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Oct. 6th, 2004 09:21 pmThere was a big forestry rally in City Park today -- an anti-anti-logging rally -- because the Prime Minister was visiting, to announce *his* forest policy.
Last Federal election, it seemed to go:
Liberals: Here are our policies.
Labor: Our policies are the same, but slightly different
This time it is more like:
First party: Here is our policy about X
Other part: Here is our policy about X. It's better and we'll be spending more (but it'll cost less overall).
And meanwhile down in Bass...
Each state is divided into a electorate, there's 5 in Tas, morein the bigger states. Each electorate elects someone and the party with the most someones forms the government and the leader of that part becomes Prime Minister. Simple.
Now,last election, the Liberals got in (and I should clafiry here that Liberals aren't liberals) but all 5 Tasmania electorates returned Labor members (not bad for the "conservative" state, ha!) and apparently Bass (i.e right here) was very close. Which means it's of interest this time. To Labor, as a seat they want to hold onto to get into government, and to the Libs are one they can possibly win to their side.
The result, lots of attention (read: promises of money) and flying visits by the party big nobs. And Old Growth Logging in Tasmania is one of the Issues. Ad so, there was a big forestry rally in City Park today because the Prime Minister was visiting.
3 more days and it'll all be over.
Now, I'm going back to the scene I'm rewriting (I'm just good, yep).
Last Federal election, it seemed to go:
Liberals: Here are our policies.
Labor: Our policies are the same, but slightly different
This time it is more like:
First party: Here is our policy about X
Other part: Here is our policy about X. It's better and we'll be spending more (but it'll cost less overall).
And meanwhile down in Bass...
Each state is divided into a electorate, there's 5 in Tas, morein the bigger states. Each electorate elects someone and the party with the most someones forms the government and the leader of that part becomes Prime Minister. Simple.
Now,last election, the Liberals got in (and I should clafiry here that Liberals aren't liberals) but all 5 Tasmania electorates returned Labor members (not bad for the "conservative" state, ha!) and apparently Bass (i.e right here) was very close. Which means it's of interest this time. To Labor, as a seat they want to hold onto to get into government, and to the Libs are one they can possibly win to their side.
The result, lots of attention (read: promises of money) and flying visits by the party big nobs. And Old Growth Logging in Tasmania is one of the Issues. Ad so, there was a big forestry rally in City Park today because the Prime Minister was visiting.
3 more days and it'll all be over.
Now, I'm going back to the scene I'm rewriting (I'm just good, yep).
