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Auspol March - C U Next Tuesday, NSW This is NSW. It is the largest state in the Australian Commonwealth by both population and economy, and this month, it's having a state election. Being the largest state, it is also the philosophical centre of many of the decisions of the major Australian Federal parties. This also means it's a black hole of corruption, graft and dirty politics, as all the usual suspects of the incestuous slurry that is Australian crony capitalism vie for influence with the executives of the NSW Liberals and NSW Labor Party. NSW politics is legendarily corrupt. No event made this more apparent than the ignominious exit from political life of former Liberal Premier Nick Greiner, due to a finding of corruption made against him by the anti-corruption body he established, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The ICAC has been collecting an impressive collection of scalps since: in particular, Edward Obeid and Ian Macdonald, ALP members of the Legislative Council, who were found accepting massive bribes for favourable government decisions. In 2011, the Liberal/National Coalition romped to a landslide victory over Labor in this environment of corruption. New Premier Barry O'Farrell claimed an end to the era of corrupt politics in NSW and an opening of collaborative and consultative governance. Then Barry O'Farrell was named in ICAC for accepting undeclared gifts from developers literally days after his inauguration as Premier. Since then, fully eleven state MPs and a Lord Mayor have been either kicked out of the Liberal Party or forced to resign their seats over accepting illegal donations (donations from property developers are illegal in NSW). This has had the effect of... not particularly much. The stench of corruption still hangs over the Labor Party, the Liberals haven't upset people quite enough for them to go the way of Queensland, and the Greens are not capitalising well enough to be seeing a major surge in votes, although the Greens campaign has only just started rolling out in earnest in mid-January. There are three major issues across NSW that are going to be taken to this election and that could be decisive: 1) The electricity grid. The NSW Liberals have proposed selling half of the state-owned electricity grid (sans the regional distributors, the one thing the Nationals have fought for for farmers in sixty years) at a cost of roughly one billion dollars a year from the state budget, for an immediate injection of 11 billion. This, of course, is a greater loss than the interest bill on current state bonds. 2) TAFE. The Liberals want to introduce the Smart and Skilled reforms, which will effectively privatise the vocational education and training market in NSW and destroy TAFE as we know it. By "privatise" I mean "hand over massive amounts of taxpayer money to dodgy third-party providers" of course. 3) Coal seam gas. Labor opened up the state to CSG exploration by flogging off licences for practically nothing. The Liberals stood on a platform of winding it back, especially in water catchment areas. The Liberals are now spruiking for open slather on coal seam gas again. There are a huge number of other issues, of course, but these are the main ones. Now, the dramatis personae: The Liberal Party (NSW Branch)  The Liberal Party are a pro-capitalist, right-wing, socially-conservative party. Their traditional bases are the cashed-up snobs of the Eastern and Northern suburbs of Sydney and the cashed-up bogans of the Sutherland Shire. To win government, they rely on swinging votes from outer-Sydney electorates who think that having a 700K mortgage means they need to start voting Liberal. Elected with a commanding mandate of 51 seats (out of 93) in 2011, the Liberal Party (and their coalition partners) seemed even to hardline Labor voters to represent a departure from 16 years of increasingly torpid Labor government, culminating in the Eddie Obeid affair. The phrase "same poo poo, different smell" comes to mind. The Liberals instantly set about doubling down on the worst of Labor's neoliberalism, privatising schools, hospitals and public services, engaging in a series of increasingly lunatic cuts to the public service and frontline staff (such as rolling closures of fire stations) and approving every single coal mine or CSG project that comes across their desks. Mike Baird  The current Premier of NSW, and state Leader of the Liberal Party, who represents the electorate of Manly. Baird took over from O'Farrell's departure from power, and despite subsequently presiding over the departure of 10 MPs, is still in a commanding position to retain the seat of power. Mike Baird is powerfully charismatic and appealing to his base and swing voters, and it has been theorised that Mike Baird is literally made of teflon. He is a disgustingly competent politician. (note - his picture was the first image I GISed for Baird, and it came from biblesociety.org. Draw your own conclusions.) The Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)  The Labor Party are a pro-capitalist, right-wing, socially conservative party. Their traditional bases are the progressive Inner West of Sydney (increasingly less) and the working-class areas of South-West and Greater Western Sydney. Reduced to a 20-seat rump in 2011, four years in the wilderness appears to have taught Labor absolutely nothing. Part of what led to Labor's defeat was the revolving door of leadership, amidst corruption scandal after corruption scandal. Bob Carr, the member for Maroubra who had led the Labor Party to 3 