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FIND&nbsp;out about the Katherine candidates at&nbsp;Katherine&nbsp;Times’&nbsp;free election forum to be held tonight, Thursday, August 18&nbsp;at the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Stuart Highway, Katherine East from 5.30pm to&nbsp;7pm.&nbsp; The forum is open to the public and guests are asked to arrive from 5pm to ensure a prompt start.&nbsp; Hosted by the&nbsp;Katherine Times, the event will provide a platform for the&nbsp;candidates vying to represent Katherine in the next term. The&nbsp;candidates standing in the seat of Katherine are: incumbent Member for Katherine&nbsp;Willem Westra van Holthe (Country Liberals Party),&nbsp;Sandra Nelson (ALP),&nbsp;Braedon Earley (1 Territory),&nbsp;Chris&nbsp;Righton (Shooters and&nbsp;Fishers), Leon&nbsp;Celliar (Independent) and&nbsp;Dean David (Independent). At the&nbsp;forum, candidates will be asked a series of questions and the event will be live streamed to the Katherine Times website and Facebook page.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Katherine Times&nbsp;has invited all six candidates to attend the&nbsp;forum, which will be moderated by Australian Community Media’s&nbsp;Queensland/NT&nbsp;managing editor&nbsp;Brad Cooper.&nbsp; Australian Community Media –&nbsp;the&nbsp;publisher of&nbsp;Katherine Times –&nbsp;is a&nbsp;division&nbsp;of Fairfax Media.

Forum: Katherine Times will host a free election forum tonight, Thursday, August 18 at the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Stuart Highway, Katherine East from 5.30pm to 7pm. 

Country Liberals Party: Incumbent Member for Katherine Willem Westra van Holthe is contesting his seat in the upcoming Northern Territory elections. Mr Westra van Holthe has held the seat since the 2008 elections. He said he believed Katherine would benefit best by having a member of the CLP elected to the seat. “I’m the right person for the position.” he said.  

Independent: Independent candidate Leon Cellier said he has lived in Katherine for about 15 years. A former businessman, he now works part-time in Katherine, which allows him to focus on the election campaign. He said Katherine needed to be represented in government by an independent voice, rather than by a member who “had to take a party line”.

Australian Labor Party: ALP candidate Sandra Nelson said she was running for the seat of Katherine because she believed the town had not had the representation in government it deserved. A resident of Katherine for four and a half years, Ms Nelson said she had no ambition other than “to be elected as the member for Katherine and to represent Katherine in The NT government,” she said.  

1 Territory: Katherine candidate for the 1 Territory Party Braedon Earley said his passion for the town rested in the fact that “Katherine is where I’m from”. Currently a resident of Darwin, Mr Earley said he would move back to Katherine if he was elected. He expressed concern about the NT water supply and said “having it under threat by fracking companies beggars belief”.   

Independent: Independent candidate Dean David said he was contesting the seat of Katherine because the town had seen a lot of change over the past several years, with not all of the changes taking Katherine in the right direction. He said he had lived in Katherine all his life, with family connections going back 74 years. “My heart and soul is in Katherine,” he said.

Shooters and Fishers Party: Shooters and Fishers candidate Chris Righton said he lives and works in Katherine. He is married, with two young children. He said Katherine was “a great little town that deserves to be allowed to grow”. "It’s become a little bit stagnant over the past few years and I’d like to see it go forward,” he said. “I’d like to help it progress.”

FIND&nbsp;out about the Katherine candidates at&nbsp;Katherine&nbsp;Times’&nbsp;free election forum to be held tonight, Thursday, August 18&nbsp;at the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Stuart Highway, Katherine East from 5.30pm to&nbsp;7pm.&nbsp;

The forum is open to the public and guests are asked to arrive from 5pm to ensure a prompt start.&nbsp;

Hosted by the&nbsp;Katherine Times, the event will provide a platform for the&nbsp;candidates vying to represent Katherine in the next term.

The&nbsp;candidates standing in the seat of Katherine are: incumbent Member for Katherine&nbsp;Willem Westra van Holthe (Country Liberals Party),&nbsp;Sandra Nelson (ALP),&nbsp;Braedon Earley (1 Territory),&nbsp;Chris&nbsp;Righton (Shooters and&nbsp;Fishers), Leon&nbsp;Celliar (Independent) and&nbsp;Dean David (Independent).

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At the&nbsp;forum, candidates will be asked a series of questions and the event will be live streamed to the Katherine Times website and Facebook page.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;Katherine Times&nbsp;has invited all six candidates to attend the&nbsp;forum, which will be moderated by Australian Community Media’s&nbsp;Queensland/NT&nbsp;managing editor&nbsp;Brad Cooper.&nbsp;

Australian Community Media –&nbsp;the&nbsp;publisher of&nbsp;Katherine Times –&nbsp;is a&nbsp;division&nbsp;of Fairfax Media.

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