Moore calls for protest vote

Moore calls for protest vote

State election candidate and independent Sydney MP Lord Mayor Clover Moore has called on voters to lodge a protest vote against the major parties at Saturday’s NSW election.

“If you want to protest against Government inaction and the way the big parties conduct themselves — don’t vote for them. Look for candidates with a proven history in delivering,” Moore said.

“As an Independent, every single vote I cast has to be an informed vote based on the merits of the case, so you have to really think about how it affects the community you represent — every single vote is a conscience vote.

“That’s how democracy should work and it’s the difference between being an Independent looking after the interests of the community and being a member of a political party looking after vested interests”.

Moore warned that both the major parties had “draconian and outdated views when it comes to matters of equality for the GLBT community”.

She was fearful the election might deliver the balance of power in the Upper House to the Christian Democrats and Fishers and Shooters Party — and possibly even Pauline Hanson.

“Now more than ever we need strong leadership from Government but we also need independent champions to make sure the Government does have a plan and that we get the action we need,” Moore said.

“If any party has overwhelming control in both houses, the Government can do what it likes without challengeor through deals behind closed doors.”

Moore pointed to the 2010 passage of her Adoption Amendment (Same-Sex Couples) Bill allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children as couples and her Liquor Amendment (Small Bars and Restaurants) Bill in 2008 to allow small bars in Sydney as achievements she had made in office since being returned to her seat at the last state election in 2007.

Moore said as an independent she would take up the issues that the major parties didn’t want to know about, like climate change.

“Global warming is the biggest challenge we face, and yet the big parties are still arguing about what to do. I have a plan already in action in the City of Sydney, to reduce our emissions by 70 per cent by 2030, and similar actions can be used across the state,” Moore said.

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56 responses to “Moore calls for protest vote”

  1. “It’s time to bring honesty back into politics.” Hahahahahahahaha. Good luck finding that with the major parties

  2. #Icaruslanding

    Your statement “A vote for the liberals is a vote for the Christian Democrats and a vote for homophobia” is blatantly false and highly misleading.
    Either you are totally ignorant of the election process or are deliberately being dishonest.
    Either way, as it seems you are Clover Moore’s right hand man and official spokesperson, you have confirmed my decision not to vote for Clover Moore this time.
    It’s time to bring honesty back into politics.

  3. What a joke Clover Moore really is. She castigates the parties for arguing over a carbon tax. Well Clover, tell us whether you are in favour of or against a carbon tax. If Clover Moore really thinks global warming will be averted without a carbon tax, she is a bigger goon than she looks. The old woman must go.

  4. If you are afraid of the Christian Democrats holding the balance of power then don’t vote liberal

    A vote for the liberals is a vote for the Christian Democrats and a vote for homophobia

  5. Who is Clover Moore attempting to fool? Her rusted on supporters will believe anything she says, but thinking people like to examine the issues. Time for the old woman to go.

  6. If we are afraid of the Christian Democrats holding the balance of power why wouldnt you vote Labor in the upper house?

  7. I am lodging a protest vote this election. I am lodging a protest vote against dishonesty. I would like our politicians to be honest. I am not voting for Clover Moore. Her false claims, and the false claims of her avid supporters,that small bars resulted from her Bill, have caused me to change my vote and see Clover Moore in a different light. Her Bill lapsed. The government introduced its own legislation and the small bars that eventuated are vastly different to those proposed by her. The attempts by Clover Moore to spin it otherwise are shameful. Worse still is her failure to acknowledge the hard work of the grassroots community groups and its members which caused the government to act. I can’t wait to get to the polling booth to register my protest vote against dishonesty….and Clover Moore.

  8. Jane, once again you prove you are both stupis and illinformed. I Stated i work for Murdoch’s News LTD only for the purpose of indicating to your ignorant self that i work for a company which publishes The Daily Telegraph – a rag that is always critising and publishing misinformation about Clover- clearly you would be an avid reader lol. BTW i walk to work. You have indicated you are a fan of ‘narry ofarrel’ ….enough said lol!!!

  9. Sydney City Council is the ONLY council in Australia to have an LGBT Project Officer on paid staff. Need I say more.

  10. icaruslanding you are the idiot for I am better informed than you . You are obviously politically motivated . Keep working the spin for rupert murdoch you idiot , you see icaruslanding I can dash out slander too but I will not lower my standards to yours. Anyway icaruslanding do you drive to work or have you taken up clovers crusade and ride a bike to work. I bet you drive. So what if shes put bike lanes in the city, that hardly anyone uses they have created more congestion , clover rode a bycycle and fell over that was the end of it she is a hyppocryte. Anyway narry ofarrel hopefully will put an end to her madness.

  11. During the 1999 campaign Moore also received money from the hotel industry, including a large donation from the Australian Hotels Association. Although Moore has never denied taking money from hoteliers, she has classified them as among the “high risk” industries and in 2008 called for banning such donations.

    In Moore’s four election campaigns since 1999 she has continued to accept donations from property interests, and small contributions from hotels at least through the 2007 NSW state election. The public only learned of the Living Sydney money for her 2008 campaign during a public forum three days before the Sydney Council election.

    http://www.democracy4sale.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280:the-developer-cash-in-clovers-campaign&catid=19:articles&Itemid=7

    In August 2008, she voted against a proposal that City of Sydney candidates regularly disclose political donations on a council website.

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/developer-funds-will-go-into-trust-says-lord-mayor/2008/09/10/1220857637773.html

  12. ps. In answer to your question – no i don’t work for Clover Moore
    i am just one of her very appreciative constituents for the last 20 years – she is a fantastivc local member – which is why she keeps on getting reelected ! FYI i work for Rupurt Murdochs News LTD.