electoral victories in his tenure, retired in 2005, stepping down in favour of the member for Lakemba, Morris Iemma. Iemma pulled Labor through in 2007, but after massive problems with service delivery (including a "war with the rail unions" from a Labor government) as well as a plan to privatise the state's electricity infrastructure, Iemma was thrown out by the Right faction and replaced with Nathan Rees, the member for Toongabbie. After a mere fifteen months as Premier, Rees was thrown out by the Labor caucus, mostly due to affront at a series of cabinet reshuffles and reforms aimed at fighting corruption within the party. He was replaced by Kristina Keneally, the member for Heffron, who led the party to a landslide defeat in 2011. After 2011, Labor selected John Robertson, the member for Blacktown, as leader. A man of absolutely zero charisma or notable talent, he is a less memorable figure than even Bill Shorten, if that can be believed. His most notable feature was being savaged by former Prime Minister Paul Keating in a letter, bemoaning his opposition to asset sales. Fearing flagging polls, Labor replaced Robertson with Legislative Council member Luke Foley, who will move to the Legislative Assembly by contesting the seat of Auburn at this election. Luke Foley  Leader of the NSW Branch of the Labor Party and a member of the Legislative Council, Luke Foley is nominally the leader of the Socialist Left faction of Labor. He is the leader of Socialist Left despite opposing same-sex marriage and supporting foetal personhood (the so-called "Zoe's Law"), as well as being in favour of privatising assets such as ports, the expansion of mining in NSW, and being a self-described fan of "small government and the private sector as the engine of growth." Foley's first announced policy upon his appointment to the leadership was a hundred million dollar tax break for the racing industry. It hasn't gotten much better from there. The NSW Nationals  The Nationals are a pro-capitalist, right-wing, socially conservative party. Their traditional base are the regional areas of NSW, despite the Nationals having literally not done a single thing to fight for regional NSW since the 1950s. They are currently involved in desperately pretending they don't support everything the Liberal Government are doing while supporting everything the Liberal Government does. Currently many safe National seats are exposed to risk from independent challenges, or even one or two from the Greens. The result from Shepparton in the recent Victorian election has a lot of NSW Nats sweating. Troy Grant  Replacing outgoing Nationals Leader (and hence Deputy Premier) Andrew Stoner, the member for Dubbo Troy Grant really, truly wishes people would stop asking him about coal seam gas so he could stop having to admit he thinks it's a great idea. The Greens NSW  The Greens NSW are a motley band of belligerent anarchist rabble, as described by former Australian Greens Parliamentary Party Room Leader Bob Brown. They have no "traditional base" but are increasingly hoovering up votes in the progressive areas of Inner Western Sydney, with former Leichhardt Mayor Jamie Parker winning the seat of Balmain and former Marrickville Mayor Fiona Byrne coming within 300 votes of winning the seat of Marrickville at the previous election. This election, Marrickville was split into two seats - the more strongly-Labor Summer Hill, and the iconically Green Newtown. On current boundaries, Newtown is a Green seat, so the Green campaign is heavily focused on winning Newtown and retaining Balmain, and challenging for Summer Hill and the Eastern Suburbs seat of Coogee. In addition, the coal seam gas movement in northern NSW has made the Northern Rivers seats of Ballina and Lismore vulnerable, which are both already Green/Nat TPP challenges. Admittedly not strong challenges (Lismore is held on a 70% TPP margin, Ballina 68%) but the strength of the Lock the Gate movement and the Bentley Blockade are revealing Green ideals to a large number of voters who are not traditionally Green. The Party Room  The Greens NSW have no leader. MPs instead are responsible for particular portfolios, dividing these responsibilities up collectively. The Greens will be explored in more depth in an overview of the party in my next post. Minor Parties and Independents There are two minor parties with Parliamentary representation in NSW - the Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) and the Shooters and Fishers Party. They are pro-capitalist, right-wing, socially conservative parties and, sadly, are both NSW inventions. We're so sorry, rest of Australia.  Fred Nile combines the disgusting evangelical Christianity of the Festival of Light with a keen talent for populist pandering and possibly undiagnosed mental illness. Nile is a staunch opponent of homosexuality, adoption by homosexual couples, Muslims, particularly burquas, ethics classes in schools instead of good, godly RE, drugs, neo-pagans and witchcraft, and the Greens NSW. Paradoxically, if there truly were a just and loving God, Fred Nile would not exist.  The Shooters and Fishers grew out of a 1992 attempt by the NSW Government to remove the use of firearms for self-defense in NSW following mass shootings with firearms - a clear affront to our right to murder. The Shooters have bent over backwards for any legislation involving more guns, most notably trading a reinstatement of the NSW Game Council and expanded rights for shooting in National Parks for selling off the state's electricity generators. They also successfully instituted public funding of shooting clubs, and recognition of membership of a hunting club as "genuine reason" for obtaining a firearms licence. Right now they're campaigning hard against privatisation, hoping to fool people for long enough to send them back to the Legislative Council where they can vote to sell the infrastructure in exchange for guns for babies. There are two Independent members of the NSW Legislative Assembly (aside from the ex-Liberal independents): Alex Greenwich and Greg Piper.  