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Peter CampbellAustralian Greens candidate for Kooyong in 2004 |
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STOP PRESS: Kooyong Results · The Greens primary vote
in Kooyong increased from 10.7% (in 2001) to 12.3%, while the sitting member Petro Georgiou suffered a
swing against him of 2%, which is opposite to the state-wide swing to the
Coalition in Victoria · Kooyong received
the 11th highest Green primary vote in Australia, demonstrating that the Green’s effectiveness in
bringing to the forefront key issues such as Tasmanian forests, funding for
public education and services before tax cuts struck a chord with voters in
Kooyong · The Greens got
strong support from Kooyong voters despite Petro Georgiou engaging in dirty
tricks by misrepresenting his
position on treatment of asylum seekers in the closing days of the election
campaign · The Greens have
done well despite sustained attacks and gross misrepresentation of our
policies by John Howard and the Herald Sun. It is clear that progressive Greens policies on the environment
through to social justice enjoy good support from the public, but are treated
by contempt by the Coalition who engage in the worst behaviour we see in
politics · Unfortunately, the
ALP and the Democrats have shut Greens Senate Candidate David Risstrom out of
the Senate by sending their Senate
preferences to the right wing Family First party and have given John Howard
control of the Senate. The
Democrats appear to have done this out of desperation. The ALP did this as a gamble to get their Jacinta Collins
re-elected. A lot of people
would not have voted for either the Democrats or the ALP above the line in
the Senate if they had known this could have happened. Kooyong results
from AEC website Senate results
from www.pollbludger.com How
party preferences picked Family First (The Age) |
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Greens
Kooyong Campaign Launch
The traditional Liberal
seat of Kooyong in inner east Melbourne is looking increasingly marginal as
voters flock to the Greens. But in a twist on the 'Doctors Wives' syndrome,
Greens number 1 Senate candidate David Risstrom and Greens Kooyong candidate
Peter Campbell partners are both female doctors. David Risstrom, Greens Victorian lead Senate Candidate stated that “the traditional Liberal seat of Kooyong is going marginal and going Green.” For more information, visit Watch out for the
"Doctors Husbands" and The Greening of
Kooyong |
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The
Greens offer an optimistic alternative to the major parties. We need strong
voices in our Parliament for the environment, social justice and peace. Your
Green vote helps us to achieve a fair, independent and sustainable Australia. I have been
active in both local and national conservation and sustainability issues and
campaigns for over 20 years, including the protection of native forest and
wilderness areas, promotion of public transport and renewable energy, and the
ending of uranium mining. I was born in and have been educated in Melbourne,
and have a degree in Agricultural Science and a Graduate Diploma in
Computing. I work in Information Technology, and enjoy regular cycling
for commuting, recreation and racing. We have
renovated our Surrey
Hills house to be environmentally friendly and are now exporting
electricity to the grid. With twenty solar panels, we make more
electricity than we consume. We are now self sufficient for
water. I am also active
with Bushwalkers Search and Rescue as a Field Organiser, committee member and
search participant. I stood for the
Greens for the seat of Kooyong at the 2001 federal election on a "no
native forest logging" platform. There was a ground swell of
support for the Green's policies at this time - over 10% voted Green. In 2002 I stood
for the Greens for the Victorian upper house seat of East Yarra.
Support for the Greens and our policies increased further – with over 15%
voting Green. In this election, the Green primary vote was very high in the
lower house seast of Kew (17% for Dr Cheryl Clark) and Hawthorn (19%
for Tania Giles). On the strength of these results, these seats cannot be regarded as "safe" any more - there is a growing chance that a Green will be elected to either State or Federal parliament. So your vote for the Greens really does count. |
Email: kooyong@vic.greens.org.au
Postal: GPO Box 4589, Melbourne, VIC 3001 |
Media Releases and Letters
29 August 2004 - Greens campaign
for Kooyong: Kooyong Issues 7 September 2004 -
Green voters driving forest protection outcomes 23 September 2004 (letter)
- Costello misrepresents Greens policy 23 September 2004 - Education
funding is important for Swinburne University in Kooyong 27 September 2004 - A
commuter-quality bicycle path for Kooyong 28 September 2004 -
Howard equivocates on forests 30 September 2004 -
The Greening of Kooyong - Traditional Liberal seat going marginal 30 September 2004 -
Watch out for the 'Doctors Husbands' 7 October 2004 - John
Howard’s chainsaws 7 October 2004 -
Liberals deserve F on asylum seeker issues 12 October 2004 - Greens
get a good result in Kooyong despite Liberal dirty tricks |
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About Kooyong
The
electorate of Kooyong is named after the Aboriginal word meaning ‘camp or
resting place’. It is an eastern inner metropolitan electorate in
Melbourne, Victoria, covering an area of approximately 49 sq km. It
stretches out east from the Yarra River and includes the suburbs of Kew, Kew
East, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Balwyn, Balwyn North and Canterbury, and parts
of Camberwell, Surrey Hills and Glen Iris.