  13. Jane – you are obviously an idiot as made clear by your statement ‘does not clover still have double standards as she wants everyone else to ride bycycles while her staff drive cars ‘ Clover Moore by implementing bike lanes in the inner city is providing a green alternative for those who WANT to ride bicycles and for whom it is a viable alternative transport option – its not compulsory you fool !!!

  14. Tom ..so Clover is urging action on the consequences of the binge drinking epidemic in our culture – good on her !! Of course the liberal and Labor party won’t do anything about it – they recieve to much money in political donations from the hoteliers and the liquor industry .They obviously don’t care about the deaths and injuries on our streets resulting from drunken idiots drunken behaviour . No doubt Adrian Barltels liberal party glossy ads have been funded by
    the generous donations to the Liberal Party’s coffers .

  15. The prius vehicles icaruslanding is talking about only work on electricity for short distances the kilometers that these vehicles are being used by council staff still pollute the air with carbon emmission and icaruslanding you are wrong the fleet is not all prius vehicles and the reason I know is that my brother works as a ranger on the council and there propably more well informed than you icaruslanding . Anyway what hppened to using bycycles , does not clover still have double standards as she wants everyone else to ride bycycles while her staff drive cars . oh sorry icaruslanding they drive prius cars.

  16. An effective protest vote would be for the Aust Sex Party. At least they ‘get’ civil liberty issues. If you’ve been watching Clover closely over the years, you’d ‘get’ that she clearly doesn’t! Clover Moore is extremely selective of the issues she will support the community on. If not time for a change, then time to let the old cragg know she is losing favour with the queens, cos one-by-one, they’re waking up to her charade.

  17. Sydney’s lord mayor, Clover Moore, has urged the Premier, Kristina Keneally, not to bow to pressure from the hotels lobby and revoke a council planning proposal to crack down on the trading hours of pubs and clubs.

    In a letter obtained by the Herald, Cr Moore said she was concerned by reports the Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, was bowing to industry lobbying to order the council to withdraw proposed changes to the late-night Development Control Plan (DCP) which is aimed at curtailing alcohol-related violence.

    http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/lord-mayor-takes-club-hours-battle-to-keneally-20101109-17m2i.html

    well Clover being like this then it is a high possibility that she wants an 1am lock out. Sydney as an result wont be an 24 hour city anymore.

    Anyway with the reduced bar hours it will only encourage more binge drinking.

  18. Barry what a stupid and lame comment. Clover Moore’s bills got through Parliament – bills that for example made it illegal to vilify people based their homosexuality. Most recently Clover Moore’s bill finally made it legal for same sex couples to adopt children !

  19. None of Clover’s agenda can pass the Parliament unless one or both major parties support it so it is stupid to vote for independants as only the major parties can get legislation through. All they can do is make a lot of noise. And the article still does not tell us how Clover proposes we avoid a conservative upper house. What is her advice?

  20. Clover WILL be reelected this weekend and there is nothing you moaning losers can do about it LOL. The reason she keeps getting reelected is because she is an effective and hardworking local member. Are you arm chair critics saying electors are wrong ????

  21. Mallard – what a joke you are – the attack poodle for the Liberal in this election lol ! The liberals – the party who are preferencing Fred Nile’s Christian Democrats !!!!

  22. How more desperate can Clover get? If she is re-elected again after 23 years of doing nothing in State Parliament (all the ‘achievements’ she has trumpeted in this election relate to her ‘other job’ as Lord Mayor) she’ll be more irrelevant than ever.

  23. Clover must go – she is an ineffective MP, has been absent in Parliament 30% of the time she is supposed to be there representing us, has ignored the community on numerous occasions, has very limited understanding of environmental issues (despite her spin on this issue), continues to take undue credit for introducing small bars into Sydney, has ignored the issues of safety in Kings Cross and Oxford Street and behaves like an autocratic Queen of Sydney. Get rid of her!

  24. Typical Clover – show up at the end of a long campaign by musicians to change nsw liquor laws and then claim all the credit after the hard work was done. The only people who believe Clover changed the liquor laws for NSW weren’t part of the campaign at the time. Bike lanes yes, Same sex adoption – yes, small bars… not your plan Clover.

  25. So Clover falls back on the old protest vote line. It sounds desperate and shows why she will be irrelevant if re-elected to the Parliament. There is only one protest vote that matters and that is voting Liberal in protest of Labor’s mismanagement of our state. A vote for Clover is a wasted vote in fixing this state.

  26. Jane ..FFS educate yourself before posting misinformation . The City of Sydney is the first council to trial electric cars as part of its fleet , prius vehicles ( including the car used by the Lord Mayor ) make up most of the fleet.By the way this weekends election is a State election not a council election – you are both ignorant and confused.
    Tom.. more ignorant misinformation..Clover does not want to shut bars down ‘ early like 1am or something like that ‘ It was Clover Moore who got the small bars bill through Parliament which enabled all these great funky ‘ melbourne like ‘ small bars to spring up in Sydney. BTW alchol related violence IS reduced BY REDUCING TRADING HOURS!

  27. clovers got to go. After all she wants bars to close down early like 1am or something like that. Reducing bar trading hours is unworkable as it was demonstrated in Melboune experience and alchol related violence was not reduced from reduced trading hours.

  28. someone should ask clover why her council has one of the highest use of vehicles for both personal and private use making a mockery of her emission scheme. Fair enough you have to have garbage trucks and road maintenance trucks, however why does she have to have a large fleet of sedans just for her office staff to go home in. Clover is a practice what you preach hopefully you will be voted out.

  29. Go Clover !! Clover Moore as the State member for Sydney ( previously known as Bligh) has done more for the Gay and Lesbian Community than anyone else in the history of NSW. At the same time
    she has been a very effective and hardworking local member – this is why she will be re elected again on Saturday .