At State Conference this weekend, there will be the following ballots.
If you have a vote, use it to make a difference. Vote for an Independent.
Rules Committee(9 to elect) |
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Fiona Seaton |
Left |
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Anthony D’Adam |
Left |
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Farid Ahmed |
Right |
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Robert Allen |
Right |
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Lewis Hamilton |
Right |
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James Mack |
Independent [1] |
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Janai Tabbernor |
Right |
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Josephine Hillard |
Right |
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Jan Burnswood |
Left |
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David McElrea |
Left |
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Amanda Fazio |
Right |
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Ben Aveling |
Independent [2] |
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Emma Murphy |
Right |
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Administrative Committee (18 to be elected by Rank and File members) |
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Bill Kritharas |
Right |
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Anne Charlton |
Right |
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Monika Wheeler |
Left |
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Trish Marinozzi |
Right |
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Ben Aveling |
Independent [1] |
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Gerry Ambroisine |
Right |
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Anthony D’Adam |
Left |
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Michael Forshaw |
Right |
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Jan Primrose |
Left |
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Chris Haviland |
Left |
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Melanie Dagg |
Right |
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Karen McKeown |
Left |
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Verity Firth |
Left |
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Sarah Conway |
Right |
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Georgia Kriz |
Left |
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Mary Ross |
Right |
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Sue West |
Right |
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Pam Ward |
Right |
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Leonie Wilbow |
Left |
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Jennifer Light |
Right |
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Paul Sekfy |
Left |
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Stephen Bali |
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Simonne Pengelly |
Left |
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Kirsten Andrews |
Right |
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President |
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Mark Lennon |
Right |
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Emma Maiden |
Left |
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(no Independent candidate) |
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Senior Vice President |
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Michelle Miran |
Left |
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Tara Moriarty |
Right |
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(no Independent candidate) |
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No vote required for any other committees.
They have all been ‘agreed’ between Left and Right.
Edit: Stephen Bali is Right, not Left. Apologies
Our ALP 
Like everything in the ALP now days I don’t have a vote
John McCutcheon
Kiama Branch
Ben
Great to get your messages from the Senior state in our federation.
I hope that you and your (happy few) comrades are having more success
with reform than we are in Victoria.
I am prompted to pen (well, finger) these words by the labels that you attach
– as we do – to the factions.
Left and Right no longer fit.
The ideological differences that once existed are gone.
The factions these days are simply collectives of people bound together essentially
by nothing more than mutual self-interest.
Accordingly they might called the Colour 1 and Colour 2 factions. But there are not
any 2 colours that are absent political implications.(try it)
So my suggestion, which I am trying, quietly, to promulgate in Victoria is that the
factions in future be referred to as the Wombats and the Koalas.
Or maybe Dingoes and Wolves.
fraternally Geoff
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 10:39 PM
The system at the moment is that one has to get elected as a delegate to conference to have a vote. Many branch members are unaligned i.e. have not signed up to the Left or Right (Centre Unity) factions. Why not put your hand up and push for being delegated to conference?