The Democraccy4sale.org website has been updated recently to reveal where the election funding for the 2004 Council election has come from, it makes for very interesting reading.
Lake Macquarie Council candidates had the dubious honour of coming in 5th largest amount of donations received at $204,712, just behind Wollongong with $278,591. Newcastle ranked 7th $186,769.
The Greens election funding for Lake Macquarie came from federal election funding returns, and from local grassroots fundraising events such as quiz nights, raffles, barbecues, a whale-watch cruise, etc, and donations by local individuals (mostly members).You can see the details at Clr Michaels Osborne's site, Newcastle Lord Mayoral and Ward 1 candidate
If you would like to see how the other candidates funded their campaign it’s well worth a look.
Previous council election funding returns show that the campaigns of some so-called local Independents were actually funded by vested interests, including donations from corporations such as Hardie Holdings and Rosecorp.For some reason this doesn't appear newsworthy in the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie media.
The Greens don’t accept donations from developers, corporations or any other organisations. Voters can see that no one is buying us, and we have nothing to hide about where our money comes from.
Showing posts with label candidate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label candidate. Show all posts
Monday, 8 September 2008
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Lead Candidates In Lake Macquarie
SUZANNE PRITCHARD
Mayoral and No.1 West Ward Candidate, Lake Macquarie City Council
Suzanne is an active community advocate and company director. She has lived in Carey Bay for 17 years, has raised three children and served as President of the Coal Point Progress Association for 12 years. She has degrees in Science and Communications and has developed her own company providing environmental education services to community groups and science shows to childcare centres.
“All our candidates recognise that the future will be very different as we adapt to climate change, and ar keen to play an active and positive role in shaping the response of a rapidly growing city.”
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HANNAH GISSANE:
No.1 North Ward candidate, Lake Macquarie City Council:
Hannah is The Greens’ youngest candidate in the Newcastle/Lake Macquarie area, and is running to highlight the needs of youth and to give them a voice. Hannah has grown up in Lake Macquarie, attending Lambton High and Hunter School of Performing Arts. She is currently studying Communications Law at the University of Newcastle, where she is involved in social justice issues as co-convenor of Newcastle University Student Association’s Women’s Collective.
"As a young person I believe advocating for and representing the youth of Lake Macquarie is crucial in stopping youth disillusionment with the political process.”
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PHILLIPA PARSONS
No.1 East Ward candidate, Lake Macquarie City Council:
Phillipa has a professional background and qualifications in business management and training. Currently completing a teaching degree, she has served as a NSW police officer, insurance investigator, and operations manager of a national company. Phillipa, who has lived in Lake Macquarie for 18 years, wants local action on climate change and unsustainable development in Lake Macquarie, and believes that more Greens on Council will provide more community-oriented leadership.
"The Greens will work towards ensuring development in Lake Macquarie is environmentally sustainable and serves the needs of the local community, not developers.”
Mayoral and No.1 West Ward Candidate, Lake Macquarie City Council
Suzanne is an active community advocate and company director. She has lived in Carey Bay for 17 years, has raised three children and served as President of the Coal Point Progress Association for 12 years. She has degrees in Science and Communications and has developed her own company providing environmental education services to community groups and science shows to childcare centres.
“All our candidates recognise that the future will be very different as we adapt to climate change, and ar keen to play an active and positive role in shaping the response of a rapidly growing city.”
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HANNAH GISSANE:
No.1 North Ward candidate, Lake Macquarie City Council:
Hannah is The Greens’ youngest candidate in the Newcastle/Lake Macquarie area, and is running to highlight the needs of youth and to give them a voice. Hannah has grown up in Lake Macquarie, attending Lambton High and Hunter School of Performing Arts. She is currently studying Communications Law at the University of Newcastle, where she is involved in social justice issues as co-convenor of Newcastle University Student Association’s Women’s Collective.
