Danby to fight against Greens in Inner City Melbourne at next Federal Election

Buoyed on by internal ALP analysis that indicates the greens are incapable of directing preferences away from the ALP to the Liberal Party, Michael Danby has decided to challenge the Greens in Melbourne Ports at the next Federal Election.

The Internal Party review undertaken by Alan Grffin has shown that the Greens ability to influence the allocation of Green preferences is less then 0.11% and that as a minor party they will not determine the result of the outcome of the election.

Danby, who is on a 5% margin, believes that support for the Greens will cost him votes in his inner city seat, and that more conservative voters, in particularly the Jewish community, will not vote for any party that is seen to be close to the Greens.

Being squeezed by both ends Danby has resolved that he will not seek a deal with the Greens in a preference swap. Danby has decided that Green voters will back him when it comes to second preferences allocations.

This bold and courageous move may see an end to the Greens chances of winning inner city seats in Victoria.

Danby's actions received the backing of the main faction players with the ALP at a meeting held today, setting the scene for the next Federal election in inner Melbourne. What impact this will have on the seat of Melbourne is unknown at this stage.

Analysis of the 2010 State election. where the Liberal Party decided not to direct preferences to the Greens ahead of the ALP ,was a decisive factor in the outcome of the State election. A decision that boosted ten support for the Liberal Party in ten last weeks of the campaign.

Danby is of the view that the Liberal Party will once again not direct preferences and that in any event in Greens will not run second in marginal seats within 5% as such neither the ALP or the Liberal Party preferences will be distributed.

Green vote in decline kept alive by Sex in Zone 1

In what has turned out to be an exciting and close finish to the State  Election, the Brumby Labor Government has come within a bees whisker of retaining government in what now look like a possibility of a hung parliament. An excellent result for a Government seeking a historic 4th Term.

Victorians were concerned about the possibility of the Greens holding the balance of power, so much so that the Green vote had dropped by 4-5%.  With just under 70% of the vote counted the Greens look like losing a seat in Western Metropolitan to the Liberal party and only held on to Southern Metropolitan with the help of the Sex-Party whose vote increased from 2% to 3%.(See ABC Analyst Antony Green's Calculator) When compared with the August senate poll.

The Greens vote held up only within the Zone 1 Inner City area but was down in comparison to the Victorian Australian Senate vote in August.

Green campaigners unaware of Green policy opposing Clearway in Prahran

In an extraordinary display of ignorance Green Campaigner Workers handing out How to vote cards in Prahran were misleading voters about Greens policy of Opposition to Clearway on Toorak Road and Malvern Roads.

Campaign Worker Don Kerr, who had taken off two weeks from work to help hand out for the Greens, when asked why the Greens opposed Clearways said they were not.

Shock horror!! It turns out that the Greens in Prahran electorate in fact do oppose the establishment of Clearways, but they have not been forthcoming with wanting to share this information with the concerned voter.

Public transport users are outrage as are local residents who have to put up with excessive traffic congestion and pollution. Many voters were dismayed to learn that the reason behind the Green's Prahran branches opposition to clearways is that they want traffic congestion as they are of the view that this will force people back onto public transport. Forget logic and the fact that Trams travelling down Toorak and Malvern Roads are excessively delayed in the road congestion due to the lack of clearways.

Public Transport users are angry as they were of the belief that the Greens were about wanting to improve access to public transport not oppose it.

Thousands of constituents that use public transport in Prahran should think twice about voting Green tomorrow knowing that they spend 15 minutes longer then necessary caught in traffic because of the Greens anti-public transport policy.


There appears to be a clear conflict of policy between the central branch policy and the local branch. The Prahran Greens have joined forces with the Liberal party and the Local Traders association who with the support of the Stonnington Council have engaged in a campaign of deceit and lies about clearways in the hope of attracting support and preferences for Liberal Candidate Clem Newton-Brown.

Both Clem and his mother were handing out How to vote cards all day outside the Prahran pre-polling booth as commuters trapped in the afternoon peak hour traffic were delayed further by Clem's flotilla of Mini Minor bill board towing advertisements.

Greens Bayside Development Threat

The Victorian Greens plan to force high density housing development along Melbourne's Bayside Southern Metropolitan costal regions in order to stop the urban sprawl.  Secret files show that the Cities of Albert Park, St Kilda. Brighton, Elwood and Sandringham will all come under a proposed state planning control allowing high density development along Melbourne's coastal region serviced by public transport.

The Greens public policy has failed to disclose this information as they are concerned that there could  be a backlash by the electorate if this information leaked. A Greens spokesperson, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, said that the Greens wanted to down play their urban planning policy in the lead up to the State election to be held this Saturday.

There is real concern that property prices will go through the roof as planning restrictions on high density development are lifted. All new developments would have to meet strict environmental standards in order to obtain planning exemption on height limits and density. The  Greens planning strategist said that high density development along the coastline was the only means of stopping Melbourne's urban sprawl and accommodating its expected population growth by 2010. The proposed Bayside developmentplanning mix will also accomodate public housing for low income residents. Heritage overlays would be lifted to faciliate new deveopments.

Greens unscientific Scare mongering about Bayside Armageddon proven to be a lie.

In the lead up to the 2006 State election the Greens campaigned in opposition to the dredging of the bay to allow shipping to Melbourne's ports.

The sacre campaign engaged by the greens has proved dot be false. The Bay has survived and there is no monumental environmental impact caused by the Bay dredging project.

Sen-Constable Patrick Stainthorpe and Constable Amanda Spittal
survey Sandringham beach. Pictures: JASON SAMMON.

Bay-side expert Dr. Graham Harris, who led a four-year study on the bay in the 1990s, has released his findings after examining the 50-chapter environmental effects statement on the Channel Deepening Project. Dr Harris said some of his initial fears were allayed by the environmental study, which he described as "not a bad document". He was no longer concerned about changes in tide, sea level or wave height or the risks of more exotic species invading.

"I am also of the opinion that the potential effects of oil spills, noise, lights at night, aesthetics, etc, are also not major and will be of short-term impact," said Dr Harris, the former head of CSIRO land and water division.

You can fool some of the people all the time., all of the people some of the time BUT you can not fool all of the people all the time.

The Greens in 2006 sought to capitalise on the Community fear that their beach would become a barren sea-scape. Not true. More lies.

Voters of Sandringham, Brighton and Port Phillip will think twice before they trust the Greens again. 

The Greens of course have tried to blame some of the tide shifting sands on Melbourne's beaches on the Bay Dredging, but environmental reviews have found that shifting sands are a normal occurrences due to tidal movements that have existed in the bay for centuries certinaly ever since records have been kept. There has been no adverse impact on te bay caused by the dreging of the entrance to the bay.

Now that the Greens scare mongering has been exposed the question is will voters of Melbourne's Bay-side communities be duped a second time into supporting the Greens.