Electoral comment authorised by Mark Roberts, 19 Eve St, Erskineville NSW 2043
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brutally unfair Industrial Relations measures, its unprincipled foreign policy, its undermining of basic human rights, its politicization of the public service, its starving of the ABC, its indebtedness to big business and powerful vested interests, indeed, to almost everything it has done.
He is spoiling for the fray.
The Lower North Shore Greens have voted for experience by selecting Ted Nixon as their candidate to run against Joe Hockey in the upcoming Federal election.
Ted was the Greens candidate in the 2004 election, in which the Greens polled over 12% of the primary vote, and before that he ran in the 2003 State election. A retired academic -he was an Associate Professor in Ancient History at Macquarie University - Ted has lived on the Lower North Shore for over 30 years. He is a former President of the Lane Cove West P and C, and was an Alderman on the Lane Cove Council from 1983 to 1987. President of one birdwatching club, and till recently Conservation Officer for another, Ted is a keen environmentalist, bird-watcher and bushwalker.
While Ted is deeply concerned about the government's lack of meaningful action on climate change, land-clearing and logging of old-growth forests, he is also incensed by the Coalition's
Voting for the Greens actually doubles your vote. When the first lot of ballot papers are counted normally none of the candidates have enough votes to be elected. So, the candidate with the smallest pile of votes is eliminated and the smallest pile’s second choices are put on-top of the bigger piles until someone wins. Your second choice is counted at full value. This doubles your influence! A higher vote for the Greens sends a strong message.
Absent vote
An absent vote is a vote cast by an elector out of their home division but still within their home State or Territory on election day. At the last election there were 851,951 absent votes cast (6.22 per cent of the total votes cast).
Early vote
These types of votes can be cast by an elector who will not be within their home State or Territory on election day, is seriously ill, infirm, unable to leave work, or for religious reasons is unable to attend a polling place.
Electors can cast an early vote either in person or by post in the following two ways.
An early vote can be cast at an early voting centre in the 2 weeks leading up to election day. A list of early voting centres will be available shortly.
A postal vote is cast before election day by post. To apply for a postal vote you must print off and complete an "Application for a postal vote" form. The AEC will then send ballot papers to you.
Interstate vote on election day
An interstate vote can be cast on election day at an interstate voting centre by an elector who is not within their home State or Territory. At the last election the total number of early (pre-poll) votes cast before election day and interstate votes cast on election day was 610,107. This represented approximately 4.79 per cent of the total number of votes.
Provisional vote
A provisional vote is cast in circumstances where an elector's name cannot be found on the roll or the name has already been marked off the roll. The vote cannot be counted until a careful check of enrolment records and entitlements has been made.
Electors making a postal, early, interstate or provisional vote must complete a declaration giving their personal details. This will be checked by divisional staff before the votes are counted.
Mobile polling votes
AEC mobile polling teams take portable polling places to many electors who are not able to get to a polling place. Mobile polling places are set up in some hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and remote areas of Australia. Mobile polling is carried out around Australia prior to election day and on election day.
For further information go to www.aec.gov.au.
Once the election was called Ted Nixon was not slow in letting the Prime Minister know that it was time to start packing his bags. Ted and a number of his supporters arrived on John Howard's doorstep (in the North Sydney electorate) to remind the soon to be ex-Prime Minister that his days were numbered!
Ted Nixon with Senator Bob Brown. Senator Brown is standing for re-election to the Senate in Tasmania. Senator Kerry Nettle is standing for re-election in NSW. It is critical that we ensure that Bob and Kerry are re-elected.
Bob Brown is the leader of the Australian Greens in Canberra. After his successful role in the nationwide campaign to save Tasmania's Franklin River in 1983, Bob gave 10 good years' service to the Tasmanian Parliament, leading his Greens team in the (Field) Labor-Green Accord years, 1989-92. After the Liberal Gray government's legacy of $100 million debt, it was the Accord which set the foundation of Tasmania’s economic strength in 2007.
Elected to the Senate for Tasmania in 1996, Bob has seen the Greens growing in popularity to become Australia's third political party, now with four senators, including Tasmania's Christine Milne (elected in 2004).
