The provisional results for the 2008 Wodonga City Council elections are now available at the Victorian Electoral Commission website.
I polled 302 votes, the third lowest in the field of twenty. Dennis Black polled 344 votes, resulting in a Green primary of 646. This is an increase of 180 votes over our showing in 2005. This [...]

Voting officially closed at 6pm tonight. The computer count should be complete by 7:30 Sunday, and the official declaration of results will be 9:00am on Monday. I presume the results will be available on the VEC website on Sunday night.
I’ll update my Facebook status as soon as I know the result. Thanks to everyone for [...]

Well not quite, but the Border Mail has, two days in a row, published a letter from my fellow Greens candidate Dennis Black.
Only one letter seems to have made it to the Border Mail’s ever incomplete website, it addresses some of the climate change “skeptics” (ie delusionists) who have appeared on the Letter’s page recently.
The [...]

They have a 7.30 in the morning now?!
Tomorrow it’s off to the Chamber of Commerce candidates breakfast. I only get two minutes to speak, so I haven’t prepared anything spectacular. I might just mention the idea that greater democracy and action on climate change is good for business.
This will probably be the last act of [...]

Today the Stockagents held their final “Save the Saleyards” Rally in Woodland Grove. Naturally I was not invited to attend, I’m an evil Greenie who wants to avoid the City of Wodonga taking on new debt. I went down to High St anyway.
Leafleting a short distance from the protest gathering, I received the usual array [...]

Tonight saw the one and only candidates forum, organised by the Wodonga Ratepayers Association.
Maybe thirty members of the public joined half a dozen organisers and fourteen candidates to discuss the election. In my allotted five minutes I delivered this brief address:
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Dennis Black and I share a vision. We want to see [...]

Tomorrow night (Thursday the 13th) will see a public forum hosted by the Ratepayers Association, at the Tennis Centre from 6pm. There will be a brief presentation by each candidate before a question and answer session.
Perhaps you would like to go along and ask the tough questions about the issues this campaign has ignored. What [...]

Fellow council candidate Julie Emmins is attempting to organise a series of community meetings over the coming week.
Baranduda - 5.45pm, Tuesday, the main park.
Willow Park - 10.00am 5.45pm, Wednesday, presumably somewhere near the carpark off Pearce St.
Bonegilla - 5.45, Wednesday, the hall.
Over the coming week I’ll be on High St between 10.30am and 12.30pm, and [...]