What role could speed cameras have played in the Victorian election outcome? Like many slow burning issues that have built up over the last four years, speed cameras have been the subject of unrelenting campaigns by the Herald Sun and the Liberal Party. Speed cameras have been portrayed as primarily a revenue raising tool rather [...]
Just a quick blog today. According to my car mechanic, Labor lost because of MyKi, tram conductors, desalination, Kennett and Brumby. Let me explain. According to my car mechanic, MyKi became emblematic of Labor’s inability to get public transport in order. Behind MyKi was a host of other issues, like safety on trains, over crowding [...]
I’m inclined to agree with Peter Brent and Phil Quin when looking at the 2010 Victorian election: Brent: It looks like the Brumby government is gone and the Reasons are arriving. The Reasons follow the facts. Everybody has one. Transport, arrogance and so on. The usual ones and some others. There’ll be nagging and scolding [...]
There are many reasons that I’m voting Labor this Saturday, but they ultimately boil down to the fact that Labor is the only party that will take real action on climate change, rather than spouting slogans (Greens Party) or denying there’s a problem (Liberal Party). Labor’s climate change policies could be better – I’ve committed [...]
Brian Walters SC, the Greens Party candidate for Melbourne has admitted that he distributed a leaflet that incorrectly claimed Labor accepted donations for tobacco companies. Labor has banned donations from tobacco companies since 2004. Walters blamed the leaflet on an unnamed “volunteer researcher”. The Greens will stop distributing an election flyer that incorrectly stated the [...]
Yesterday, the Greens Party journal The Age reported that a party candidate in Gippsland Cheryl Wragg had publicly disagreed with Greg Barber’s energy policy: Ms Wragg, who calls herself an ”industrial Green”, suggested that Mr Barber’s stance was pitched at inner-city voters and did not reflect the views of people in central Gippsland. ”The Greens [...]
Jeremy Sear, a lawyer and pro-Greens blogger has stood up for the Greens Party preferencing an anti-Muslim, anti-Choice independent candidate in Essendon. “Sometimes, on balance, Labor is even worse than a slightly anti-choice independent.” According to Sear, is it better for the Greens Party to preference the anti-Choice candidate in question – Paul Guiliano – [...]
Less than two weeks out from the Victorian election, and Federal Greens Party Leader Bob Brown – highly regarded as being an honest and ethical politician – has decided to send out an email smear to Greens Party supporters in a cheap attempt to raise money. Bob Brown has long argued for a higher standard [...]
The Clean Energy Council has revealed that up to $9 billion in renewable energy investment could be put at risk by the election of the Baillieu Government. This equates to 650 new jobs each year by 2016, and a massive 3000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity. The risk comes from the Liberal Party’s opposition to [...]
Lawyer and Greens party member Jeremy Sear decided to attack the integrity of Bronwyn Pike: Did the Christian lobby offer Pike some assistance against her Greens opponent Brian Walters if she gave up any principles regarding our secular education system? This is no doubt “tit for tat” in the criticism of Walters using the “cab [...]
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