Vote 1 Greens
The Greens party has recorded political gains across the entire of Australia during the 2010 Federal Election.
In a voter backlash against encumbent Australian Labor Party (ALP) for the dumping of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in June 2010, voters turned their votes firstly to The Australian Greens party, then the Liberal National coalition Continue reading »
Kevin Rudd retains seat of Griffith in Brisbane
The Australian 2010 Federal Election has seen the Australian Labor Party (ALP) haemorrhage support acquired during the 2007 Federal election.
Significant support from Queensland (QLD) and New South Wales (NSW) all but evaporated in response to the dumping of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by ALP party power brokers.
The dumping of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister saw Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female Prime Minister rise to power and immediately call a national federal election.
Ms Gillard said at the time that she wanted to be “elected in her own right” in order to validate the action taken against Kevin Rudd.
However, the ‘back room’ tactics that saw the ousting of Kevin Rudd Continue reading »
Vote 1 - The Greens
I read recently on the Australian Greens Party website that the way the Australian Preferences voting system lets you decide in order of priority how to allocate your vote.
One of the things I was interested in was told to me by a Liberal Campaigner outside Woolworth’s Supermarket on the Weekend of the 14th and 15th August when he said that there is no point voting for a minor party because they will not be recognised and that I should vote where my vote get someone actually elected into Parliament (then he handed me a Liberal / National LNP how policy card).
I found this on the Greens party website:
FICTION: A Green vote is a wasted vote.
FACT: Your vote for the Greens is never wasted. A vote for the Greens is a vote for the Greens – for real climate action, for fairness, for sustainability. Continue reading »
Kevin Rudd holds back tears during his resignation speech as Prime Minister.
As much as I am in favour of Julia Gillard as the first female Prime Minister in Australia’s history, and applaud the decision by the Labor Party to elect her as the First Female Prime Minister of Australia, the fall of Kevin Rudd was both underhanded and uncalled for.
The article by Ben Eltham in New Matilda is a pretty concise take on what many people knew to be coming, but which no one actually expected to happen.
Eltham says: A leader [Kevin Rudd] who had once been so popular and powerful finished his reign isolated and bewildered. For months now, support for the Prime Minister has been slipping away: in the polls, among factional power-brokers, and among the MPs and Senators of his party. Continue reading »
First Australian female Prime Minister - Julia Gillard
Supporters for Prime Minister Rudd acknowledged that Ms Gillard will take over as Prime Minister after a vote by caucus in Canberra this morning [Thursday 24th June].
This morning Ms Gillard’s supporters told Australia’s national broadcaster the ABC there was a push to get Mr Rudd not to contest the vote. Continue reading »