A cat (sometimes called a pu55y or pussy) is a small, indestructible, furry automaton often used to provide you with love and companionship when things fuck up in your shit life. ~ ED
From the Department of Kenny Glenn Now Probably Regrets His Cruel Action comes:
A woman who was filmed putting a cat in a wheelie bin has been offered police protection after being identified by the RSPCA.
Where is the Dustyce?
Mário Machado is líder máximo of the Portuguese franchise of the international neo-Nazi skinhead network known as the Hammerskins. In Australia, the franchise holders call themselves the Southern Cross Hammerskins, and are coming to Melbourne on September 25.
Mário Machado jailed
The Portugal News Online
August 21, 2010Neo-Nazi leader Mário Machado has been jailed for seven years and two months this week, for the crimes of coercion, robbery, kidnapping and illegal possession of weapons.
The leader of the nationalist far right party, the ‘Hammerskins’, was finally sentenced to seven years and two months at Loures Courts on Tuesday, after sentencing was postponed twice beforehand. A further two suspects, Rui Dias and Fernando Massas, were jailed for nine years and seven years and ten months, respectively.
Nuno Cerejeiro (two years and two months) and João Dourado (ten months) received suspended sentences, whilst Bruno Ramos, Bruno Monteiro and Nuno Themudo were acquitted.
Mário Machado had previously been convicted to four years and ten months in 2008 for racial discrimination, intimidation, damage and assault with intent to cause serious bodily harm, amongst other related crimes.
Another nutzi to have been found guilty of breaking the law recently is Hal Turner. On August 13, 2010, the Internet Tough Guy was found guilty of making death threats against federal judges. Turner is currently in prison awaiting sentencing, and faces up to 10 years jail and a $250,000 fine.
Apart from being batshit, Turner’s trick was to cultivate an audience of psychotic racists, and on occasion to feed infos concerning their madcap plans to the FBI. A shock confession at a court hearing in July 2009 of his tricksy, double-dealing ways — first uncovered by pissed-off hackers 18 months prior to this — shook off most of his supporters, but not all.
Thank Heavens no loudmouthed nutzi Internet Tough Guy from Australia does the exact same thing eh?
I beg Odin to watch over you with his loving eye / If my life must end for you and my race then I will … give it / Your smile melts the most Iron heart, your holy body wrapped in the red, white and black of the Swastika flag…
~ ‘Aryan Princess’, Bradley Trappitt, May 22, 2005
Bradley Neil Trappitt and three friends, allegedly members of the local franchise of neo-Nazi network Combat 18, were apparently drunk on February 4, 2010, and so decided it would be both ace and grouse to fire three shots at the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Queens Park in Perth. Trappitt was fined more than $9000 for his involvement in the shooting (co-accused, Jacob Marshall Holt, 24, previously pleaded guilty on similar charges and was given a seven-month jail sentence suspended for 12 months).
Trappitt was charged with wilfully damaging property, possessing an unlicensed firearm and unlawfully discharging a firearm from across the road.
In the Perth Magistrates Court on Monday, the 25-year-old was fined $5000 for criminal damage, $3750 for his part in the reparation costs for the mosque, $1000 for the two firearm offences and $62.60 in court costs.
Magistrate Steven Heath said the fine needed to be a “substantial one to reflect the seriousness” of the crime.
He said Trappitt’s involvement could be distinguished from his co-accused as a “lesser role” and accepted that he co-operated when he was questioned.
But he said it was still a “foolish decision” to participate in the crime.
Trappitt’s lawyer Curt Hofmann said his client drove the car to the mosque but never got out of the vehicle.
He said Trappitt was trying to show “bravado” among his friends and was acting out of “stupidity”.
~ Mosque shooter fined more than $9000, The Age (AAP), August 23, 2010
Bradley is innocent until proven now considered guilty, obviously; curiously, he’s also friends with Welf Herfurth, the (former) ‘leader’ of the dwindling ranks of ‘national anarchists’ in Australia. (Herfurth now appears to prefer to spend his time organising grown-ups in the local franchise of the neo-Nazi Volksfront network in Sydney.) Along with Herfurth and a range of other fascist creeps, Trappitt is BFF with the Sydney-based Creatard Chris Smith.
