Nova Peris with her children Jack, 9, and Destiny, 11. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Daily Telegraph
LABOR'S national executive is expected to unanimously endorse Nova Peris for the party's top Senate pick in the NT at a meeting in Melbourne today, but at least three other indigenous candidates are expected to enter the ballot.
High-profile former territory Labor MPs Marion Scrymgour, Des Rogers and Karl Hampton were expected to enter, but a "captain's pick" by Prime Minister Julia Gillard will ensure they will lose to Ms Peris.
A Labor source said the vote was expected to be 20-0 in favour of Ms Peris, the national executive falling in line behind Ms Gillard's choice.
One party source said the meeting to decide the ballot was merely "going through the motions" and that the Olympic gold medallist would win overwhelmingly.
A confident Ms Peris has arranged a press conference in Darwin after the ballot today.
"The Prime Minister doesn't stand up and say she's made a `captain's choice' only for the decision to be overturned a few days later," a Labor source said.
"For the life of me, I can't see why the national executive even invited other nominations.
"The decision has clearly already been made."
Ms Peris was not even a member of the ALP when she was chosen.
Mr Rogers, who stood in the Palmerston seat of Brennan in the last Territory election, said Julia Gillard's interference in NT Labor affairs smacked of "dictatorship".
"I think anyone looking at this from the outside would be appalled," he said.
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