Alex Greenwich is the Member for Sydney, replacing the outgoing member Clover Moore. Moore, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, was forced to resign her seat on the institution of laws that prevented someone from holding a seat in both State Parliament and local government. While a huge number of MPs were affected by these laws, they were popularly termed the "Get Clover" laws, due to the longstanding animosity between the Liberal Party and Moore, who siphons off a massive amount of their vote, blocks them from any noteworthy representation in the City of Sydney Council and stands against their worst development plans for the inner city. They expected Moore to stand aside from Council and retain her Parliamentary seat, forcing a by-election that the Liberals would have a chance of winning. Instead, Moore stayed on Council, anointing Alex Greenwich as her successor, who won a by-election handily. Greenwich is generally good, very progressive and focused on gay rights, and has worked closely with the Greens on many issues. He is also possibly an android.  Greg Piper is the former Mayor of Lake Macquarie. He describes himself as socially progressive and fiscally cautious, and is generally fairly reliable for not being awful. Quantum Mechanic fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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Everything You Didn't Want to Know about the Greens NSW Back in the 1970s, there was a massive wave of development fever across Sydney. In particular, there were plans to flatten huge amounts of heritage buildings and replace them with modern high-rises. Local anti-development protestors, realising their tactics were limited, approached the leader of what was then the Builders Labourer Federation, Jack Mundey, for support. Eventually, the two groups organised a pact that BLF workers would not pick up tools on heritage sites like The Rocks. Mundey declared that no worker would participate in the destruction of Australian heritage. These actions were known as the Green Bans, and it is from these that the Sydney Greens took their name in 1984, eventually forming the Greens NSW as a federation of 13 local Green groups. Today, the Greens NSW are comprised of 56 local groups, some based around Council areas, like the Waverley and Woolahra Greens, and some around regional areas, like the Macarthur and Riverina Greens. Each local group is entitled to a delegate at the bi-monthly meetings of the State Delegates Council, the supreme decision-making body of the Greens NSW. The SDC deliberates on internal administration, policy and campaign strategy, and elects all the office bearers and internal committees of the GNSW. The GNSW have a Convenor, Secretary, Membership Officer, Treasurer, Party Agent, Returning Officer and Policy Coordinator, as well as a Deputy Convenor, Secretary, Treasurer and Policy Coordinator. Committees perform the bulk of the administrative work for the party, along with the paid office staff and Executive Officer. The two most important committees are the Committee of Management, who perform interim decision-making for the party between meetings of the SDC, and the Parliamentary Liaison Committee, who provide guidance and direction to the Party Room between meetings of the SDC. Greens NSW MPs do not have a conscience vote, and when the Party Room cannot reach consensus on an aspect of policy, it is referred to the PLC or SDC. At no point may a Greens NSW MP vote against a consensus decision of party room or the SDC. There are also a large number of Working Groups, open to any member of the party, for discussion and skill-sharing on policy issues and for submitting proposals on new policy to the SDC. Any local group is also entitled to submit proposals to SDC, as well as office bearers. Candidate preselections are decided by a ballot of the appropriate local group(s) for House of Representatives, Legislative Assembly or Council positions, and a ballot of the entire membership for Senate and Legislative Council positions. The F-Word The Greens NSW do not have factions. As a party of grassroots democracy, the GNSW reject factions as being artifical and anti-democratic, favouring robust debate of the membership and the State Delegates Council instead. On the other hand, the Greens NSW totally have factions. They can be roughly divided into the ecosocialists and the envirocapitalists. The ecosocialists, or the "Eastern Bloc" are exemplified by members such as Lee Rhiannon and John Kaye. They consider the goals of the Greens to extend beyond environmental concerns, and that economic and social justice are just as vital to our mission as sustainability and environmental protection. The envirocapitalists, on the other hand, favour a more European-style Green Party that focuses on environmental protection and reform, with social justice goals as secondary. Notable members include former NSW MLCs Ian Cohen and Cate Faehrmann. Recontesting Candidates The Greens NSW currently have 6 MPs - one member of the Assembly, and five members of the Council. Of these, 3 are up for re-election this month: Dr. John Kaye, Waverley Greens  Kaye is a