Despite this, “Trappitt’s lawyer Curt Hofmann had earlier told the court the shooting wasn’t racially motivated but just a stupid stunt by four friends who wanted to show off after they had been drinking.”
LOL.
‘Combat 18’ originated in the UK in the late 1980s as a militant, anti-anti-fascist network dedicated to causing terror among neo-Nazism’s political opponents — “left-wing bookshops, gay pubs and anti-apartheid activists” — and to defending the organising activity of its parent networks ‘Blood & Honour’ and the BNP. Those involved also referred to Combat 18 as ‘Terror Machine’, and took great delight in the fear and loathing its activity was intended to generate. Like many other stories on the fringes of the far right, however, it ended in tears: former leader Paul ‘Charlie’ Sargent one of two Aryan Supermen convicted of murdering kameraden Christopher Castle (by sticking a knife 20cm into his back) in 1997.
Since then, C18 — which, while also gathering a reputation as a state-sponsored honeypot, cultivated links with Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland/The Six Counties — grew and expanded overseas. Currently, C18 appears to eke out a sporadically violent existence nestled among broader fascist networks in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, while also remaining closely tied to one of two splinters in the neo-Nazi network ‘Blood & Honour’. In Australia and New Zealand, B&H is aligned with non-C18 elements, and in particular the local franchises of the US-based Hammerskins network. Their principal bonehead rival is another local franchise of yet another US-based group called Volksfront. In the US (and elsewhere) the rivalry between the two groups can be quite intense, even bloody, but locally it’s all sunshine and lollipops, and the two, otherwise antagonistic groups have learned to play nicely with one another.
Or at least, nobody has stabbed anyone in the back.
Yet.
Like seemingly ever other Jew-hatin’ Australian, Trappitt (‘Aussie_Knight’) posted on the White supremacist website Stormfront (joining in November 2004), contributing some very moving poetry [stormfront.org/forum/t206672/] while also taking the opportunity to riff on some neglected aspects of modern German history: “You want to know who started the War… THE JEWS[!]” [stormfront.org/forum/t162628-6/#post1470826].
The Boys from Brazil Australia maintained a website — terrormachine.net — taken over from the Norwegian C18. It’s closed now, and the archive wiped, but it used to advertise neo-Nazi merch and contain occasional announcements regarding the group’s infrequent activities. If I was a defence lawyer, I might characterise it as not racially motivated but just a stupid site by four friends who wanted to show off after they’d been drinking. In any case, the site was registered to a bloke called Jake. From Perth. Several years ago he, along with Stormfront moderator Paul Innes (‘Steelcap Boot’), helped spread David Lane’s ashes around town: David Lane being, of course, the dead neo-Nazi terrorist from the US who coined the ’14 words’.
As for The Weerheym Manoeuvre…
Six years ago, another small group of neo-Nazis found themselves on trial in Perth for similarly foolish and stupid behaviour / boys will be boys / ‘nigger’ and ‘sand-nigger terrorist’ are simply everyday discourse / Nine sisters twelve cousins and I’m fucking the lot / yadda yadda yadda.
Before he was sentenced to a six-month suspended sentence this week, Weerheym’s lawyer, Michael Tudori, told the Perth Magistrates Court Weerheym was not interested in the ANM and had not wanted to take part in the graffiti…
Weerheym was not jailed because he was deemed to have played a much lesser role as the driver.
~ Paige Taylor, ‘Graffiti driver a secret white supremacist’, The Australian, August 7, 2004
History repeats.
The next two major fascist assemblies are the Sydney Forum over the weekend of September 18/19 (at which the Canadian neo-Nazi and Holocaust denialist Paul Fromm is expected to speak) and the following weekend in Melbourne, when Justin O’Brien of Blood & Honour Australia (and Hold Fast Body Art) will be helping to organise the 17th (?) annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial gig.
But moaron that later.
Speaking of tattoos…
See also : Combat 18 / terrormachine clunks into Perth court (June 4, 2010) | C18 “terror machine” breaks down in Perth (May 25, 2010).
So how did the white nationalists fare at the polls in 2010?
On the whole, fairly poorly.