"As a young person I believe advocating for and representing the youth of Lake Macquarie is crucial in stopping youth disillusionment with the political process.”
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PHILLIPA PARSONS
No.1 East Ward candidate, Lake Macquarie City Council:
Phillipa has a professional background and qualifications in business management and training. Currently completing a teaching degree, she has served as a NSW police officer, insurance investigator, and operations manager of a national company. Phillipa, who has lived in Lake Macquarie for 18 years, wants local action on climate change and unsustainable development in Lake Macquarie, and believes that more Greens on Council will provide more community-oriented leadership.
"The Greens will work towards ensuring development in Lake Macquarie is environmentally sustainable and serves the needs of the local community, not developers.”
Monday, 26 February 2007
Cooranbong Gazette Candidate Profile
Why should the residents of Cooranbong consider me at the upcoming election?
The Greens are a party whose policies are underpinned by the principles of Social & Economic Justice, Grassroots Democracy, Ecological Sustainability and Peace, Nonviolence & Disarmament. This means that Greens think about and do politics differently.
Grassroots Democracy means that the Local group is the highest level of decision making because these are the people most in touch with their constituents. The Greens do not accept developer donations because this corrupts the democratic process. The Greens have moved a Private Members Bill to ban developer donations to political parties to make sure Government decisions are free from improper influence.
An example of the principle of social and economic justice can be seen in the Planning and Development policy which says the public interest must become the dominant consideration in all planning and development decisions. Obtaining approval for developments that are over sized, unsustainable and inappropriate has been made easier than ever under the current Government, while the ability of the community to resist such developments has been diminished. The Greens are working to reform the Land and Environment Court to protect the rights of the community.
Ecological sustainability emphasises the need to consider the long term implications of our everyday decisions upon the environment that sustains us. The Greens have policies on managing our water resources efficiently, looking towards renewable technologies to provide for our future energy needs and protecting our wild places for their inherent worth and the vast variety of life that exists in them. The Greens are committed to no new coal mines or coal infrastructure and transforming the electricity industry into a renewable energy industry that provides a job rich future and protects the environment.
The Greens might be a small political party but they are seen by many as the true opposition in the NSW Parliament. We are looking for a future beyond coal, not just for our communities but also for our children and humanity. We are committed to advancing an agenda of social and economic justice, environmental protection and democratic values.
The Greens are a party whose policies are underpinned by the principles of Social & Economic Justice, Grassroots Democracy, Ecological Sustainability and Peace, Nonviolence & Disarmament. This means that Greens think about and do politics differently.
Grassroots Democracy means that the Local group is the highest level of decision making because these are the people most in touch with their constituents. The Greens do not accept developer donations because this corrupts the democratic process. The Greens have moved a Private Members Bill to ban developer donations to political parties to make sure Government decisions are free from improper influence.
An example of the principle of social and economic justice can be seen in the Planning and Development policy which says the public interest must become the dominant consideration in all planning and development decisions. Obtaining approval for developments that are over sized, unsustainable and inappropriate has been made easier than ever under the current Government, while the ability of the community to resist such developments has been diminished. The Greens are working to reform the Land and Environment Court to protect the rights of the community.
Ecological sustainability emphasises the need to consider the long term implications of our everyday decisions upon the environment that sustains us. The Greens have policies on managing our water resources efficiently, looking towards renewable technologies to provide for our future energy needs and protecting our wild places for their inherent worth and the vast variety of life that exists in them. The Greens are committed to no new coal mines or coal infrastructure and transforming the electricity industry into a renewable energy industry that provides a job rich future and protects the environment.
The Greens might be a small political party but they are seen by many as the true opposition in the NSW Parliament. We are looking for a future beyond coal, not just for our communities but also for our children and humanity. We are committed to advancing an agenda of social and economic justice, environmental protection and democratic values.
