melbourne Archive

  • frog

    Meet the Candidates, Tukituki



    The Bay Buzz covered a local Forest and Bird candidate debate in the Tukituki electorate last night.  It seems the sitting MPs tried to dominate the event: It was mostly the Rick[Barker, Labour] and Craig [Foss, National] show, with an occasional reminder from expert witness Quentin [Duthie] that without the Greens around as babysitter, the children [...] read more
    October 10, 2008 11:51 am - 1 Comment
  • frog

    Rayna Fahey: “vote global vote green”



    Melbourne based Rayna Fahey, number 28 on the Green Party list, is looking for overseas votes: read more
    August 26, 2008 2:06 pm - 23 Comments
  • frog

    The Greens’ not so secret Australian political operatives



    Russell Brown over at Public Address seems to be obliquely fingering the Greens for using a political operative in 2002 in the same vein as Crosby Textor: Political strategy is a cynical business by its nature. Labour’s people were not appealing to higher ideals when they ran the “slippery” campaign against Key this year. Even the [...] read more
    June 30, 2008 4:54 pm - 23 Comments
  • frog

    Growling grass frog causes political argument in Aussie



    Victorian Planning Minister Justin Madden wanted to build a 70 kilometre water pipeway from the Goulburn Valley into Melbourne. To help this process along he decided not to ask for an Environmental Effects Statement on the pipeline last December. This seemed like it would be bad news for several endangered species including a striped legless [...] read more
    February 29, 2008 12:50 pm - No Comments