member of the Legislative Council, and is the lead candidate on the NSW LC ticket. Were NSW to have a state leader, it would likely be him. Kaye is an electrical engineer, who holds the Parliamentary portfolios of Energy, Education, TAFE, Treasury, Health, Gaming and Racing, and Democracy. He has been a frontline fighter on the proposed changes to TAFE and the sale of the poles and wires, as well as pushing for the Greens 100% Renewable NSW plan. Dr. Mehreen Faruqi, South Sydney Greens  Faruqi is a member of the Legislative Council, who was selected to fill the casual vacancy left by Cate Faehrmann, who resigned in 2013 to contest the Senate. She is second on the Greens NSW LC ticket - although GNSW policy requires that a woman must be moved up the ticket in order to ensure that 1 of the top 2 and 2 of the top 4 candidates are women, Faruqi won her spot without AA. Faruqi is an environmental engineer, and the first Muslim woman to sit in any Australian Parliament. She holds the portfolios of Animal Welfare, Environment, Healthy Lifestyles, Marine Environment & Fisheries, Multiculturalism, Roads & Ports, Sexuality & Gender Identity, Status of Women, Transport, and Young People. Her two biggest campaigns have been the campaign against "Zoe's Law," the foetal personhood bills proposed by Fred Nile, and her campaign against the WestConnex motorway, revealing plans for mass outsourcing of public sector work as well as incredibly shaky economic modelling. Jamie Parker, Port Jackson Greens  Parker is the Member for Balmain, and is re-contesting the seat after winning it off Labor's Verity Firth in 2011. He holds the Parliamentary portfolios of Uranium and Small Business. Parker has qualifications in Economics and Political Economy, and was the Mayor of Leichhardt Council from 2008 until 2011. He is also incredibly tall. New Candidates There are two main candidates hoping to make a break into Parliament this election: Jenny Leong, Petersham-Newtown Greens  Leong is the candidate for the newly-created seat of Newtown, which is nominally Green on current boundaries. Leong is a practised campaign coordinator and activist, most recently having worked as a global human rights campaigner with Amnesty International. Justin Field, Shoalhaven Greens  Field is the 3rd-place candidate for the Legislative Council. Last election, the Greens elected a 3rd MLC, which means that if the Green vote maintains, Field has a decent chance at election. Field is an anti coal-seam-gas campaigner, who has worked in the Parliamentary office of Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham, and most recently for Lock the Gate and the Sunrise Project, which has sponsored the Land, Water, Future campaign. Quantum Mechanic fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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I heard there was a new QM thread and I am surprised to see that it's not a Sims LP??
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Murodese posted:I heard there was a new QM thread and I am surprised to see that it's not a Sims LP?? Nope. Suffer, brief mortals. Also while I'm on my NSW soapbox, goddamn PLEASE join the Greens or sign up to volunteer. This election is going to be disgusting, and if you think Federal Labor are an uninspiring and torpid opposition, NSW Labor will leave you utterly dumbfounded. We have a real chance to make a difference and we need every hand on deck possible.
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If Pyne and Bolt had a baby: 
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Amazing OP.
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Anidav posted:If Pyne and Bolt had a baby: Cruel and unusual
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This thread is way too informative, interesting and well written for the likes of auspol. I was heartened to see the Greens' billboards up around the inner west including Jamie Parker's giant face looking up at Leichhardt.
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to add to nswelection chat - Alert for people who aren't in NSW (you lucky bastards) but still want to help! The Greens in YOUR STATE - that's right, the one you live in - will be helping to campaign! Get in touch with your local campaign coordinator about phonebanking to help the NSW Greens. Alternatively, if you're a member, you can apply here - http://goo.gl/forms/ZJrBIjmxYT - for subsidies for flights and billeting to come up and campaign in person! Helping out other states with their elections is seriously one of the most rewarding and fun things one can do as an active member of the Greens and you'll stumble around in a haze of sleep deprivation, Greens love and whatever your drug(s) of choice are for days afterwards. I wholly encourage everybody who has any experience or enthusiasm for on-the-ground campaigning to apply.
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The election is on the 28th of March
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I joined the greens when I lived in Newtown but now I live in Balmain, do I switch branches? How's that all work?
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BloatedCorpse posted:I joined the greens when I lived in Newtown but now I live in Balmain, do I switch branches? How's that all work? NSW Greens Branches/"Local Groups" (the difference is pretty much semantic but I've seen people get quite upset at the wrong one being used because it sounds less grassroots) are based around local government areas or regions rather than electorates like in some other states. So maybe not? Depends where you live/d!
