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A fight for sixth place in the WA senate re-run

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, In : WA Senate 


Election pundit, Anthony Green is tipping a fight for sixth place in WA senate election between the Greens' Scott Ludlam, the Palmer United Party, and the microparties (particularly HEMP and Sustainable Population).

Quote: "ABC election analyst Antony Green told The West Australian newspaper that the preference flows indicate that the 3 Liberal, 2 Labor, Green or PUP is the likely result of the WA Senate rerun.

“The last spot will come down to Ludlam, Palmer United or one of the micro-parties...
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Wikileaks' WA preferencing decision could give Abbott control of Senate

Posted by on Monday, August 19, 2013, In : Preferencing 
Wikileaks has been courting the climate movement vote with a recently strengthened climate policy (which includes some policies related to phasing out coal but has a puzzling lack of content on leaving gas in the ground). However, their unprincipled decision to preference the WA Nationals ahead of one of Assange's strongest Australian supporters, Greens senator, Scott Ludlam, may possibly deliver the sixth WA Senate place to the Nationals and help Abbott get the majority he needs to wind back...

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Libs preference decision may not hurt Greens as much as you might think

Posted by Vote Climate on Thursday, August 15, 2013, In : Preferencing 

Will the Liberals' decision to give preferences to Labor put an end to the Greens' chances of winning seats at this election? Tim Colebatch in the Age (15/8) argues that Adam Bandt still has a reasonable chance of retaining his seat of Melbourne and that the Greens could hold their own, or even improve their position in the Senate. 


He explains this as follows:

... if Liberal voters direct preferences as they did in the 2010 state election – the last time the Liberals told their supporters t...


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Micro party preferences - beware!

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, In : Micro parties 
There are about 50 registered groups competing for Senate seats this election. These include Coke in the Bubblers Party, the Smoker's Rights Party, the Animal Justice Party, Bullet Train for Australia party and the Help End Marijuana Prohibition Party (HEMP).  These parties have little hope of winning an outright ''quota'' - 14.3 per cent of the primary vote in a state (or 33 per cent in a territory). However, preference deals are being organised which could win one of them a senate seat with...
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Combet says carbon price is here to stay

Posted by Vote Climate on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, In : Carbon price 

Greg Combet at Press Council lunch:

"Carbon pricing is here to stay,'' said Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet today in defiance of Coalition claims Labor should bow to an election mandate. Mr Combet said if Tony Abbott were elected Prime Minister "he cannot and will not repeal the carbon price''. "Labor will remain committed to it,'' he told the National Press Club in Canberra. "Tackling climate change has been in our platform for over two decades, and we will fight for what we believe i...


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Liberals may win control of Senate

Posted by Vote Climate on Saturday, May 4, 2013, In : Political analysis 
Latest analysis by expert pollster Anthony Green suggests that the Liberals could win control of the Senate and thus be able to repeal the carbon price.

As reported in The Age:

If current polling continues, and Mr Abbott wins a majority in the House of Representatives, then to repeal the carbon tax he would need 39 votes in the Senate. Currently the Coalition controls 34 out of the 76 seats. 
The Coalition will win another seat in Tasmania and is likely to claim Greens' Senator Sarah Hanson-Youn...
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