how green is your political party?
by Pippa ~ November 23rd, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized.
how green is your political party? by sighmon.
Courtesy of Sighmon
hey guys,
so if you’re wondering exactly how green the party that you’re voting for on saturday is, check some of the reports below.
On climate change the Australian Conservation Foundation rated the Greens climate change policies at the top with a score of 94/100, ahead of the Democrats on (90/100), Labor (58/100), Family First (34/100) and the Coalition (21/100). See:
tinyurl.com/2skxtmThe Big Switch website compiled by Conservation Councils, Greenpeace and Get Up! meanwhile was topped by the Greens (4.8 out of 5), the Democrats (4.4) and followed by Labor (1.9) , Family First (1.2) with the Liberal and National parties on a disappointing and sceptical 0.8. See:
tinyurl.com/2tg6pnThe Climate Institute meanwhile gives the Greens and Democrats a chart-topping 90 per cent for their policies on climate change with Labor on 60% and Liberal on 30%.
See:
tinyurl.com/3al4m9hope it’s useful!
best, si.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I was, somewhat surprisingly, asked a number of times on Saturday what would happen to the ballot papers after they’d all been counted.
It was my great pleasure to reply that they are counted several times (House of Reps in the local polling place, Senate now sorted and counted by computer in Canberra), then packed up neatly into storage for a few years (I’m remembering three but four - the length of the term - makes more sense), “just in case there is a recount”, before finally being pulped and recycled.
It seems, while the governing party may not be terribly conscious of these things, the bureaucracy behind it often is