Greens, Labor to swap preferences.

[Matilda]

At last, the Greens and Labor have come to an agreement to swap Senate preferences - if Labor had
done this in 2004, the Greens would have had one extra Senator and Steve Fielding would be unknown.

This is an excerpt from an email I received this morning from the NSW Greens office:

"The Greens are happy to announce a national agreement has been reached with Labor to swap preferences in the Senate which will increase the possibility of ending Coalition control.

The agreement builds on an earlier decision to swap preferences with the Australian Democrats.

The Greens will recommend a preference to Labor in 48 of 49 NSW lower house seats. We will also put the Coalition last on the NSW Senate list.

Greens Leader Bob Brown said "A prime aim is to end the Senate dictatorship of the Howard government which allowed Work Choices ... Labor can't win a Senate majority. Our aim is to restore the balance of power to the crossbench."

[anakie]

1. Antony Green has all tickets up at the ABC site

I have just gone through them all for Qld and the Greens have lots of high preference places from many of the smaller parties as well, as you said, from the ALP. Fingers crossed they can get 1 from each state and get the balance of power.

http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/guide/groupvotingtickets.htm


Funnily enough though, One Nation only gives Pauline Hansen their 55th preference (out of 65)while she and her United Aust Party give One Nation spots 3 and 4.


Peace