With Labor and Liberal so similar in key areas, Green is the only option for progressive voters wanting someone to represent their concerns on what sort of Australia we want to live in.
• IF YOU’RE A PROGRESSIVE VOTER voting Green is the only vote that currently represents this and will make the ALP a more compassionate, humanitarian party...
• GREENS FUNDING - Whichever party you vote 1 for gets the funding for next time. By giving your first preference to a major party, you’re helping lock in more of the same policies. By giving it to the Greens, you’re helping to achieve real debate – and reform.
• YOU CAN STILL PREFERENCE LABOR SECOND - If you vote Greens and preference ALP, then you’re telling Labor that they’re not representing the progressive views of voters.By voting 1 for the Greens and preferencing the ALP, your vote is just as strong at keeping Tony Abbott out – but you also, critically, make the ALP less like him.
• GREENS IN GOVERNMENT WILL REPRESENT YOUR VOICE ON KEY ISSUES such as Climate Change, Infrastructure, Mining… The Greens bring a new voice to the debate on key issues such as climate change and refugees and where there’s currently very little policy difference between the major parties.
• GREENS IN GOVERNMENT CAN IMPROVE MAIN PARTY POLICY on your key issues of climate change, congestion, water scarcity, mental health, asylum seeker policy. Look at how Greens in the Senate made the economic stimulus better with a jobs dividend for rural and regional Australia.
• PUTTING LABOR NO. 2 or ANOTHER PARTY ON YOUR VOTING PAPER means this party will get your vote IF the Green candidate doesn’t win.
DID YOU KNOW?
• The Greens have five Senators in the Parliament of Australia, 22 elected representatives in State and Territory Parliaments, more than 100 local councillors and close to 10,000 party members.
• In the 2007 election, the Greens scored more than 9% of the national vote yet got no Lower House seats. Is this democracy?
(thanks to anonymous lefty for quite a few of these points)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Margaret River Coast Should Be A Marine Sanctury - So why has the govt released drilling permits?
The WA mob are a strange bunch. A few weeks ago they were pumping their fists at an anti-tax rally led by some of the nation’s billionaire oil barrons. Now their cousins down the coast at Margaret River are wanting to stop these same miners from drilling following the govt’s approval in May of a new oil lease just 83kms off the coast.
Last year Australia had its own devastating oil spill in northwest WA at the Montara Oil Field – what if this had been Margaret River – the 22,000 whales who pass through each year wouldn’t have been happy and unlike refugees they can’t enjoy camp life until they join the queue for the east coast states of Australia. I’ve signed the petition and requested a bumper sticker. Here's my letter to Julia10:
Dear Prime Minister
Last year Australia had its own devastating oil spill in northwest WA at the Montara Oil Field. Now less than a year later - and following the devastating Lousiana Oil Spill and Obama's cancellation of all new offshore drilling - the Labor govt has approved new oil leases in proposed marine sanctuaries off the glorious coastline of Margaret River.
All Australians will be impoverished if something goes wrong, only oil magnates get rich (now the RSPT has been diminished) from the venture. Can your govt show its leadership in easing our dependency on oil, not feed further it.
Please establish a world-class network of large marine sanctuaries in Australia's South West, where up to 90% of the marine life is unique, but less than 1% protected. Did you know 22,000 whales a year pass thru the area - and 1/2 million visitors go there annually? As Peter Garrett commented on 7.30 Report - you can never 100% guarantee an accident won't happen. Oil drilling and spills are the very sort of risk that sanctuaries are supposed to safeguard against. Stop the conflict, follow thru on making this area a sanctuary and ban mining in perpetuity. Best wishes, Why-is-it-progressive-to-want-to-protect-the-environment-ita.
Last year Australia had its own devastating oil spill in northwest WA at the Montara Oil Field – what if this had been Margaret River – the 22,000 whales who pass through each year wouldn’t have been happy and unlike refugees they can’t enjoy camp life until they join the queue for the east coast states of Australia. I’ve signed the petition and requested a bumper sticker. Here's my letter to Julia10:
Dear Prime Minister
Last year Australia had its own devastating oil spill in northwest WA at the Montara Oil Field. Now less than a year later - and following the devastating Lousiana Oil Spill and Obama's cancellation of all new offshore drilling - the Labor govt has approved new oil leases in proposed marine sanctuaries off the glorious coastline of Margaret River.
All Australians will be impoverished if something goes wrong, only oil magnates get rich (now the RSPT has been diminished) from the venture. Can your govt show its leadership in easing our dependency on oil, not feed further it.
Please establish a world-class network of large marine sanctuaries in Australia's South West, where up to 90% of the marine life is unique, but less than 1% protected. Did you know 22,000 whales a year pass thru the area - and 1/2 million visitors go there annually? As Peter Garrett commented on 7.30 Report - you can never 100% guarantee an accident won't happen. Oil drilling and spills are the very sort of risk that sanctuaries are supposed to safeguard against. Stop the conflict, follow thru on making this area a sanctuary and ban mining in perpetuity. Best wishes, Why-is-it-progressive-to-want-to-protect-the-environment-ita.
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