The NSW Electoral Commission finished counting for Lake Macquarie council yesterday.

We now have (for the first time) two Greens councillors on Lake Macquarie Council: Phillipa Parsons (East Ward) and Hannah Gissane (North Ward).

Unfortunately, Suzanne Pritchard (West Ward) missed out, however, she increased the Greens vote significantly to 13% putting it on a par with the rest of Lake Macquarie.

The election of Greens to Lake Macquarie Council is a historic moment for local Greens.

Congratulations to Phillipa and Hannah, and to all those Greens who assisted with the Lake Macquarie campaign.

“I’m not a great supporter of many environmental policies, but I’ll be voting Green on Saturday because the party’s got it right on the biggest issue in town.” Michael Duffy, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2008.
The link to Michael Duffy’s blog is http://blogs.smh.com.au/urbanjungle/2008/09/vote_green_for.html#comments
Question. Look also at the comments posted by readers and assess them on knowledgeablity, thoughtfulness and standard of expression. Do they tend to agree with Michael Duffy or not?

At the pond at the foreshore - on the harbourside of the old train sheds
This is a candidates’ media event with John Kaye.

Candidates meet at 11.00 am. The media is invited for 11.30 am.

Lord Mayoral candidate Michael Osborne says that Labor’s Newcastle council team is preferencing an electricity privatisation advocate, despite overwhelming opposition in both the general community and among Newcastle Labor voters to the Iemma/Costa power sell-off plan, according to The Greens Lord Mayoral candidate, Michael Osborne.

See Michael’s blog for the rest of the release

The Greens Lord Mayoral candidate for Newcastle, Cr Michael Osborne, today called on other groups and candidates in the Newcastle council election to publicly disclose the sources of their campaign funding before election day.

For more see http://michael-osborne.blogspot.com