The largest party, One Nation, fielded 21 Lower House candidates, the most popular of which received 2,721 votes, or 3.35%; the least popular 443 votes (0.50%). Most ran last or second last. In the Upper House, there was a very modest increase in the vote, which remains at about 1/2 of 1%. The ON brand has lost almost all of its lustre, and it’s likely that the party will continue to bleed into other groups such as AF or APP, especially as it no longer has any sitting members in any Parliaments. Further, the success of several independent rural candidates may inspire others to shed the brand that was once a benefit but now appear to be more of a burden to racial conservatives.
AF fielded a handful of candidates, as did APP. Like ON, none achieved much more than expected.
(NB. All results are preliminary.)
Australia First
AF had four candidates in the Lower House: Terry Cooksley in Chifley, Tony Pettitt in Greenway, Mick Saunders in Lindsay and Alex Norwick in Deakin. Cooksley received 943 votes (1.17%) and came last, Pettitt got 780 votes (0.98%) and placed 7th; Saunders scored a little higher with 975 votes (1.17%) in a smaller field, coming second last, while Norwick came last in his competition, getting 295 votes (0.37%) — thus proving to be even less popular than the free market fanatics in the LDP.
In the Senate contest in QLD, veteran right-wing agitators Peter Schuback and Nick Maine gained 9,680 votes (0.40%) — more than doubling the Socialist Alliance vote (3,806 votes) and rivaling the Christian fundamentalists of the Christian Democratic Party (10,499 votes) in popularity.
Australian Protectionist
The APP contested one Lower House seat in South Australia. Party Chairman Andrew (James) Phillips scored 993 votes in the contest for Mayo, or 1.08%. Phillips was one of two nominally Independent candidates in the seat, the other being Bill Spragg of the Stop Population Growth Now Party. Spragg got 2,404 votes (2.62%); both Phillips and Spragg managed to overcome the Australian Democrats (948 votes) and The Climate Sceptics (655 votes).
In the Senate contest in NSW, Darrin Hodges and Nick Folkes pledged to protect Australia from Communists, Islam, Greens, Muslims, homosexuals, followers of Muhammad and the Australia First Party. They got 1,844 votes (0.05%) for their efforts.
One Nation
NSW
PARSONS, Michael got 1,595 votes (1.90%), coming last in a field of four.
With the benefit of a donkey, WATERSON, Victor received 731 votes (0.85%), a gain of 0.55% on 2007, placed sixth in a field of eleven, and was beaten off by the Sex candidate.
Party President Bob Vinnicombe scored 1,351 votes (1.83%) in Bennelong, a gain of 0.74% on 2007, and placed sixth in a field of eight.
Louise Kedwall was pitted against Terry Cooksley (AF) in Chifley, and narrowly defeated him. Kedwall scored 1,585 votes (1.97% / +0.67%) while Cooksley got 943 (1.17%).
Richard Putral gained 991 votes (1.11%), a slight reduction (-0.09%) on 2007, managing to beat a Christian fundamentalist from Family First into last place.
A donkey befriended Peter Bussa, and he received 1,599 votes, or 1.85%, and placed fifth of seven candidates.
Jennifer Leayr was ON’s * candidate, gained 2,721 votes (3.35%), placed fourth, and beat a Christian fundamentalist into last place.
John Lawrence Cunningham (728 votes / 0.89%) narrowly defeated Zac Hambides of the Socialist Equality Party (576 / 0.70%) and thereby avoided coming last.
The Great White Hope of White Australia is Kate Melissa McCulloch. She got 2,340 votes or 2.99%, coming fourth in a field of eight.
New England returned an Independent to Canberra. Brian Charles Dettman, on the other hand, gained just 794 votes (0.87% / -0.29%), but still managed to defeat the LaRouchite Richard Innes Witten (306 votes / 0.34% / +0.08%).
Kevin Leayr received 1,044 votes, or 1.27%, a gain of 0.32%. Perhaps courtesy of the donkey vote — and !nataS — he managed to defeat two Xtian fundamentalists.
