Senator Andrew Bartlett
Sunday, September 19, 2004
 
The last few days have covered the aspect of elections campaigns I like the least, which is the preference deals.

As seems to happen every election, Bob Brown and the Greens do a whole range of preference deals with a whole range of people whilst attacking the Democrats about preferences.

Few things irritate me more. It happens every election, as predictable as the sunrise and it's happening again.

There's so much I could say, but suffice to say that the Greens got rid of the Democrats' Vicki Bourne from the Senate in NSW by, among other things, preferencing an Abolish Child Support candidate ahead of the Democrats.

We all do preference deals of course, the Democrats included, but the hypocrisy of the Greens pretending that they are somehow different always leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

It has always been the case that the party who have most consistently attacked the Democrats has been the Greens, so I don't know why it still irritates me - I should have got used to by now.

posted by Andrew Bartlett @ Sunday, September 19, 2004
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