Election Wrap - 28 September

Bob Brown seems to be playing in ACT politics a bit lately – he’s also putting up a bill in the Senate to enforce a flight curfew on Canberra Airport.

The Canberra Times is holding three forums on the election.

The first is the two “independents” Pangallo and Mulcahy. The second is with the Labor and Liberal Deputy leaders and the third with Stanhope and Seselja.

The Greens are not there at all, although they have one member (unlike Pangallo, or Community Action, and Mulcahy is only there as a former Lib). The Greens could well win another seat in this election and in any event may hold the balance of power.

Why aren’t the Grren invited to the CT election forums give they are clearly the third force in ACT politics? If Pangallo or Mulcahy get elected I’d think about walking naked through the Fyshwick Pravda.

As I’ve said a number of times on this site already, a raft of initiatives to encourage commuter car pooling, combined with changes to the structure of parking fees in the town centres, would be an extremely cost-effective environmental initiative. A car with two people in it generates about the same carbon output as if those people took public transport. IMHO, car pooling makes more sense than spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new infrastructure, but it will take a change in people’s attitides, and incentives, to make it work.

Strange but true… The Kangaroo Cull protesters brought up the issues about the contaminated land months ago:

http://www.canberravotes.com/2008/05/kangaroo-cull-protesters-at-the-lawson-former-naval-communications-base-21-may-2008-video/

See what Bernard Brennan had to see regarding this matter at 6min 20sec onwards within the video.