It’s been a busy week in electioneering

Where once were three, then there were five. Where yesterday there were five, now there are seven.

Seven, count them, seven candidates for the seat of Hume.

The full and final roll call now is Charles Liptak (Family First), Greg Butler (Democrats), Robin Saville (Labor Party), Lisa Milat (Liberal Democrats), Kevin Watchirs (Greens), Karen Buttigieg (Christian Democratic Party) and Alby Schultz (Liberal Party).

The Magnificent Seven? The Secret Seven?

Time will tell.

Whether the more recent entrants have left their runs too late also remains to be seen.

You’d like to think that everyone that stands for an election does so with a hope of winning, wouldn’t you. But one candidate has already said they won’t be visiting Goulburn at all or travelling around the electorate for that matter.

A cynic might say some stand just to gain a public platform for their cause, and to win some concessions from other parties with no interest in winning the election.

You almost want to vote them in to teach them a lesson but I’m reminded of something my mum used to say about cutting my nose off.

By the way, my dog has no nose. How does he smell? Bloody awful.

I got a million of ‘em.

Anyhoo, to the day that was.

Alby Schultz provided us with a summary of his week in review.

Finally. I might have mentioned it once or twice that if they advise us what they’ve done, or are going to do, we will record it.

But I digress.

Alby’s odyssey took him to the far flung corners of the realm, including Cowra where he participated in Pollies for Small Business by rolling up his sleeves and helped out at a Newsagency; Boorowa, where he unveiled the plaque at the opening of St Joseph’s Primary School’s new library (while simultaneously critiquing the BER which built it); Yass, where he spoke to local people; and, today, to Young where he spoke to local people, met with the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority to discuss local ‘green’ projects and finished the evening with his wife Gloria at the Young Hilltops Wine Dinner organised by local vignerons in the Young region.