[extropy-chat] Greens do well in Oz elections

Brett Paatsch bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au
Sun Oct 10 04:33:56 UTC 2004


Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 13:06 -0500, Damien Broderick wrote:
> > In the Australian national federal election, the conservatives have been
> > returned to office.
>
> .. the new Family First Party, probably the most socially conservative
> party around now, picked up 2%, even though they run in only 2/3
> of the electorates, and what's worse, they seem to now hold the
> balance of power in the senate (but counting for that hasn't finished).

We could be in for some very interesting times in politics in Australia
over the next three years with the coalition actually having the power
to get laws through both houses of federal parliament in their own
right or with either a single vote from one democrat or a family first
party.

This could be a good thing in that the government will be able to
govern.  It will be very hard for the government to blame anyone
else for bad decisions or for playing a spoiling role.

It may also be possible to see to what extent religion (which infiltrates
all political parties) effects policy especially policy relating to GM,
stem cells laws etc.

Brett Paatsch





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