Larissa Waters Greens
News Letter
1/8
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.
@petros @Sheep_Overboard
Bang on the head! Petros
@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!
Don't sound ligit?
Look yourself!
Sound ok?
Look anyway!
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.
6/6
Not from Adam:
Some Not-Shit Candidates running in the 2025 election: House of Reps & Senate
List and links to, of independents running in 2025
Bookmark for later
Greens News
From Adam Bandt
1/6
Hi Friend,
Can you believe it’s almost been a week since the election kicked off? And what a week it’s been!
We’ve already seen a huge wave of support for the Greens right across the country – with thousands of people just like you signing up to help get our message out.
We’re fired up. We’re prepared. And we’re hitting the ground running.
1/...
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.
Queuing at the polling station for #WesternAustralia's government election.
Meant to #VoteEarly but woke up and it's election day
#Perth has some tiny drizzle patches drifting by.
Lookung forward to the #LegislativeCouncil paper - some 25 candidates EDIT: Groupings! get my #PreferentialVoting - yay! (The candidates have the electors attendance pretty much guarranteed. So "winding them up enough to get them to actually vote" is removed from the equation.)
PREFERENTIAL VOTING IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL (MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT) AVAILABLE TO VOTERS - AND IT IS UNDERTHREAT
https://mastodon.social/@thejuicemedia/113484933664680049
>" Coalition and the Labor Party are a unity ticket on trying to dupe our democracy into voting for the major parties "
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/helen-haines-political-donations-reform-minority/104929724
HOW TO PREFERENTIAL VOTE
@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.
@Herman_Lentil
1. Greens
2. Teals
3. Labor
4.Liberal
The benefits of preferential voting.
#Australians all let us read Joyce*.
For we are literary,
We read our books down at the beach,
And gaze out at the sea.
*William, not Alan.
The #AustralienGovernment is going big on #PreferentialVoting.
You can find their latest up Elon's X.
Or at the evil-hell training school below.
@tonycart
For all the disappointments he's still lightyears better than Morrison/Dutton in my eyes.
And our #PreferentialVoting system is looking so good.
#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)