Craig Hesketh was ON’s candidate in Riverina, and despite the support of AF — and a clear hatred of “race mixers” and “immigrant whores” — he failed to mobilise the electorate in favour of his vision of an ethnically-cleansed Australia. Indeed, even The Greens — those “sick f*cks” — managed to outpoll Hesketh (1,410 votes / 1.60% versus 3,972 votes / 4.51%). “We had some negative reactions at the polling booths because people believe there is a stigma associated with the party but those days are over”, the racist moaron complained to a local newspaper.
Don F Parkes presided over a vote of 568 votes for ON, a slight drop (0.67% / -0.39%), and came eighth in a field of of ten.
Finally, Milton M Alchin defeated the Secular Party candidate, gaining 1,726 votes — 2.06%.
NT
KEARNEY, John rode a donkey into Solomon, received 1,505 votes (2.95%) and easily defeated the LaRouchite Trudy Campbell (668 votes / 1.31% / +0.83%).
QLD
The seat of Bowman pitted CHIDGEY, Dave against KENT, John Aaron, of the DLP, for PLACE, Last. CHIDGEY got 865 votes (1.06% / +0.53) while KENT got 768 (0.94%).
Ian Rossiter increased the ON vote by 0.79% to 1.60%. He also came last (fifth of five).
Santo Ferraro got 1,875 votes (2.30%), almost doubling (+1.09%) the result of 2007. He also placed last (fifth of five).
SA
Anton Horvat gained 662 votes (0.78% / +0.20%), a conspiracy of truly global proportions ensuring that he beat the Climate Skeptics into last place.
Jack King is a dunce. He got 443 votes (0.50%) and came last.
WA
GAULT, George rode into Moore on a donkey, grabbed 1,471 votes — 1.79%, an increase of 0.74% — and came last.
Upper House
In total, ON received 69,972 first preference votes or 0.56%, an increase of 0.14% on 2007. Most of those votes came from the party’s strongholds in NSW and QLD: 22,926 (0.56% / +0.15%) votes in NSW and 22,353 votes (0.91% / +0.74%) votes in QLD. In VIC, ON got 12,010 votes (0.37% / -0.05%), in WA 7,537 votes (0.62% / -0.35%) and in SA 5,146 votes (0.51% / -0.10%).
The 2010 Australian Federal election saw several score socialists and — notwithstanding The Greens — a handful of communists stand for seats in both the Lower (House of Representatives) and Upper (Senate) Houses of the Federal parliament. In summary, the socialist vote witnessed minor increases in most electorates, with some small decline in others. The biggest vote was for Mike Head in Fowler: 2,700 votes, or 3.51%; the lowest for Ron Poulsen (Communist League) in Blaxland, with 288 votes (0.39%).
Below is a summary of the preliminary results:
Lower House
Adelaide (SA)
Gemma Weedall, a yoof activist for the Socialist Alliance (SA), failed in her attempt to poll vault over Sports Minister Kate Ellis, gaining 786 votes (0.90%). Weedall placed fifth overall, defeating a free market fundamentalist Liberal Democrat (716 / 0.82%) and narrowly losing to a why-do-they-bother liberal Democrat (820 / 0.94%).
Blaxland (NSW)
Richard Phillips of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) was one of two Trots in this very safe Labor seat, and he and his donkey easily leaped over the mystical 1% barrier, gaining 2,060 votes (2.79%), and coming fifth of eight candidates. Ron Poulsen, perhaps the sole member of the secretive Communist League, fared less well, placing last with 288 votes (0.39%).
Brisbane (QLD)
One of a mere five candidates to appeal to the people of Pig City for political support, Ewan Saunders (SA) came last on 717 votes or 0.88% — still a gain on 2007’s 0.52%.
Calwell (VIC)
Under the wise leadership of Peter Byrne, the SEP fared much better in 2010 than it did in 2007, Byrne receiving 1,181 votes or 1.35%, a gain of 0.96%. Byrne was last of five candidates, a Xtian fundamentalist — Praise Jesus! — being blessed with 3,851 votes (4.40% / +0.06%).
