{"id":458,"date":"2006-11-13T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2008-02-06T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T10:22:05","slug":"trot-guide-to-victorian-state-election-november-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Trot Guide to Victorian State election (November 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting times at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?page_id=336\">Trot Guide<\/a><\/strong>! <\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>) The <strong>DSP<\/strong>-dominated <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=165\">Socialist Alliance<\/a><\/strong> is fielding a grand total of four candidates this election: <em>Margarita Windisch<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vec.vic.gov.au\/State2006candidatesFootscrayDistrict.html\">Footscray<\/a>; <em>Vannessa Hearman<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vec.vic.gov.au\/State2006candidatesBrunswickDistrict.html\">Brunswick<\/a>; and <em>Sue Bull<\/em> and <em>Rowan Stewart<\/em> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vec.vic.gov.au\/State2006candidatesWesternVictoriaRegion.html\">Western Victoria<\/a> (Upper House) region. All four are members of the DSP. <strong>NB<\/strong>. In 1998, Hearman ran for the Victorian Senate on a joint ticket with Jo Williams; Williams got 2,264 votes, Hearman 30 | Sue Bull is a veteran campaigner: in 1993 she received 763 votes (01.1%) for the Federal seat of Prospect in NSW; in 1996, 1,508 votes (02.3%) for the Federal seat of Canberra in the ACT; and in 1998, 1,214 votes (01.3%) for the Federal seat of Fraser, also in the ACT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>) <strong>The Socialist Party<\/strong> is only half as good as the Socialist Alliance, and is therefore only (allegedly) standing two candidates: <em>Steve Jolly<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vec.vic.gov.au\/State2006candidatesRichmondDistrict.html\">Richmond<\/a> and <em>Andrew Calleja<\/em> in the Northern Metropolitan (Upper House) region. <strong>NB<\/strong>. Calleja does not appear to appear on the ballot&#8230; Jolly stood for the Federal seat of Melbourne in 2001, gaining 1,260 votes (01.5%); and in 2005, the State seat of Richmond, gaining 544 votes (02.0%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>) <em>Jorge Jorquera<\/em> (ex-DSP, es-<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=278\">MSN<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>DA<\/strong> \/\/ <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=431\">W&#038;CF<\/a><\/strong>) is standing for the seat of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vec.vic.gov.au\/State2006candidatesDerrimutDistrict.html\">Derrimut<\/a>. <strong>NB<\/strong>. In 1999, Jorquera stood for the seat of Melbourne and gained 1,986 votes (05.7%), coming third of three candidates; while in 1998, Jorquera contested the Federal seat of Gellibrand, receiving 963 votes (01.3%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>) The <strong>Socialist Equality Party<\/strong> also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2006\/nov2006\/vic-n01.shtml\">candidate<\/a>: <em>Will Marshall<\/em> for the Melbourne electorate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vec.vic.gov.au\/State2006candidatesBroadmeadowsDistrict.html\">Broadmeadows<\/a>. <strong>NB<\/strong>. In 1998, Will stood for the Victorian Senate alongside his comrade Sue Phillips. Phillips got 1,368 votes and Will&#8230; 24. Making a grand total of 0.0034%.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>And in good news for the fascist <strong>Australia First Party<\/strong>, its candidate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lga.sa.gov.au\/site\/page.cfm?u=239#e313\">local council elections<\/a> for the <strong>St Johns Wood Ward<\/strong> of <strong>Prospect<\/strong> in Adelaide, South Australia, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=424\">Bruce Preece<\/a><\/em>, obtained 341 votes this weekend, and appears to have <strong>won<\/strong> a seat on the local council. A tremendous boost in his and the AFP&#8217;s quest to help keep Australia White, one local council at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations church-going citizens of Adelaide! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/text\/articles\/2006\/11\/03\/1162340055938.html\">Two Wongs don&#8217;t make a White!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting times at Trot Guide! 1) The DSP-dominated Socialist Alliance is fielding a grand total of four candidates this election: Margarita Windisch in Footscray; Vannessa Hearman in Brunswick; and Sue Bull and Rowan Stewart in the Western Victoria (Upper House) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state","category-trot-guide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-7o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}