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admin /22 August, 2010
Dear friend,
The Greens are the breakthrough story of this election.
I want to make sure you’re the first to understand how significant these results are—and that we couldn’t have achieved them without your support.
Yesterday, the Greens won the balance of power in the Senate, as well as our first lower house seat at a general election in Melbourne. We’ve achieved so much together this election that it’s hard to quantify, but here are some numbers that tell part of the story:
We won a Senate seat in every State, including our first ever Greens Senators in Queensland and Victoria. This gives us the power to shape the agenda of the new Government and achieve real outcomes on issues like climate change, a fair go for asylum seekers, equal marriage, and improving public schools and hospitals;
Our first ever lower house Greens Member of Parliament has been elected in a general election – congratulations to Adam Bandt who won the seat of Melbourne with a massive 13% swing to the Greens on primaries!
admin /22 August, 2010
NSW ELECTION RESULTS
22 August 2010
Dear Greens members and supporters,
All your hard work has paid off! It sure looks like The Greens have won a NSW Senate spot. With about three quarters of the vote counted, election analyst Antony Green has the Greens winning back a Senate seat in NSW!
It is great news for the Greens around the country. We have doubled the number of federal Greens MPs. Along with Adam Bandt elected as the Greens MP for the seat of Melbourne, we could have nine Greens Senators with new senators from NSW, South Australia, Queensland and Victoria.
The swing to the Greens across the nation is around 3.6 per cent, taking our primary vote to 11.43 per cent. Adam Bandt said it best – our strong result shows Greens values are now mainstream values.
admin /22 August, 2010
Meanwhile the polling booth at Nimbin in the Richmond electorate recorded a Greenvote of 49%. Sunday 22 August 2010 Milne says thank-you for record Tasmanian Green vote In the biggest vote for a third party since the SecondWorld War, The Greens will return to federal parliament with eight andpossibly nine senators and the House of Continue Reading →
admin /21 August, 2010
Media release – 21 August 2010*Major parties hog polling booths, compromising democracy*Greens Senate candidate for NSW Lee Rhiannon says polling booths acrossSydney are being dominated by the major parties’ election material, withplastic wrap on school fences and corflutes slathering booths and denyingsmaller parties and independent candidates an even playing field. “It’s undemocratic for the major Continue Reading →
admin /20 August, 2010
—– Original Message —– From: “Redman, Chris (Sen R. Siewert)” To: Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:11 PMSubject: [GreensMPs_Media] Greens welcome call for a ten year poverty plan > Friday 20 August, 2010>> Greens welcome call for a ten year poverty plan>> The Australian Greens today welcomed a call by the major church> providers for Continue Reading →
admin /19 August, 2010
Julia Gillard’s carbon price promise
- Paul Kelly and Dennis Shanahan
- From: The Australian
- August 20, 2010 12:00AM
Julia Gillard in her Parliament House office in Canberra yesterday. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Australian
JULIA Gillard says she is prepared to legislate a carbon price in the next term.
It will be part of a bold series of reforms that include school funding, education and health.
In an election-eve interview with The Australian, the Prime Minister revealed she would view victory tomorrow as a mandate for a carbon price, provided the community was ready for this step.
“I don’t rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,” she said of the next parliament. “I rule out a carbon tax.”
This is the strongest message Ms Gillard has sent about action on carbon pricing.
While any carbon price would not be triggered until after the 2013 election, Ms Gillard would have two potential legislative partners next term – the Coalition or the Greens. She would legislate the carbon price next term if sufficient consensus existed.
Earlier this year, then prime minister Kevin Rudd ditched Labor’s plans to introduce a carbon price for the next term after the bills failed to pass the Senate.
Ms Gillard’s proposal for a citizens’ assembly to discuss climate change, announced after she replaced Mr Rudd as leader, has been heavily criticised.
