{"id":165,"date":"2006-03-21T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2006-05-01T04:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T18:08:33","slug":"2006-trot-guide-update-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"2006 Trot Guide Update #3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Following John Tattersall<\/a>‘s ignominious defeat in the Victoria park by-election<\/a>, there’s more bad news for the Socialist Alliance<\/a>: on March 18 there was an election in South Australia, for the seat of Port Adelaide. At a time when disgust and rage with contemporary capitalism are profoundly felt and deeply rooted — and we are living through a period of many-sided struggle, conscious and unconscious, against the virulent disease that is the production-for-profit system — the SA contested it.<\/p>\n

Here are the results<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Port Adelaide
\nName \/\/ Party \/\/ Votes \/\/ % Swing
\n(Bold identifies the sitting MP)<\/p>\n

Anne McMenamin \/\/ GRN \/\/ 980 \/\/ 6.3 \/\/ +2.5
\nJames Troup \/\/ FFP \/\/ 838 \/\/ 5.4 \/\/ +5.4
\nKevin Foley \/\/ ALP \/\/ 10,027 \/\/ 64.5 \/\/ +6.7
\nAnna Micheel \/\/ LIB \/\/ 2,903 \/\/ 18.7 \/\/ -4.9
\nDarren Fairweather \/\/ ONP \/\/ 234 \/\/ 1.5
\nAmy Van Oosten \/\/ DEM \/\/ 369 \/\/ 2.4 \/\/ -3.8
\nJohn McGill \/\/ [SA] \/\/ 205 \/\/ 1.3 \/\/ +1.3
\n[Informal \/\/ 802 \/\/ 4.2]<\/p>\n

This could be considered a “bad” result. After all, for a socialist party to receive 29 votes less than a party on the far right isn’t exactly “good”… is it? Dunno, maybe March 18 was a time when disgust and rage with contemporary capitalism was only vaguely intuited, and the deeply rooted were in bed, fitfully sleeping through a period of many-sided struggle, almost always unconscious; dreaming, perhaps, of defeating the virulent disease that is the production-for-profit system… later.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah.<\/p>\n

There were also elections in Tasmania<\/a> over the weekend. Never ones to set the media ablaze<\/a>, the SA in Tasmania<\/a> battled it out with the elusive ‘Tasmania First Party’<\/a> and those-who-choose-to-dress-casually for last place. Here are the results from the two seats — Denison and Franklin — in which the SA stood candidates.<\/p>\n

Let’s see who won, shall we?<\/p>\n

Denison
\nParty \/\/ Votes \/\/ % Quotas \/\/ Swing
\nLabor Party \/\/ 25,665 \/\/ 47.4 \/\/ 2.90 \/\/ -3.6
\nLiberal Party \/\/ 14,333 \/\/ 26.4 \/\/ 1.50 \/\/ +3.4
\nGreens \/\/ 12,981 \/\/ 23.9 \/\/ 1.30 \/\/ -0.6
\nTasmania First \/\/ 283 \/\/ 0.5 \/\/ 0.00 \/\/ +0.5
\nSocialist Alliance \/\/ 216 \/\/ 0.4 \/\/ 0.00 \/\/ -0.3 [Linda Seaborn]
\nGroup F \/\/ 401 \/\/ 0.7 \/\/ 0.00 \/\/ +0.7
\nUngrouped \/\/ 437 \/\/ 0.8 \/\/ 0.00 \/\/ +0.8<\/p>\n

Franklin
\nParty \/\/ Votes \/\/ % Quotas \/\/ Swing
\nLabor Party \/\/ 26,794 \/\/ 47.2 \/\/ 2.90 \/\/ -4.5
\nLiberal Party \/\/ 17,858 \/\/ 31.4 \/\/ 1.90 \/\/ +7.8
\nGreens \/\/ 10,888 \/\/ 19.2 \/\/ 1.10 \/\/ -1.2
\nSocialist Alliance \/\/ 232 \/\/ 0.4 \/\/ 0.00 \/\/ +0.1 [Matthew Holloway]
\nUngrouped \/\/ 962 \/\/ 1.7 \/\/ 0.10 \/\/ +1.7<\/p>\n

Hmmm… not exactly a doubleplusgood result there either comrades.<\/p>\n

(I give it twelve more months, tops.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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