Legal Niches

Atkinson Wins, Then Resigns

By pete_gallagher

Belying the old adage that says quitters never win and winners never quit, Australia is coming off quite the weekend in which incumbent anti-game South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson won re-election then resigned his front bench seat.

Pre-election, Atkinson claimed that no one cared about the lack of an R18+ rating in Australia other than gamers and also predicted that the Gamer4Croydon party would 'struggle' to receive one percent of the votes.

Well, in Croydon, according to ABC.net election data, Gamers4Croydon's candidate against Atkinson, Kat Nicholson, managed to achieve 3.7 percent of the vote, assisting in eating away at 14.4 percent of Atkinson's vote from the previous election. Despite that erosion, Atkinson still won rather easily however, garnering 52.7 percent of the vote. Nicholson came in fifth out of seven candidates in the Croydon suburb, besting candidates from the Family First Party and Australian Democratic Party.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).