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Confessions of a Candidate #1
Suzanne Kathleen Pritchard, 43, and I love Lake Macquarie. I swim and think in the Lake’s cooling waters and walk and wonder in the surrounding hills. The Lake Macquarie electorate is 1,062 km2 , and that’s a lot of lake and a fair few hills. There are also about 64,320 people, spread out in little patches of paradise dotted between the mountains and the sea. The officials call it provincial, it feels more like community.
I love my City of Lake Macquarie too, even though it has no city centre, and people drive past it on the way to the north coast and the wine country of the Hunter Valley. The City is unique, it is a bushland city with a mining-manufacturing history in a changing climate of technology and evidence that the world is changing too.
I’m just starting out on a rather interesting relationship with the State Electorate of Lake Macquarie, all new boundaries and needless to say, I’m excited. In every relationship it’s important to work through the issues and Lake Mac has its fair share. The Lake Mac electorate is big… and size makes a difference to how much bang you get for your buck when it comes to supplying infrastructure, whether it’s water or somewhere to walk, a local school or health services close to home.
It makes a difference when the electorate spans two Local Government Areas. In Wyong it takes in a large chunk of the catchment for the Central Coast’s water supply and in Lake Macquarie it includes the proposed sites for several new coal extraction initiatives and all of the Lake. The concerns about natural resources and their sustainable management is a major issue in the electorate.
I decided to be a candidate so I could offer the people of Lake Macquarie a choice. A choice to do things a little differently or to think of different ways to do the same things more sustainably. It’s the choice between letting Sydney politics drive the agenda for our region and ensuring that the local communities still have a say about the place they choose to call home.
Being a candidate is being able to present a different paradigm for people to ponder, a different way of thinking about the same old problems. While many solutions may have already been found, at present there is no political power to put them in place. The current political mindset is not making a difference in the timeframe that’s necessary to make a real difference to the final outcomes that our families and children will have to live with.
A Green voice in government is vital if different solutions are to be found. The core Greens ethics of grassroots democracy, economic justice & social equality, ecological sustainability and peace, non-violence & disarmament provide a different way of viewing our place in the world and what we do with it.
Over the next month or two I’ll be getting to know the electorate a little more personally and this blog is one way I hope to share this journey with you.
I love my City of Lake Macquarie too, even though it has no city centre, and people drive past it on the way to the north coast and the wine country of the Hunter Valley. The City is unique, it is a bushland city with a mining-manufacturing history in a changing climate of technology and evidence that the world is changing too.
I’m just starting out on a rather interesting relationship with the State Electorate of Lake Macquarie, all new boundaries and needless to say, I’m excited. In every relationship it’s important to work through the issues and Lake Mac has its fair share. The Lake Mac electorate is big… and size makes a difference to how much bang you get for your buck when it comes to supplying infrastructure, whether it’s water or somewhere to walk, a local school or health services close to home.
It makes a difference when the electorate spans two Local Government Areas. In Wyong it takes in a large chunk of the catchment for the Central Coast’s water supply and in Lake Macquarie it includes the proposed sites for several new coal extraction initiatives and all of the Lake. The concerns about natural resources and their sustainable management is a major issue in the electorate.
I decided to be a candidate so I could offer the people of Lake Macquarie a choice. A choice to do things a little differently or to think of different ways to do the same things more sustainably. It’s the choice between letting Sydney politics drive the agenda for our region and ensuring that the local communities still have a say about the place they choose to call home.
Being a candidate is being able to present a different paradigm for people to ponder, a different way of thinking about the same old problems. While many solutions may have already been found, at present there is no political power to put them in place. The current political mindset is not making a difference in the timeframe that’s necessary to make a real difference to the final outcomes that our families and children will have to live with.
A Green voice in government is vital if different solutions are to be found. The core Greens ethics of grassroots democracy, economic justice & social equality, ecological sustainability and peace, non-violence & disarmament provide a different way of viewing our place in the world and what we do with it.
Over the next month or two I’ll be getting to know the electorate a little more personally and this blog is one way I hope to share this journey with you.
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