For more
information on Kooyong, refer to the Australian
Electoral Commission website.
Greens policies for Kooyong
The
Australian Greens offer the people of Kooyong policies spanning the
environment, social justice, peace and democracy.
In particular, our forests desperately need
protection with National Park status. High conservation value native forest
continues to be destroyed in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. Over
80% of the logs extracted from these forests end up as woodchips, most of which
are exported.
Water is a
local issue
- logging in Melbourne’s water catchments must stop as it reduces Melbourne’s
water supply and water quality. This is sheer lunacy, and has been condoned by
both the current ALP Government (Steve Bracks) and the previous Liberal
Government (Jeff Kennett).
In January 2004,
Newspoll found 85 percent of Australians supported Federal Government
intervention to protect old growth forests from woodchipping in Tasmania. Labor
is set to endorse Prime Minister John Howard's agreement to cut down, burn and
poison the grandest forests in the Southern Hemisphere at the fastest rate in
history.
This can be
stopped – but we need the political will to do so. John Howard and Mark
Latham haven’t got it in them.
We must safeguard
the future of forest ecosystems and native species and the maintenance of
healthy water systems.
Greens
policies for Kooyong include:
- Forests - stop all clear felling and woodchipping of all
remaining high conservation value native forests and water catchment areas
in Victoria. Protect these forests with new National Parks, in Victoria
from the Central Highlands near Melbourne to East Gippsland, and in
Tasmania and New South Wales. We will promote the industry shift to
sustainable plantation resources.
- Climate change – Australia must ratify the Kyoto Protocol
immediately, back it with legislation, and take a lead role in reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, especially in Asia and the Pacific. The Howard
Government’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is an international
disgrace. We will ensure that buildings and appliances become
rapidly more energy efficient by introducing mandatory standards and
labelling.
- Water is Australia’s most precious resource. We
must legislate to guarantee ecologically adequate environmental flows for
all waterways, with priority initially on restoring flows in the
Murray-Darling system. We must drastically improve our management of
water, spanning catchments, distribution and usage. The Australian
Greens policy is to decrease per capita consumption of fresh water, and
expand opportunities for its re-use.
- Peace – John Howard’s support for invasion and
occupation of Iraq, in defiance of the United Nations, is unacceptable to
the majority of Australians. He committed Australia to an unjust
war, which was based on false pretences. Thousands of people in Iraq
have died. The Iraqi people want independence, yet the United States
seems determined to keep military, economic and political control
regardless of the human cost. Australian troops must be brought home now
and Iraqis’ allowed their self-determination. We need a new relationship
with the United States that ends Australia’s role as deputy sheriff in the
Asia-Pacific. We must now strive for peace.
- Transport - design and fund improved public transport,
particularly upgrades to rail, take GST off fares and build dedicated
bicycle paths for commuting and general urban transport. Implement a
program to move to compressed natural gas fuel (CNG) for private
transport. I will also strive to shift the Federal Goverment focus
from building more freeways to providing better public transport. It
is vitally important that we upgrade the national rail network to make it
competitive with road for freight. Currently, road freight between
Brisbane and Melbourne is 10 hours quicker than by rail. Rail needs to be
at least as fast as road.
- Preserve our open spaces – the beautiful open
space around Kew Cottages must be preserved. Residents should be offered
the option of clustered housing on the site rather than being forced into
the community without adequate support. Protect Macleay Park from
more development.
- Appropriate local
development - ensuring broad community consultation and striking a balance
between improving amenity and preserving historical features and the
character of our suburbs.
- Pre school services - more Federal
funding for local kindergartens – there is a shortage of kindergarten
places in Kooyong.
- Point Nepean – We will ensure it
is protected will full National Park status, and stop the Federal
government selling off our heritage.
- Youth - increase
participation of youth at all levels of policy making, improved access to
health services, and increase employment and vocational training
opportunities.
- Public media - restore the public funding and independence
of the ABC and SBS.
- Employment - restore training programs for unemployed
people and create jobs in renewable energy and recycling sectors.
Some targets I have set to achieve in Kooyong are:
- More funding for child care and kindergarten places
- Proper and genuine community consultation on urban development matters
- A commute-quality bicycle path along the railway line from the Yarra to Surrey Hills and beyond
- Working with State Government to ensure protection of our open spaces for all to enjoy
- Stop logging in Melbourne’s water catchments
- More federal funding for public transport to improve efficiency and quality of travel
- Working with the Boorondara Council to get more pedestrian areas in community centres
- I will strive for reconciliation with the
Wurundjeri, and acknowledgment of their very special status as the
traditional owners of Kooyong, their “camp and resting place”.
Issues for Kooyong identified by visitors to this website:
