THROUGH a massive advertising blitz, businessman Clive Palmer has made himself the face of the United Australia Party in this federal election.
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But Geoff Scully, the party's candidate in the seat of Newcastle, reckons it will be his face that the city gets to know.
Although he doesn't live in the electorate and Labor holds the seat by a margin of almost 14 per cent, Mr Scully says in an on-camera interview with the Newcastle Herald that he has a "great chance of winning" the seat in the May 18 poll.
"I'm not a loser, I'm not here to run second," Mr Scully says. "I'm here to win, I'm here to [bring] change."
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