Posted in Agriculture, Balance of Power, Bob Brown, Budget, Christine Milne, Environment, Forestry, Greens, Senate, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Water, YouTube on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As we say a sad farewell to Kerry Nettle and the Democrats (you can read Bob’s valedictory speech to the Dems here and we’ll post Kerry’s soon - here), we saw a fascinating signpost today to the interesting place that the new Senate will be when we come back from winter recess in late August.
Christine [...]
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With the Senate numbers still to be finalised - and maybe a while off - we do have one milestone we can confirm: achieving the million votes mark in the Senate.
Latest projections (with a significant number of votes still to be counted) have 1,080,000 Australians having cast their first preference Senate vote for the Greens. [...]
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So, election day is here at last. After a great, long campaign, now it’s fingernail biting time…
I spent the morning at a rather conservative booth in Canberra. Good to see lots of people coming straight up to us asking for the Greens how-to-vote, and crossing their fingers at us on the way back out again.
Nothing [...]
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Posted in Balance of Power, Christine Milne, Climate change, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Greens, Nukes (disarmament related), Nukes (energy related), Renewable energy on November 22, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I am very worried - and I think all Australians ought to be equally worried - that Australia’s rapidly growing involvement in the global nuclear industry has been shrouded in silence during this campaign. Brief mentions by Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report in his leaders’ interviews this week are essentially the sum total of [...]
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The blogosphere has played a key role in shaping how this campaign has been perceived, particularly in terms of shining a clear light on poll results and trends. Its next challenge is how it covers election night itself. My hope is that it can offer some serious analysis to help inform the mainstream media’s coverage, [...]
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At the 2004 election, some 69,000 Australians voted overseas. That’s almost an entire extra electorate voting outside the country.
This poses a unique challenge for smaller parties trying to break the Labor / Liberal duopoly. It’s extremely important for us to have direct contact with voters because, without being prompted to think about other options, many [...]
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Posted in Balance of Power, Bob Brown, Election 07, Greens, Senate, YouTube, tagged greens youtube, Senate, brown, bob, advertisement on November 16, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Our office gets lots of comments that Bob should be cloned. Well we have finally done it (on an advert anyway). Today the Australian Greens launched ‘Double Action’ vote ad to win Senate balance.
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Posted in Balance of Power, Cartoons, Election 07, Senate, YouTube, tagged Greens, Senate, balance, power, animation, parliament, system on November 14, 2007 | 24 Comments »
To further explain the implications of The Greens holding balance of power in the Senate, we are proud to bring you the following presentation…
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We’ve had a lot of queries coming in about where our preferences are being directed for those who wish to vote above the line, so I thought I’d post the relevant link to help people out.
The Electoral Commission has a page up with all the State and Territory “group voting tickets”, as they are known. [...]
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Here’s the first of the free-to-air TV statements for this election, this 3 minute one being broadcast on SBS this weekend, I understand. There’ll be a different cut 3 minute statement for ABC and a 10 minute statement later in the campaign.
Once again, tell us your thoughts and please spread it around!
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