Ross Oscar Charles Bohlin is a former

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n politician. He was a

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member of the

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, and held his seat of Drysdale from his defeat of sitting

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member

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at the 2008 election until 2012. Bohlin was born in

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, and served in the

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. He moved to the Northern Territory in the 1990s, and joined the

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in 1998. Ross was not re-endorsed by his own party to stand in the

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. This has been gossip within the CLP since May 2011, after he angered several of his colleagues by publicly supporting the distribution of condoms at a Darwin music festival. Nonetheless, he was surprised when he lost his preselection. CLP Party President Sue Fraser-Adams, was quoted in a newspaper article that "politics doesn't suit him, it's a lot harder than it looks" she went on to say that it was a safe seat for the party. Bohlin announced that he would run as an

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candidate in July.

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