{"id":31445,"date":"2012-07-07T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T06:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31445"},"modified":"2012-07-12T05:23:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T19:23:37","slug":"keine-macht-fur-niemand-2012-melbourne-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31445","title":{"rendered":"Keine Macht f\u00fcr Niemand : 2012 Melbourne By-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

The candidates for the July 21 by-election<\/a> for the lower house seat of Melbourne (in order of ballot preference) are:<\/p>\n

1. Berhan Ahmed (independent<\/a>); 2. Ashley Fenn (Family First); 3. Gerrit Schorel-Hlavka (MAY JUSTICE ALWAYS PREVAIL); 4. David Nolte<\/a> (self-described, centre-right, small ‘l’ liberal independent); 5. John Perkins (Secular Party of Australia); 6. Jennifer Kanis (Australian Labor Party); 7. David Collyer (Democrats); 8. Patrick O\u2019Connor<\/a> (Socialist Equality Party); 9. Michael Murphy (Democratic Labor Party); 10. Joseph Toscano (Anarchist Media Institute et al); 11. Stephen Mayne (independent); 12. Kate Borland (independent); 13. Adrian Whitehead (independent); 14. Fiona Patten (Sex Party); 15. Cathy Oke (Australian Greens); and 16. Maria Bengtsson (Australian Christians).<\/p>\n

Of the independents, Ahmed is a (former<\/a>) Greens member; Schorel-Hlavka is a man willing to think outside of the box<\/a>; Stephen Maybe is a well-known Man About Town<\/a>; Kate Borland is standing in order to draw attention to the parlous state of public housing (NB. Labor candidate and law-talking girl Jennifer Kanis sits on the Board of Housing Choices Australia<\/a>); while Adrian Whitehead<\/a> is a former Greens candidate (for the Federal seats of Chisholm in 1996 and Corangamite in 1998) and Maria Bengtsson is a Pastor at City West Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christians and Communists, Sexyists and Secularists.<\/p>\n