate will be open <strong>from 8:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday, November 25<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackbutt State School<\/li>\n<li>Booie Hall<\/li>\n<li>Brooklands Rural Fire Brigade<\/li>\n<li>Cherbourg Council Chambers<\/li>\n<li>Cloyna State School<\/li>\n<li>Coolabunia State School<\/li>\n<li>Coominya State School<\/li>\n<li>Cooyar State School<\/li>\n<li>Crows Nest State School<\/li>\n<li>Durong Community Hall<\/li>\n<li>Esk State School<\/li>\n<li>Fernvale State School<\/li>\n<li>Goomeri State School<\/li>\n<li>Inverlaw Farmers Hall<\/li>\n<li>Kilkivan State School<\/li>\n<li>Kilcoy Memorial Hall<\/li>\n<li>Kingaroy State High School<\/li>\n<li>Kingaroy &#8211; St John&#8217;s Lutheran School<\/li>\n<li>Kingaroy &#8211; Taabinga State School<\/li>\n<li>Kumbia State School<\/li>\n<li>Maidenwell Hall<\/li>\n<li>Mondure Community Hall<\/li>\n<li>Moore Soldiers Memorial Hall<\/li>\n<li>Mount Kilcoy State School<\/li>\n<li>Mount Tarampa State School<\/li>\n<li>Murgon &#8211; South Burnett PCYC<\/li>\n<li>Nanango State School<\/li>\n<li>Proston State School<\/li>\n<li>Quinalow State School<\/li>\n<li>Tansey Hall<\/li>\n<li>Tingoora State School<\/li>\n<li>Toogoolawah State School<\/li>\n<li>Wheatlands State School<\/li>\n<li>Wondai Memorial Town Hal<\/li>\n<li>Wooroolin State School<\/li>\n<li>Yarraman State School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wheelchair access at these polling booths can be checked <a href=\"https:\/\/results.ecq.qld.gov.au\/elections\/state\/state2017\/Nanango\/districtProfile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens candidate John Harbison has claimed the top spot on the ballot paper for the Nanango<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":194690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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