Talk:Tsebin Tchen

Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 17:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

4th ticket position

I've changed:

At the 1993 election, Tchen was preselected on the Liberal Senate ticket for Victoria, in the normally unwinnable, but sometime surprising, fourth position - for example, in the 2004 election, Queensland returned four Coalition senators.

to:

At the 1993 election, Tchen was preselected on the Liberal Senate ticket for Victoria, in the unwinnable fourth position.

Why? The Coalition didn't get four Queensland Senators elected on one ticket, but on two separate tickets. It's generally accepted that had the Liberal and National Parties run a joint ticket in Queensland in 2004 that they would not have had four Senators elected. (The separate tickets meant that both the Lib3 and Nat1 candidates shared the surplus Coalition vote, allowing both to remain in the count longer and then soak up the preferences of likeminded minor parties. Something not possible in a joint ticket where the fourth position candidate would have had too little surplus to go far in the count.)

First Chinese-Australian elected?

"Tchen was the first Chinese-Australian ... elected to the federal parliament of Australia." The article on Bill O'Chee makes the same claim. Intelligent Mr Toad 2 (talk) 08:59, 30 April 2016 (UTC)