election tracker is a youth-run site that follows the Australian federal election. It’s been around since 2004. It’s great. Go and check it out. It’s full of stories from young Aussies that care about politics and that write about everything from why their mates don’t care to why they vote the way they do. The [...]

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Watching one of the Liberal party attack ads, the premise bothered Ellice, Treffyn and myself. As we sat in the office, we asked ourselves, “Is the economy central to everything?”. We decided to remix the ad. Here’s the original Liberal Party ad: Download And here’s our environmental twist: Download So by remaking the video with [...]

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Here are some possible section headers for the Election Cheat Sheet… I found the keywords by visiting each party’s policy section… (ALP, Family First, Greens, Liberal, Nationals) Sure this would be way too many sections, but I thought it would be a good starting point. If you think there is a section header missing, post [...]

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The idea of an election cheat sheet is to get a broad overview of the various political parties (both major and minor) on a comparison table. Ideally the cheat sheet will be together at least two weeks out from the election. The information required could be sourced from: hansard official party documents and announcements quotes [...]

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In the spirit of the much broader Election Cheat Sheets the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have posted their federal election environmental scorecard. According to the ACF: The scores are based on an analysis of party policy commitments against ACF’s National Agenda for a Sustainable Australia. For further information about ACF’s Election Scorecard, please refer to [...]

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