RiotACT Sim Challenge Round Nine - James Higgins, Greens for Ginninderra

jamesforginninderra said :

So then I started working for CPSU, joined The Greens, graduated university and started trying to approach politics like an adult.

Any luck?

Yes finally one I can get to and with money in the back pocket as well. Gym shower drinks heckling……sweet

So basically it was one of those ‘snatching disaster from the jaws of victory’ moments? You would probably never believe this, but even I, myself, have these incidents from time to time ….

Fun times. Not the best moment in my political history…

I think your analysis of the interview and the event are pretty much correct. Following the “incident” and the “interview”, I actually dropped out of political activity for a year – retreated into my shell as it were. It was only through getting involved in the Your Rights At Work campaign that I actually started getting interested in politics again.

So then I started working for CPSU, joined The Greens, graduated university and started trying to approach politics like an adult.

**Shameless plug: Everyone should come and see what happens when I’m left in charge of a city – even if it is a computer game.

James Higgins
Greens Candidate for Ginninderra

I’m just surprised that Passy’s not standing. He has such a way with people!

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/notes/mp3s/silencetony.mp3

James was a bit ‘liberal’ with the truth as it were. Far from the majority joining Socialist Alternative in heckling Abbott, pretty much everyone there by the end of it were heckling Socialist Alternative.

I am a Liberal Student however I absolutely did not agree with Abbott’s view on RU486. All Socialist Alternative did was shut down what would have been an open and informative debate, and completely alienated everyone there.

I’ve actually had a fairly reasonable conversation with James one on one though. We just have completely different conceptions of the world.

When militant lefties get a bit older, they go to the Greens.
Then, when they marry and have kids, they’ll go to ALP.
And when they have grandkids, it’ll be the Libs.

OH GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THAT! It was a true classic.

you forgot to mention the terrific interview he gave triple j’s hack a few years back jakez….. I’ve heard it was certainly something

WHAT? My favourite Socialist Alternative hardcore protest creating, rabble rousing, loudspeaker abusing, former education officer of the ANU Students Association, has sold out and thrown in his lot with the greens?

I’m a little heartbroken.

Then again I can’t complain, I am a sucker shill for the Liberals.