Corio (VIC)
Another very safe Labor seat, Sue Bull successfully reversed the loss of form witnessed in 2007, gaining 971 votes or 1.17% (+0.77%). In 2004, SA’s Tim Gooden got 505 votes (0.63%). Like Byrne in Calwell, Bull came last of five candidates, and — Hallelujah! — was beaten by a Xtian for fourth (3,028 votes / 3.66% / -0.30%).
Cunningham (NSW)
Jess Moore wants Cunningham. Last time, 706 voters (0.84%) supported her. This time, 1,303 voters joined the socialist struggle (1.46%), a gain of 0.68%. Moore avoided coming last by beating John Flanagan of the ‘Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)’ (1,240 votes).
Denison (TAS)
Melanie Barnes (SA) has smashed the 1% barrier, receiving 856 votes or 1.32%, a gain of 0.56% on 2007’s result. She was last of five candidates, her nearest rival gaining approximately 10,000 more votes than she.
Fowler (NSW)
Mike Head came, saw, and conquered in Fowler, the law-talking SEP guy getting 2,700 votes, or 3.51%, the highest % vote of any socialist candidate. On the other hand, Head was one of just four candidates. And he rode a donkey to the poll.
Fremantle (WA)
Sanna Andrew (SA) found 662 votes (0.80%) in Fremantle, an increase of 0.35% on 2007. Sanna was sixth of seven candidates, McENCROE, Keith John (Democratic Labor Party), being the least popular candidate with a mere 622 votes (0.76%) in his favour.
Gellibrand (VIC)
SA’s Ben Courtice and the SEP’s Tania Baptist split the socialist vote in Gellibrand. BAPTIST, Tania got 487 votes (0.58%) while COURTICE, Ben got 529 (0.64%, down 0.95%). BAPTIST thereby came last and COURTICE second last.
Grayndler (NSW)
Pip Hinman (SA) once again confronted the SEP, on this occasion in the person of James Cogan, the SEP’s national organiser. In 2007, Hinman (1,394 votes / 1.66%) faced down the SEP’s Patrick O’Connor (328 votes / 0.39%). In 2004, SA’s Sue Johnson got 1,010 votes (1.34%). Anthony Albanese holds down the top spot in Grayndler, and is a member of the Socialist Left faction of the ALP. Note that Cogan was a candidate for Chifley in 2007. He got 1,069 votes.
In the end, COGAN, James Michael, riding on a donkey, got 1,041 votes (1.25% / +0.86%) while HINMAN, Pip got a shade less: 1,023 (1.23%).
Griffith (QLD)
Hamish Chitts’ is a bus-driving former soldier and member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP). In 2007, SA, from which the RSP split in 2008, stood Jim McIlroy (293 votes / 0.35%) while in 2004 it stood Lynda Hansen (580 votes / 0.72%). Chitts (602 votes / 0.75%) lost to former PM KRudd, but managed to avoid coming last by trouncing the LaRouchite Jan Pukallus (175 votes / 0.22%).
Kingsford-Smith (NSW)
Sadly, the SEP’s Zac Hambides, following on comrade Alex Safari’s 1,096 votes (1.26%) in 2007, scored just 576 votes, a drop of 0.56%, coming last, and proving less popular than One Nation (728 votes) and the Democrats (1,052). Peter Garrett eh?
Lalor (VIC)
“Gillard out! Gillard out! Hear the people scream, hear the people shout! Socialism is the alternative! Van Rudd for Lalor!”
Maybe not.
Rudd was the subject of a really neat TV show screened during the week before the election, revealing, inter alia, that his old man, Murray, has a) a very dry sense of humour, and b) to have seriously under-estimated his son’s electoral appeal. Predicting just 24 or 25 votes for Van, in reality the revolutionary artiste got 516, or 0.50%, and placed eight in a field of nine, the remarkable Marc Aussie-Stone coming last.
Newcastle (NSW)
The seat of Newcastle is the third of four seats in which SA fought SEP — for socialism. Zane Alcorn (SA) contested local council elections in Newcastle in 2008, but stood for the seat of Wills in Victoria in 2007. In 2010, his rhyming skillz were pitted against those of Noel Holt — the SEP’s candidate for Newcastle in 2007. ALCORN, Zane gained a narrow victory over HOLT, Noel: Alcorn on 829 votes (1.01% / +0.62%) and Holt 627 (0.76% / +0.43%). The pair came sixth and seventh in a field of seven.
