Larissa Waters Greens
News Letter
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We don’t have much time left.
Early voting starts on Tuesday. In last year’s state election nearly 70% of voters cast their vote before election day.
Far-right lobby group Advance have raised over $7.6 million dollars specifically to fight the Greens, thanks to their wealthy backers.
@feather1952
>" Australian women will be voting for their future in the upcoming federal election, and they deserve to know where each political candidate stands on the issues that matter to them "
Check it out Australian Women
They don't show up?
Look yourself!
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A really good tool
Thanks to @pjf
Lets you look up what pollies have voted for and against
From Adam Bandt
1/5
On the campaign trail so far, I’ve spoken to so many of you – and I’m hearing the same thing again and again: people are really struggling right now.
Being unable to afford the weekly shop, massive rent hikes, and putting off doctor and dentist visits for as long as possible.
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Get your Greens
Austalin Greens, that is!
All of the signs are showing that this election is on track to deliver a minority government.
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to win change on the issues impacting millions in our community right now.
Can you help?
https://contact-ag.greens.org.au/civicrm/mailing/url?u=646558&qid=316909552
Not true. Trump did not receive a 'massive mandate' as he keeps claiming.
Trump received LESS than 50% of the votes and only 2/3rd of the eligible voters voted. So he received less than 33% of the possible votes.
In many countries, receiving less than 50% of the votes results in a new election with only the two remaining candidates.
He would have lost that. This is precisely why preferential voting is so important.
@johnquiggin
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Hope this satisfies
@kmpiw@mastodon.social @jmcrookston
The good thing about the Australian electoral system is the far right are so disagreeable that they manage to split votes even in a system designed to prevent that.
For the federal senate there are often dozens of parties running, often over a hundred candidates in total, and usually half of them are borderline Nazis, but they don't cooperate with each other and their voters do the bare minimum to fill out the ballot, so none of the nuts get elected.
It is possible to waste a vote, you can pick your favourite and a second choice and third, etc. but if NONE of the candidates you pick have a chance then the vote does get wasted.
I number every party that I hate less than the Liberals, then just ignore all the squabbling Nazis.
It sounds complex but if you just vote for what you actually want and at least one of the popular parties then Australian #PreferentialVoting is designed very well to reflect what you wanted.
I think how well the election turns out this time depends on how well the Liberals lie, about how voting works and about their nonsense that they're "good at the economy" … we have an entire stolen continent of minerals, if we're not all filthy rich, someone – like #ClivePalmer – is being a greedy bastard steeling it.
#juicemedia are awesome
as an #american i've been using their video about #rankedchoicevoting #rcv (what #australia calls #preferentialvoting) to explain it to my fellow citizens for years
because it's funny and gets the point across well
(bonus for you and i: they call out #usa and #uk as "poor bastards" at 0:33)
Preferential (and compulsory) voting to directly elect representatives is v. good compared some other democracies and democratic republics.
(Yeah, #DemocraticRepublic is just included for our friends in the USA who've been propagandised into thinking they're not a democracy.)
I can #VoteGreen in Australia and still put Labor in front of the #Duttons and be sure that, barring idiocy by the #AEC, that my vote will count 1stly for the Greens, and if needed for Labor.
Ranked #voting, also known as #PreferentialVoting or instant-runoff voting (#IRV), is how they do it here in the #EU.
I'm an #Irish citizen now (still holding on to my #US citizenship and voting #Democrat though). Yesterday=first time I voted using this system.
Better-designed system, imho. Sharing so fellow #American #voters can get a sense of how this works. I wish it were everywhere in #USA. Apparently, it's only shown up in limited areas.
Makes sense, right?
@prodygy
*We preface with we* don't do twoPartyPolitics *and for a country that espouses democratic values* the US *needs* #preferentialVoting.
With that said, Trump did try to not to instigate war against Russia, and before the *second, garbage, sensationalised, #impeachment fiasco* he even showed interest in investigating what was happening in Ukraine.
Also *Trump* did put #Afganistan *withdrawal* on the agenda. (remainder uncorrected)
