Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
Kirsty Patten, sister of Sex Party founder Fiona Patten, is running for the Sex Party in the Queesland Senate. She has been a member of the Australian Sex Party since its inception (member number 14) and has always supported the common sense policies the party promotes. She is a gay woman with a partner and Continue Reading →
Any one expecting a lightweight version of the leaders debate when Graeme Perrett and Malcolm Cole lined up at the South West Chamber breakfast last week got more than they bargained for. The most marginal seat in the country is being hard fought by two serious contenders, both vigorous terriers who will take the fight Continue Reading →
Help bridge the gender gap and empower women and girls today. The Australian National Committee for UN Women is calling on Australian men to donate $266 to mark Equal Pay Day today. Women make up 70% of the world’s poor. The reasons for this are complex, but it starts with an undervaluing of women’s contributions. Continue Reading →
Kerrod Trott, founding Editor and Publisher of the Westender. I’ve been a Labour supporter man and boy for forty years. I’ve been a financial member of the local branch, and have manned the polling booths for the ALP on many occasions. Now I just can’t bring myself to vote for them anymore. The ALP have Continue Reading →
A long-term resident of the electorate, Jan McNicol from the Stable Population Party has a wide range of interests in cultural and environmental issues. She said she participated in ‘the noble but failed attempt to protect the Highgate Hill Gully from destruction for high rise in 2002’. She watches ‘with horror the spreading densification of this area, as high Continue Reading →
Sherrilyn Church from Rise Up Australia is not a local – she lives 150 kilometres from Brisbane at Crow’s Nest, where she grows citrus. She is actively involved in a charity in Kenya employing local health workers to provide free health care to the needy. She says she threw her lot in with the RUA because, Continue Reading →