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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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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When parliament resumes I will move to abolish preference deals. Under my plan, voters would be able to number the parties to their own preference ABOVE THE LINE. At present voters wanting their own choice face the complex job of preferencing candidates, rather than parties, below the line.
It is much better to have all voters [...]
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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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As most people who read the election news will know by now, the national preference deal between us and Labor is almost 100% bedded down, with a few more details to be hammered out before we sign it off.
The really good news is that, in exchange for preferences from Greens candidates in marginal electorates on [...]
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Posted in Balance of Power, Blogging, Bob Brown, Christine Milne, Election 07, Greens, Kerry Nettle, Preferences, Rachel Siewert, Senate, Web 2.0, YouTube on October 21, 2007 | 25 Comments »
The audience is now arriving for the People’s Forum, being handed the equipment for ‘the worm’ as they come in. Looks like it’ll be a great turnout!
Thanks to all for the questions from the previous thread. We should get at least a couple of them asked tonight.
More soon…
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This might explain things.
Then again, it might not.
But you get the point, I imagine…
I believe Stephen is planning on doing a series of these during the campaign. Should be fun ;-)
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