Letter

In response to What just happened to the Greens?

Dodgy election deals

More needs to be exposed about these three major election scandals that were, by design, allegedly targeted to deliberately unseat the Greens and Independents and narrow our collective voice to parliament:

  • The redrawing of electoral boundaries and abolishing of an independent seat for MP Kylea Tink.
  • The deceptive preference deals made between Labor and Liberals to pool their votes to unseat Independent and Green candidates.
  • The doubling of election funding for major parties and virtually nothing for the other minor candidates.

These were strategies deliberately and deployed to concentrate power in one of the two major parties at the expense of independent voices. It needs to be exposed.

The Democrats used to have a saying, “Keep the bastards honest”. We need more voices in Parliament in order to do that. A concentration of power in one sector is power for power’s sake, it does not represent the wider voice of the people. Remind you of anyone else on the world stage?

— Alyssa Aleksanian from Hazelbrook