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Candidates

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Larissa Waters is the Greens candidate for the Mt Coot-tha seat, and on election eve she found time to respond to our short Q&A email.

Q: Please give a brief introduction of yourself

A: I am a 32 year old environmental lawyer, working in the non-profit sector with Queensland communities concerned about their local environment.

Q: If you win the seat what is the first thing you would like to achieve?

A: My top priorities if elected would be improving the public transport option for Mt Coot-tha residents (and scrapping all the urban freeway proposals in the electorate) and getting a mandatory renewable energy target into Queensland law including good rebates and feed-in-tariffs for households to encourage the use of solar energy.

Q: What are your plans for election day?

A: Tomorrow I will be visiting all the polling booths morning and afternoon to meet voters and also thank (and feed and water!) our volunteers.

Thanks Larissa for finding the time to respond to our email.

Does DS4SEQ really have the votes? Tell us what you think.

March 20, 2009

The Daylight Saving for South East Queensland party has made a strong showing in our QldVoice.org reader polls, currently holding 74% of the votes in our latest poll.  It is unusual for a single-issue party to receive a lot of votes because when it comes down to election day and you’re standing in front of [...]

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Candidates and leaders

March 19, 2009

This election campaign has focussed so heavily on the party leaders you’d almost forget there were hundreds of candidates running for seats across Queensland if all you paid attention to was the mainstream media coverage.  Fortunately we’ve still got good old direct mail to remind us who we are voting for in our local electorates.
Something [...]

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Mark Platt not bothered with campaigning

March 19, 2009
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Mark Platt is the ALP candidate for Hinchinbrook.  If that name rings a bell it is because he is the candidate who can’t be bothered campaigning in the electorate that he is running in and placed a media gag on himself.  This is despite the LNP holding the seat by only 1.9% of the vote [...]

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Pauline’s campaign in the media

March 18, 2009
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Pauline Hanson is running in this election as an independent candidate (not for her previous party One Nation) in the seat of Beaudesert.  Her views on the important issues are well described on her website, but how are they playing in the media?
A quick look at the Courier Mail’s election section answers that pretty quickly.  [...]

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