Senator Gary Humphries changes his mind on ETS

Didn’t even notice the What Women Want Party, and I vote below the line! But we should have more parties named after Mel Gibson films. I look forward to the next election to see if they have been renamed “The Beaver”

Thanks for explaining that Fluges. We can ponder that point now.

I should have said “enough people were discouraged enough to NOT give Tucker their first vote …”. The Greens ticket looked like this:

ACT Group C – The Greens
Preferences Candidate Party
1 TUCKER Kerrie Greens
2 KIRSCHBAUM Elena Greens
3 DAVIDSON Emma What Women Want
4 MORRIS Shannon What Women Want
5 FULLAM-STONE Michael Climate Change Coalition
6 GEE Andrew M Climate Change Coalition
7 VOGT Norvan Australian Democrats
8 DAVID Anthony Australian Democrats
9 DENBOROUGH Michael Nuclear Disarmament Party
10 DENBOROUGH Erica Nuclear Disarmament Party
11 LUNDY Kate Labor Party
12 CONWAY Peter Labor Party
13 MILAT Lisa Liberty and Democracy Party
14 TEXTOR Chris Liberty and Democracy Party
15 MYERS Jacqui Liberal Party
16 HUMPHRIES Gary Liberal Party

What I meant was: the Greens put Labor well down on Tucker’s ‘How to Vote’ card and because of this enough people were discouraged enough to give Tucker their first vote that Humphries managed to squeeze in.

Gungahlin Al said :

“Is this more evidence of a swing to the coalition position?”

Quite the contrary I would have thought. Gary dropped a lot of hints previously about the secret discussion he had with Tony Abbott and his ‘package’, and now it’s amounted to nought.

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Please no talk about Abbott’s ‘package’, the speedos were bad enough

Any chance you could please spell out what you mean with numbers Fluges ?
I thought GH was elected by a whisker without the need for prefs.
Am I reading that wrong ?
I am puzzled what it is you think KT/Greens have done or not done when you say, “..if the ACT Greens had distributed their preferences properly.”
Thanks.

While he does have to toe the party line, this is rather pathetic. I hope that he’s privately embarrassed.

It is Humphries who swings in the breeze, not the executive of the Labor Party. We need someone who stands up for the ACT, not the party machine.

Humphries would have lost the last election if the ACT Greens had distributed their preferences properly. Kerry Tucker really blew it. If she had been elected, Fielding would be irrelevant.

Gary would have to be on the shakiest ground for an upset outcome wouldn’t he?

Especially since Barnaby Rubble’s wise words yesterday