Griffith candidates at the electoral commission ballot draw
Eleven candidates have nominated to contest the 2014 Griffith by-election, the AEC announced on the 29th January. The candidate nominations, in ballot paper order, that were officially declared at 12noon on the 21st. Click below for the Westender story on the candidate or, failing that, the candidate statement.
You can meet the Griffith candidates in the flesh at the Souths Leagues Club on Wednesday February 6th. Don’t forget to register your questions with us online, now.
- Timothy Lawrence, Stable Population Party
- Geoff Ebbs, The Greens
- Christopher David Williams, Family First Party
- Karel Boele, Independent
- Anthony Ackroyd, Bullet Train for Australia
- Anne Reid, Secular Party of Australia
- Terri Butler, Australian Labor Party
- Melanie Rose Thomas, Pirate Party Australia
- Travis James Windsor, Independent – Travis on Travis
- Ray Sawyer, Katter’s Australian Party
- Bill Glasson, Liberal National Party of Queensland
Election facts
- The same number of people nominated as a candidate in the electoral Division of Griffith at the 2013 federal election
- Candidates and the result for the seat of Griffith in the 2013 federal election
WHAT DO CANDIDATES IN GRIFFITH THINK ABOUT IMMIGRATION?
The Reduce Immigration team recently contacted each of the candidates in the Griffith by-election to seek their views on Australia’s immigration numbers.
We let them know that we advocate a reduction in Australia’s overall immigration intake and are not opposed to all immigration, but believe that high immigration adversely affects our environmental sustainability, social cohesion and cultural integrity. Then we invited them to respond to these questions:
>>> What are your views on immigration numbers?
>>> Will you help promote the “REDUCE IMMIGRATION” write-on campaign during the lead-up to the by-election?
>>> Do you have any comments, suggestions or requests relating to these matters?
Of the 11 candidates, we received no response from five and a mixture of unenlightening and guarded responses from the remaining six. To read the detail, visit our website.
http://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/what-do-candidates-in-griffithvotes-think-about-immigration/
It’s unfortunate that, this time around, voters in Griffith who are concerned about immigration don’t have any candidate to support – as far as we know! But all Griffith voters can use their ballot paper on 8 February 2014 to send the REDUCE IMMIGRATION message to Canberra on polling day.
Learn more about the REDUCE IMMIGRATION campaign at: http://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/
Abbott is unlawfully helping the people smugglers by supplying them with lifeboats he didnt take this to the election he told a mistruth when he said there was no tow back , do you agree there should be a new federal election for a mandate to do this
To All – are you concerned about the dumping of dredging waste on the iconic and world heritage listed Great Barrier Reef? If so, what will you do to stop it?
To All Candidates
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia had its hottest year ever in 2013. We have now experienced heatwaves and destructive fires in the first month of 2014. Do you accept the scientific evidence (provided by the CSIRO and Australia’s Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb AC, among many others), that on the balance of probabilities, the earth is experiencing significant climate change which is directly attributable to human activity?
If you do accept the science, then what action do you think governments at the state, national, and global level should be taking to halt that change?
To those candidate who say they just don’t know. Why, when there is a wealth of published and very readable material available on the subject, have you not bothered to do the work of reading, of asking questions and of weighing up the evidence?
On Medicare
Abbott says he knocked the $ 6 fee on the head, but how can the people beleive him when he tried to back flip on gonski , and he also promised his government would be open and transparent, which is not true at all
Mr Glasson, Ms Butler, Mr Ebbs, and other parties
In the latter half of last year The European Investment Bank, international Energy Agency, ceased and restricted funding for any new investments in coal mines citing the economic, health and environmental risk posed by Climate Change.
Within the last two months Norways largest Pension fund Storebrand and US based Divest-Invest Philanthropy coalition with a combined asset base of $52 billion dollars divested all investments associated with fossil fuels citing the financial risks posed by Stranded Assetts, authorities such as Warren Buffet, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett, and analysts from Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deutche Bank, Citibank and Goldman Sachs predicted that coal faces an ongoing structural decline.
Here in Queensland major coal projects based in the Galilee Basin are struggling, despite State Government financial commitments, to secure financing.
My question is:
What is the current Federal Liberal Government and the Federal Labour Party doing to prepare Australia for the collapse of thermal coal as a source of export revenue and the subsequent effects of being a major employer in regional QLD?
and Mr Glasson How does the proposed dismantling of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, a profit making statutory body, tasked with identifying financially feasible businesses that will operate in a carbon constrained world, contribute to dealing with this crisis?
Mr Glasson, you say that you can give Griffith a better voice in Canberra because your party is in Government, But what about Sharman Stone – she is in your party and is desparately concerned about her electorate because of SPC, but the PM and the party are ignoring her. In party politics how can you be a true reprentative of the electorate?
Question for Bill Glasson:
You and your party are promoting the fact that you plan to:
* Scrap the carbon tax;
* Review the Renewable Energy Target;
* Hold another public enquiry into wind farms;
* Shut down the Climate Change Authority;
* Shut down the Clean Energy Finance Corporation;
* At the state level, you have recently removed sea level rise from planning policies to enable more development;
* And your cabinet does not even have a science minister, let alone a minister for climate change.
Do you deny that climate change is happening, or else do you not think it will affect Griffith, or else are you just ignoring it? What is your climate policy?
Question for Terri Butler in particular, but also other candidates:
Every day, numerous coal trains trundle through our sunny suburbs, shedding coal dust, noise and diesel fumes into our lungs and those of our children. If elected, will you advocate for a cap on the number of trains that pass through Brisbane in order to protect our communities and our children from the documented health dangers of coal dust, and the grinding irritation of their incessant noise?