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Quantum Mechanic posted:Nope. Suffer, brief mortals. Also, I am allergic to democracy sausages (No, seriously. A lot of manufacturers stuff them with onion powder and garlic, which cause me no end of digestive strife).
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Feb 28, 2015 18:04
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Great OP. poo poo state. It balances out somehow I'm sure.
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Awesome OP, even NTATA* is smiling * Noted Torture Apologist Tony Abbott
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Anidav posted:If Pyne and Bolt had a baby: More like a cross between Brendan Cowell and Don Corleone
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NSW is a bad state of bad people and the rest of us would be better off if it sank without warning into the sea.
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Dr Kevin Bonham has a small analysis of the upcoming NSW election/polling here: http://kevinbonham.blogspot.co.at/2015/02/new-south-wales-roundup-is-even-this.html
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Gough Suppressant posted:NSW is a bad state of bad people and the rest of us would be better off if it sank without warning into the sea. Agreedo.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:55
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Top OP, lost it at the Greens pic after all the pro-cap rightwing socially-conservative parties. Anarchist rabble FTW!
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Feb 28, 2015 23:13
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My breasts.
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Avshalom posted:My breasts. INTO THE SEA WITH THEM
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Uhlman just said Four Corners may have documents that proves there is a deal with the japanese to buy their submarines. Episode will be on the 23rd, the monday before the election 
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Uhlman just said Four Corners may have documents that proves there is a deal with the japanese to buy their submarines. Episode will be on the 23rd, the monday before the election And it's a sitting week.
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Feb 28, 2015 23:36
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NSW LNP policy the same as what Newman/Abbott gets crucified for... NSW voters - 
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Tokamak posted:NSW LNP policy the same as what Newman/Abbott gets crucified for... Give em a break, NSW Labor is a disgrace too.
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Feb 28, 2015 23:43
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If you showed a blind man QLD or NSW, 9 times out of 10 he would choose QLD. Best State.
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Feb 28, 2015 23:53
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Mike Baird reads mean tweets. Always hilarious these things.
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Feb 28, 2015 23:58
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Now I've heard the term "gangbang" used on insiders. Strange days we live in.
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Graic Gabtar posted:Now I've heard the term "gangbang" used on insiders. I've heard the next leadership spill being described as a three way.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:I've heard the next leadership spill being described as a three way.
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Graic Gabtar posted:I think the best Abbott could hope for at the moment is a rash on his forehead from Brandis' shaved ball sack while he's stuck at the bottom of the stacks on. My Breasts
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GrEat, a full month of insufferable NSW crap Reminder that Victoria is the best state since we elect actual Greens, not sitting around the bongfire making up stories about how close the Greens candidate got to winning
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You Am I posted:GrEat, a full month of insufferable NSW crap Reminder that if anything is to seriously change, it will have to be in NSW. The writing's on the wall but it is the NSW branches of the major parties which have to read it and if they continue to ignore that, we're all still so very hosed.
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Dr Anthony Lyndham is out doing clean up Australia day, I just got a photo of him with 2 attendees. he does not support meta data retention. and thinks it's abhorrent that federal Labor is caving. I told him to recant the Labor policy of detention overseas and asked him about the NBN and if it's too far hosed. he doesn't think so but noone really knows what's going on with that. He says the smart state funds are still there just sitting in an account doing nothing. state Labor is going to make another science push. the Boggo road labs are mostly empty waiting for companies to form and take residence. he encouraged me to make a start up and take ownership of one. I'll try to get him to the next Brisgoons meet.
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quote:The man backed by Labor Party heavyweights to take on Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk at the 2016 elections has no formal political experience and has never been to a council meeting. 
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-01/lambie-threatened-with-beheading/6271732ABC posted:Jacqui Lambie receives beheading threat, ordering her to help implement Sharia law in Australia Hmm yes this letter seems legit.
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SeekOtherCandidate posted:NSW Greens Branches/"Local Groups" (the difference is pretty much semantic but I've seen people get quite upset at the wrong one being used because it sounds less grassroots) are based around local government areas or regions rather than electorates like in some other states. So maybe not? Depends where you live/d! Your default local group is based on where you live, but you can choose to join any local group with their permission. I know at least one member who lives in Bondi, but is a member of the Byron Greens. You Am I posted:Reminder that Victoria is the best state since we elect actual Greens, not sitting around the bongfire making up stories about how close the Greens candidate got to winning NSW has 6 State MPs, and up until 2014 consistently had the largest number of State MPs of any of the state parties. If all goes well, this election will take us to 8.
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