Parramatta (NSW)
In the final Lower House battle for socialist supremacy, the SEP’s Chris Gordon pitted his math against SA’s Duncan Roden’s yoof. (In 2007, SA’s Rachel Evans got 1,015 votes (1.19%), while the SEP’s Chris Gordon got 261 (0.31%).) This time around, Gordon got 1,203 votes or 1.54% (+1.38%), while Roden received 330 (0.42% / -0.14%). The pair came sixth and seventh in a field of seven.
Perth (WA)
Alex Bainbridge is SA’s man in Perth. (He was SA’s man in Denison in 2002.) Chris Latham was SA’s man in 2007 (464 votes / 0.59%) while Nikki Ulasowski got 984 votes (1.34%) in 2004. In 2010, Bainbridge increased the socialist vote by +0.22% (618 votes or 0.77%).
Reid (NSW)
The SEP’s Carolyn Kennett received 901 votes, or 1.13%. She came last.
Swan (WA)
Joe Lopez (SEP) scored 398 votes (0.50%) in Swan. He came last. This was nevertheless, an increase of 0.30% on 2007’s effort, and almost half way to the magical 1% barrier.
Sydney (NSW)
Communist Denis Doherty received 656 votes, or 0.83%. He came last.
Wills (VIC)
Trent Hawkins (SA) replaced Zane Alcorn (624 votes / 0.72%) in 2007 — who in turn displaced David Glanz (867 votes / 1.06%) in 2004. He got 725 votes (0.86%), a gain of 0.14%.
Upper House
vote1josephtoscanovictoriansenateticket2010.com — Joseph Toscano, Jenny Warfe and Andrew Sadauskas — received 3,842 votes (0.12%). Jo & Co. scored 5,695 votes or 0.18% in 2007.
In the race for a Senate seat, Socialists stood in several states: in VIC, SA — WINDISCH, Margarita and FIREBRACE, Sharon — got 3,016 votes (0.09%), while their SEP rivals (O’CONNOR, Patrick and VONGVIXAY, Keo) — with the benefit of the donkey vote — received 9,994 (0.31%). In NSW, EVANS, Rachel and ISKANDER, Soubhi (SA) rode on a donkey to gain 22,952 votes (0.57%); BEAMS, Nick and ZABALA, Gabriela (SEP) had to settle for 3,597 (0.09%). The donkey-less Communist Alliance fared less well, receiving 6,825 votes (0.17%).
In QLD, SA got 3,806 votes (0.16%), in SA 1,038 (0.10%) and in WA 1,258 (0.10%). In 2007, SA got 1,941 votes in QLD (0.08%), in SA 770 (0.08%) and in WA 928 (0.08%).
See also : Socialism vs. 2010 election (July 27, 2010) | Lenin Goes to Canberra? (Trot Guide 2010) (July 15, 2010) | Socialism vs. 2007 Federal Election: Results (November 25, 2007).
First, congratulations to Paul Howes (and David Feeney and Bill Shorten and Don Farrell and Karl Bitar and Bill Ludwig and Steve Hutchins and Mark Bishop and Mark Arbib) and the NSW Labor Right on a successful campaign. Were it not for their efforts, it’s highly unlikely that The Mad Monk would now be in a position to form a minority government.
Secondly, on reflection, I believe that the possibility of a hung parliament is a reflection of a real division in the electorate: on the one hand, Uncle Rupert appeared to give his personal blessing to Labor; on the other hand, a number of his drones from sector 7-G advocated a vote for the Coalition.
Thirdly, after losing the seat of Melbourne to Adam Bandt of The Greens, Cath Bowtell said “the lesson from her loss was that Labor needed to get better at explaining its policies”. Which is certainly possible. On the other hand, it may be that the Melbourne electorate understood Labor policies well enough, and ‘explained’ their verdict on them by voting for The Greens.
‘Cause they hate kids with cancer (as the famed VEXNEWS Investigations Unit discovered).
