Public sector jobs and services will feature heavily when ACT Senate candidates Kate Lundy (ALP), Gary Humphries (Liberal) and Lin Hatfield Dods (Greens) face-off in Canberra on Tuesday 3 August.
The three major parties have been invited to debate the future of the public service in the ACT with questions and answers from the audience.
The Senate debate will be followed in coming weeks by debates featuring the candidates for the ACT lower house seats of Fraser and Canberra.
The debate will be independently moderated by Professor John Warhurst. Professor Warhurst writes a weekly column on politics for the Canberra Times, is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at ANU and was Professor of Political Science at the ANU from 1993-2008.
Senate debate
Kate Lundy (ALP), Gary Humphries (Liberal) and Lin Hatfield Dods (Greens)
3 August
Time 12.15 to 1.30pm
Griffin Centre, 20 Genge Street, Civic
Fraser debate
Andrew Leigh (ALP) Indra Esguerra (Greens) James Milligan (Liberal - yet to confirm)
10 August
5.45 to 7pm
Canberra Club, 45 West Row, Civic
Canberra debate
Gai Brodtmann (ALP) Sue Ellerman (Greens) Giulia Jones (Liberal - yet to confirm)
