Article item posted on Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 8:44 pm
Last week the Familes against Climate Change hosted The “Climate Change Candidate Debates” for the Higgins by-election candidates, a highlight of recent elections. Unsurprisingly, Liberal Party candidate Kelly O’Dwyer was a no-show, despite repeated offers to set a date that suited her.
Rather than give a blow by blow account of the evening, read this by Paul Kavanagh, lifted directly from The Tally Room, an authoritative high-level psephology site:
“Extraordinary scene at the Climate Change candidates forum in Glen Iris last night (Nov 18).
Dr Hamilton was unimpressive. His disconnection with the audience and, it seemed, with the nitty-gritty of climate change politics itself, reached its low point when he insisted that he had never heared of the Climate Change Coalition, much less why they favoured the Democrats in 2007.
At least he attended this rare candidates event, unlike the Liberal candidate who wasn’t available, even though organisers offered to schedule the event to suit her.
David Collyer of the Democrats was the outstanding candidate on the platform. His talk and response to audience questioning showed concern about climate change and he presented the Democrats practical measures to address it. He was annimated when condemning the negotiated exemption for the agriculture industry.
The Sex Party’s Fiona Patten continued to impress, acknowledging her limitations of policy details.
While the DLP did not attend, One Nation participated with humour. Dr Toscano was entertaining and suitably radical for an anarchist.
Independents took policy positions ranging from climate change sceptics to … I was not really sure what.
Paul Kavanagh”
Thanks Paul!
And the Monash Journal agreed:
Heat on candidates to tackle some big issues
A review of the evening by the Higgins local press can be read here:
“David Collyer is currently contesting the Higgins by election for the Australian Democrats against Clive Hamilton for The Greens and Kelly O’Dwyer for the Liberal Party,”
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