As for the rest, preliminary investigations reveal:
AUSTRALIA FIRST
Deakin : NORWICK, Alex : 233 : 0.36 : +0.36
Greenway : PETTITT, Tony : 688 : 1.00 : +1.00
Lindsay : SAUNDERS, Mick : 847 : 1.15 : +1.15
In the Senate race in QLD, AF got 7,316 votes (0.38%).
AUSTRALIAN PROJECTIONIST
Darrin Hodges and Nick Folkes can celebrate having received 1,198 votes (0.04%) in NSW in their quest to become Australian Senators. Oh, and in Mayo (SA), Party Chairman PHILLIPS, Andrew James, got 803 votes (1.05%).
ONE NATION
Macarthur : McCULLOCH, Kate Melissa : 1,999 : 2.89 : +2.89
Riverina : HESKETH, Craig : 1,201 : 1.57 : -0.38
In their tilt at the Senate, in Victoria Rosalyn and Philip Townsend got 8,660 votes, considerably less than the party’s 13,354 votes in 2007. Like Party President John Llewellyn Groves, I blame The Jew.
COMMUNIST
Sydney : DOHERTY, Denis : 486 : 0.83 : +0.83
(In NSW, the Communists got 5,236 votes (0.16%) for the Senate.)
COMMUNIST LEAGUE
Blaxland : POULSEN, Ronald : 219 : 0.35 : +0.35
REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST PARTY
Lalor : RUDD, Van : 428 : 0.49 : +0.49
Griffith : CHITTS, Hamish : 456 : 0.70 : +0.70
SOCIALIST ALLIANCE ~versus~ SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY
BAPTIST, Tania : Socialist Equality Party : 369 : 0.55 : +0.55
COURTICE, Ben : Socialist Alliance : 419 : 0.63 : -0.95
COGAN, James Michael : Socialist Equality Party : 849 : 1.22 : +0.85
HINMAN, Pip : Socialist Alliance : 879 : 1.27 : -0.41
GORDON, Chris : Socialist Equality Party : 923 : 1.43 : +1.29
RODEN, Duncan : Socialist Alliance : 252 : 0.39 : -0.12
In the race for a Senate seat, Socialists stood in several states: in VIC, SA — WINDISCH, Margarita and FIREBRACE, Sharon — got 2,280 votes (0.09%), while their SEP rivals (O’CONNOR, Patrick and VONGVIXAY, Keo) — with the benefit of the donkey vote — received 6,823 (0.28%). In NSW, EVANS, Rachel and ISKANDER, Soubhi (SA) rode on a donkey to gain 17,180 votes (0.54%); BEAMS, Nick and ZABALA, Gabriela (SEP) had to settle for 2,701 (0.08%).
In Newcastle, rapper ALCORN, Zane (Socialist Alliance) got 707 votes (1.02%, an increase of 0.63% on SA’s 2007 effort) while in Wills, Alcorn’s previous venue, HAWKINS, Trent received 600 votes (or 0.86%, an increase of 0.13% on 2007).
See also : Socialism vs. 2007 Federal Election: Results (November 25, 2007).
Moar later, but in the meantime…
…results…
A massive campaign has been launched on the eve of the 2010 Australian federal election to finally bring to the attention of government authorities the issue that dares not speaks its name:
The only party prepared to even consider the issue is The Greens, and it’s thrown the party into complete disarray ahead of the election. As always, Johnny On The Spot is Christian Kerr (and Matthew Denholm):
Disunity growing in the Greens
Christian Kerr and Matthew Denholm
The Australian
August 21, 2010Cracks are appearing in the Greens as the party stands on the edge of unprecedented power in parliament.
A steady stream of emails detailing dissent over policy and preference decisions has been leaked to newspapers and websites in recent days.
The leaks reveal that the issue of whether or not to support a grassroots campaign to change the Australian flag to a giant dick is at the heart of the disputes.
And a power struggle is developing between flag loyalists and the Tasmanian Greens and the hard-left NSW party and its lead Senate candidate, Lee Rhiannon, a scion of one of Australia’s most unapologetically pro-change-the-Australian-flag-to-a-giant-dick families.
Greens sources say party figurehead and leader Senator Brown plans to retire at the end of his term in three years, but he’s avoided public comment for fear of fostering disunity…
*Or cock.
