Norvan ... the Maverick?

Georgetee, I agree – I can’t believe the amount energy and effort he spent on the Democrat’s last election. They where a dead duck long before last election with no hope of achieving anything, the quicker they die off the better I say the Greens will take their place. How the hell can you vote for a party that can’t even manage them selves never alone work out who they are and what they stand for? The Democrats have been a dead party since when Cheryl Kernot left them. It has been depressing to see a once proud party like the Democrats convulsing in self hate in the process of their death-throws. Norvan was an absolute idiot for running for them! many of us tried to persuade him to not run for them. He gave up a lot of money and screwed his job prospects and barely passed Uni, all for what? Apparently he felt that he was obligated to run for them for some strange reason. As far as the alliance goes I think that they have a 50/50 chance. Either way they certainly have the ALP shit sacred!

This guy is just another want to be like Zed, never achieved anything and who now wants a cushy job and look important. You have to do more than just look good in a suit to get elected. Democrats and now the CAP he must like loosing! You could see that the Democrats where going down the toilet a mile off, the CAP will go the same way!

Not really … it’s more that he is Hot than Cute! ;-}

emd said :

Being relatively young goes in his favour, I think. The Legislative Assembly is a bit lacking in younger people who understand what’s going on. Plus it’s nice to see a candidate turn up to give a speech with motorcycle helmet in hand 🙂

Better than a gay bike helmet and lycra pants anyway.

I think I remember a picture of him on a motorbike on TroyWilliams.com.au
But its also possible that the image of Brendan Nelson on a motorbike has just been mentally superimposed over all potential Liberal candidates.

Skidbladnir said :

Didn’t Astonishing Troy buzz around town on a motorbike?

Troy has a SAAB convertable.

Didn’t Astonishing Troy buzz around town on a motorbike?

Being relatively young goes in his favour, I think. The Legislative Assembly is a bit lacking in younger people who understand what’s going on. Plus it’s nice to see a candidate turn up to give a speech with motorcycle helmet in hand 🙂

two points georgetee

1. Just because Norvan is not on every community council and lobby group like the usual suspects tarting them selves around for media exposure does not mean that he has got no community profile! He has been volunteering with the Salvos in Canberra for many years; he helped start the street van and volunteers in the refuge. He has been part of local Scouts for 22years, got a queen scouts award and his BP award. His worked for local NGO’s like Volunteering ACT. He has been on the board of the local YMCA. besides just look how many people voted below the line for him last election.

2. Why would the other parties want to recruit him well…

Greens:
Norvan has long standing connection to the conservation movement in the ACT, being the nephew of the late Michael Hissink and having set up the ecoACTion website back in the late 90’s for the ACT Conservation Council he also worked on many eco-housing concepts like the ecovilla project with Corcon. Also during the 2007 Fed campaign he turned up to a number of Greens events even after the preferences debacle.

ALP:
He is one hell of a social activist, every thing from protesting against homelessness and gabling, right through to being on a number of Federal government boards such as Defence Support Council and the Digital Divide forum. Norvan also worked for Mary Porter MLA at Volunteering ACT for 3 years and helped her with her campaign in 2004.

Libs:
His grandfather, his father and Norvan all owned business for many years in Canberra. Every posting that he went on overseas has a small business development aspect to it such as working for the Chamber of commerce in Vanuatu or setting up sustainable microtourism projects in Costa Rica. Face it the guy is a small businessman man And everyone’s know that the Libs struggled to get a full ticket seeing that their talent like Troy Williams and Jackie Mayers didn’t put up their hands.

Sorry for the delay in responding whatsup. Yes I have a website, but this one…. http://cap.org.au/
is much more interesting reading.

I must agree with you georgetee. The old parties don’t recruit on the basis of talent, they tend to go for loyal political advisers, with a few party hacks to make up the numbers.
At any rate, it matters not a tinkers cuss what you or I think. It’ll be down to the people on Oct 17th eh.

I think he‘s Cute!

I read the riot act heaps but don’t post, I saw this on on Norvan and thought I would cos I know him. Norvan was my Team leader when I was working at Defence. To tell you the truth I never liked Norvan and I don’t think he liked me much either. We often had differences of opinion. Although, I do respect him enormously, this is because he was the kind of rare team leader who will go into bat for you even if he doesn’t like you. With Norvan you always knew where you stood. I was treated very poorly by the operations manager at the time. Norvan first tried to get the operations manager to change his mind but that was not going to happen. In the end he threatened to resign unless the situation was fixed, It got fixed shortly after. You can say what you like but the he defiantly gets outcomes.

I very much doubt it! Why the hell do you think a 30something nobody who has no community profile is going to be approached by the ALP or the Libs?

I find it interesting that the ALP, Libs and the Green have failed to recruit Norvan. I think that they would have tried seeing that all three of them have very little talent on their own tickets.

What other choice does this git have, the Democrats are dead so he had to pick someone. I would have sat this election out, the ALP is going to be returned with a smaller margin that’s all

I think that Norvan would make a capable parliamentarian, its just he was not the best candidate last election, he needed a lot more polish. However, it’s hard to look good when you are up against seasoned politicians, with over 10 years of experience, such as Gary Humphries, Kate Lundy and Kerrie Tucker. In saying that, it was marvelous to watch him trip them up every now and then. Like at the big Getup forum at ANU, having not being invited because the greens where running the show, where he asked a question from the audience that stumped all three candidates. Gary even backed Norvan up saying that it was a shame that we was not down on stage, he probably needed the company. He punched well above his weight but I think that he was rather naïve to think that the Greens would stick to the preference deal. Maybe he learned his lesion last time?

I’m not one of ’em. With no knowledge except what you the opening post says I would suggest that the current political parties are crap and this bloke is smart enough to stay away. More info please, if there is some other mob with half a brain that puts them ahead already. Mike Crowther… do you have a website ?

Perhaps because we (yes I am one of ’em)are a new and untested party. Have you looked at the operation of the ‘old’ parties lately?

Why would any kid with that much talent nail his colors to masts like theirs?