For some in the Greens, the $1.68 million donation meant success at the 2010 federal election, but I wonder if it was worth it considering the ongoing criticism the party is now receiving, writes Dr Noman Thompson, director of the Greens NSW Democracy4Sale project.
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Hey Pauline Hanson’s mole, if you’re reading this: please explain
Pauline Hanson stands to lose a fortune in legal fees after the man who leaked her emails purporting to show a vote-rigging cover-up failed to show up in court yesterday. It now appears the whistleblower may not exist at all.
Roads, rates, rubbish … foreign policy? Recreating local government
Local government is about more than roads, rates and rubbish. But it’s not about international diplomacy, one Sydney mayor and president of the local government alliance insists. So what good is a new-age council?
Guy Rundle: Politics and plaster ducks, aka kitsch as kitsch can
There’s always something mysterious about kitsch; every time you think you’ve defined it, it slips away.
A striking set of numbers in New South Wales
A week after the massacre, and the New South Wales election is wrapping up. The last doubtful seat in the lower house was decided on Friday, when the Greens claimed victory in Balmain — comfortably from the Liberals on preferences, but by just 205 votes ahead of Labor at the critical point. (They will almost certainly also […]
Gillard may deny it, but Greens and ALP overlap in minds of voters
Julia Gillard might want to distance Labor from those “extremist” Greens but a large proportion of Labor voters are not having a bar of it, writes Hall Greenland, editor-in-chief of The Week.
Green wins Balmain and joins an exclusive club
The last remaining uncertainty about the composition of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was resolved with a full preference distribution delivering Balmain to the Greens.
NSW Greens: not easy being green, as high hopes fizzle
It’s not only NSW Labor with some serious soul searching to do. Like at the Victorian election last November, expectations of a Greenslide in NSW did not eventuate. So what went wrong?
NSW Greens MP: Israel boycott has undermined our campaign
The NSW Greens’ longest serving MP has rejected his party’s support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel.
Extremists the likely winners in NSW upper house
With control of the legislative assembly having been set in stone for many months now, the only doubtful aspect in tomorrow’s New South Wales election is the fate of the legislative council.
NSW election minus 10 days
William Bowe wraps the latest news and updates — from the latest Newspoll to where Greens preferences will be going — from the upcoming NSW election.
Dirty tricks in Marrickville campaign: illegal push-polling claims
One of the Greens candidates expected to win a lower house seat at the NSW election claims she’s the victim of a deceptive and potentially illegal push-polling campaign aimed at smearing her reputation.
The gluten-free NSW Greens launch, with added planning commissions
It’s always good to go to a political launch with very low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised to find yesterday’s NSW Greens party launch not nearly as bad as I expected. Real policies were announced, Bob Brown was eloquent and passionate, and there were only a couple of the sort of cultish, quasi-religious moments that irritate the crap out of me.
Fresh from the e drug scandal, Firth fronts the Balmain forum
Twenty-two retiring MPs can’t be wrong. Campaigning to be elected to NSW parliament as a Labor MP in 2011 is a bitch of a task. Crikey went to an MP forum in Balmain to see just how tough it will be for one embattled Labor member.
Morgan poll: Coalition ahead in NSW
A Morgan phone poll in NSW state politics has Labor on 22 per cent of the primary vote, the Coalition on 53 per cent and the Greens on 13.5 per cent, with the Coalition’s two-party lead at 65-35, reports William Bowe.
Balmain, the birthplace of Labor, taking on a decidedly Green tinge
The knives are starting to appear in the Balmain electorate. If the polls are right, the suburb that gave birth to the Australian Labor Party in 1891 could fall to the Greens in 2011 — a stark symbol of the depth of the voters’ anger with the state government.
NSW Newspoll: ALP takes another hiding
The latest NSW Newspoll has Labor’s primary vote down 4 points to 26%, the Coalition up 2 to 44% and the Greens vaulting 5 to an unprecedented 17%, reports William Bowe.
Currawong Beach, Labor and the laps of developers
What a spectacle: the conservatives and arch-conservatives voting with the Greens to protect the Unions NSW-owned holiday venue from Labor-backed developers, writes Alex Mitchell.
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Tips and rumours
About Senate preferences: the NSW Greens have a deal with Labor to swap Senate preferences in NSW. This is part 2 of the deal. Part 1 was the NSW State election where the NSW Greens delivered preferences to Labor in 23 marginals, in return for Upper House preferences, and worked well. Part 2 is the […]
