Australian Prime Minister does something right – says to put the Greens last

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7 thoughts on “Australian Prime Minister does something right – says to put the Greens last”

  1. I don’t think I’ve ever voted according to a party handout ticket at any election ever.

    When I first voted was back in 1972. I was in the RAAF, and, as a single serving member, you could register in your home electorate instead of the electorate where the base you were stationed at was, and I was living at Williamtown near Newcastle. You had to be 21 to vote in those days, and my first election was in Dec ember 1972, when Gough first won, and oddly, that was one of the first things I did upon reaching the age of 21, register to vote.

    I voted in the Maitland Town Hall, on that Saturday afternoon, just before playing Grade cricket, and the very first number I placed against any candidate was on arguably the shortest Senate ticket in Australia’s history. There was no half Senate election that year, just for the Reps. However, there was a Special Senate Election for Queensland to fill the one vacancy caused by a retirement. Neville Bonner was appointed in the interim, and he had to stand at that special election. So my very first vote was for the first Aboriginal person to serve in an Australian Parliament, and he was duly elected.

    My ‘home’ seat was McPherson, based around The Gold Coast, the largest seat by population in Australia in those days, and now divided into around ten or so seats. Eric Robinson, a Liberal, won what was a very safe coalition seat.

    There were no how to vote cards for absentee voters, so you had to know who was who at that time. From that time I have never followed any how to vote card. The next election (1974) was a DD and saw the first of those ‘bedsheets’ which are now the standard for any Senate Election. High informal Senate vote at that DD, as there was no above the line and you had to number every square below the line. Even then there were only around 30 names on that Queensland Senate ticket, and now it’s a cast of thousands.

    Tony.

  2. Fair enough that Malcolm wakes up to the GreenBlob and wants them put last, no worries Mal it was on my mind anyways. But what in the name of the prophet was he doing appointing ex Greens candidate Ms Lin Hatfield-Dodds to be a Deputy Head in the PM’s Dept.? Just a few weeks ago.
    It is simply breathtaking that a long term GreenLeft activist would be so appointed by a so called Liberal Govt.

  3. Thanks Tony – interested to hear your history. I was in Oz for the 1966 poll. Loyal little Labor voter. By 1969 I was a party Vice President at the Leonora Branch. The scales fell from my eyes in 1975 and 1974 was my last Labor vote.

  4. Incidentally, that 1974 election, well that was a Double Dissolution as well. In those days, for The Senate, there were only ten Senators from each of the States, and they added the extra 2 to bring it up to 12 in 1984.

    It was very rare to have anyone elected outside of the 2 main Parties.

    Queensland was a Coalition stronghold, thanks mainly to the popularity of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who led the Country Party (now The Nationals) at a State level, and that flowed over to the federal level. The Coalition had a combined ticket (in all States) in those days, and they split the Senate ticket up as a Liberal, then CP, then Liberal etc. The CP was so successful here in Queensland that they got three Senators up, so 6 for the Coalition and 4 for Labor, and Queensland was always a thorn in Gough’s side.

    As usual, I ignored the how to vote ticket. (Now) Senator Neville Bonner was down at Number 3 on the ticket and I marked the Number One against his name, (soft spot for him as he was the very first person I ever voted for) then the 3 Country Party members, then the Liberals from the bottom up because Kathy Martin was a family friend, then the DLP, Independents, and Labor last, marking from the bottom up. I always thought of it as my little personal rebellion, making it as difficult as possible for the election result counters to check my ballot paper.

    Incidentally, Joh may be thought of badly, but when Dame Annabelle Rankin resigned, Joh nominated Neville Bonner to fill the casual vacancy, the first aboriginal parliamentarian in Australia, and in those days a casual appointment had to run at the very next Federal election, unlike these days when a retiring Senator is replaced by someone who then gets to serve the full remaining term of that Senator he or she replaced, like what has happened recently with a couple of Greens and Bob Carr who retired virtually the day after the election, so in theory his nominated replacement could have served the six years Carr was elected for, without ever having to have faced an election.

    Queensland Senate result – 1974 link – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_of_the_Australian_federal_election,_1974#Queensland_2

    Tony.

  5. Wazsah,

    I Just read your comment again, and noticed Leonora, and I immediately remembered Gwalia, and The Sons of Gwalia gold mining venture. Not many people would remember that U.S. President Herbert Hoover started out as a mining engineer in that district, managing that mine.

    Rich history.

    Tony.

  6. Tony, you mention Hoover. He was a bit of an “entrepreneur”. In more recent times he could be called part of the “White Shoe” brigade of which that Queenslander with past interest in politics and mining, Clive Palmer was one. There is much misinformation around about Hoover. Americans like to claim he had a hand in developing Flotation but in fact he personally no role. His brother had a connection for a short time and it appears stole some of the technology and sold it I think to Russians. He was then involved in a court case. The name Hoover should be forgotten. It seems he also was a very poor POTUS but the title of the worst now belongs to Obama.
    Re voting. I can say I have never voted for the ALP but did once in my early days give a preference for a DLP senator. I voted below the line in the last senate election and will do so again this election but luckily I will only have to number 12. Not too sure about my number 1 & 2 choices but 3 will go to Joanne Lindgren who was an Abbott supporter and is 5th or 6th on the LNP list. I think the two Nationals on the LNP list Barry O’Sullivan and Mathew Canavan should get elected but will be my 4 & 5. I will be leaving off the list Brandis, Macdonald, and McGarth who supported Turnbull. Of course I will leave off all the Greens and also place the Greens last (8th) in my HR seat which will be a win for the LNP.

  7. Thanks Tony – interested to hear your history. I was in Oz for the 1966 poll. Loyal little Labor voter. By 1969 I was a party Vice President at the Leonora Branch. The scales fell from my eyes in 1975 and 1974 was my last Labor vote. We lived in Hoover’s House for a couple of years.

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