Liberals preference Christian Democrats
The NSW Liberal Party will give its second preference to the Christian Democratic Party in the upper house in what the NSW Opposition leader Barry O’Farrell said was a party decision.
Liberal how-to-vote cards distributed yesterday to pre-polling booths instructed voters to preference the Christian Democrats second on the Upper House ballot paper.
This decision increases Upper House CDP candidate Paul Green’s chances of being elected and a Christian Democrats and Shooters and Fishers party controlled Legislative Assembly.
Labor campaign spokesman Luke Foley told media that O’Farrell “would do a deal with just about anyone to win control of the parliament”.
The conservative Christian party led by the Rev Fred Nile has consistently opposed GLBT rights in the parliament and is seeking to have the Mardi Gras parade put in a stadium and declared an 18 and over restricted event.
The Christian Democratic Party website states that the party is against marriage equality and same-sex adoption.
The Liberal Party’s decision comes on the heels of last week’s announcement that they would not preference former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson because of her policies.
The NSW state election is on March 26.
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(Member of the Queensland Inventor Association since 1993).
I will vote for the Christian Democrats and Liberals..because they stand for the actual REAL RIGHTS of all of us..not just the very selective few Gays/open border Greens and other minority arguments. We need real Government for real people. It is time that you, the minority have hijacked the media and all Education to push your agenda forward. Disregarding that the majority also have a viewpoint and which has worked extremely well for al of us in the past. You create dissidence by vilifying the right of others to have a voice and not downgrade them as you do..yet when tables are turned you scream and yell and shout EXTREME RIGHT,.well time has come when the masses must be heard for the sake of our whole entire country.
Nothing illustrates more clearly how lame Adrian Bartels campaign is and what a political amateur he his than this week’s glossy gay press ads. In these ‘ I’m supporting Adrian ads ‘ A motely crew of 15 or so fabulous nobodies (with the exception of Malcolm Turnbull- as if he was going to vote for Clover lol) are listed in a pathetic
attempt to influence our vote. This list included a stuufy old former senator from the Howard era , obsure fashion designers and one of their boyfriends and a drag queen FFS !
Well I am gay and I will vote Liberal and I dont care what you guys think. For me its public transport, the economy and the way NSW Labor has been going for the last few years that has influenced my decision. The Christian democratic party is no real threat and my life as an gay man wont change for the worse when the Libs win for sure.
Not everyone in the sydney area is gay, I have nothing against gay or lesbian but Clover Moore seems to be only benefiting from you because she knows does everyting to support the gay population.
Explain the UN-NEEDED bike paths all over Sydney, what a waste of taxpayers money!
The only reason it never looks like the Liberal party have accomplished anything is because they are trying to fix all the mistakes the Labour party created!
Take Victoria Street, Potts Point for example – backpacker heaven, and what has Clover Moore done? Absolutely nothing……….except maybe consider putting a bike path in there too. Shes a JOKE!!
Clover Moore has done more for our community than all the liberal and labor members combinied (in government or not )!!! A poor attempt by John to spin in the liberals favour lol . BTW what self respecting gay or lesbian voter woulsd vote for a party that is preferencing Fred Niles Christian Democrats ???
The Liberals are certain to win government on Saturday. The gay community can either have our man Adrian Bartels on the inside influencing policy or our woman Clover Moore on the outside making a lot of noise but unable to change government policy. We should support gay candidates in both the Liberal and the Labor parties, as well as gay-friendly policy pushers in both major parties, but we should act strategically. If we believe that Barry O’Farrell will win government in a landslide, we would be foolish to try to stay pure and take potshots from the outside. Clover Moore achieved a lot for us when the numbers in the parliament were much tighter but she won’t be able to wield any influence on our behalf for the next four years. In contrast, Adrian Bartels will be able to force the Liberal government to hold its conservative wing in check.
Gay voters have rocks in their heads in they vote for Adrian Bartels, Liberal Party candidate for the Seat of Sydney or Bruce Notley-Smith, Coogee candidate, after reading in recent media* the Liberal Party is giving their preferences to Rev Fred Nile and his gospel of homophobic hate.
Bruce Notley-Smith’s claim [see email above] that his Seat of Coogee is smoehow exempting itself from this Nile nexus shows a loose inventiveness with the truth. Where’s the evidence for his claim?
In fact, it’s a Liberal state party decision covering the whole party asking voters to direct ther preferences to Nile [see article below]: Coogee is not a foreign country, Bruce.
Jake McPherson
43 Elizabeth Bay Road
Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011
* O’Farrell behind preferences flowing to Nile
Sean Nicholls. Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, N.S.W.: Mar 15, 2011. pg. 4
THE state Opposition Leader, Barry O’Farrell, has been forced to defend the Liberal Party’s decision to direct preferences to the Christian Democratic Party in the upper house only a week after ruling out preferencing former One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, because of her policies.
As flagged by Mr O’Farrell on Friday, pre-poll electoral material prepared by the Liberals instructs voters to direct preferences to key independents in the lower house.
But it also directs voters to place the Christian Democratic Party as its second preference on the upper house ballot.
The Christian Democratic Party, led by its upper house MP, Fred Nile, is standing on a platform of “No Islamisation of Australia”.
The decision by the Liberals increases the likelihood that the CDP’s lead upper house candidate, Paul Green, will be elected.
Labor’s campaign spokesman, Luke Foley, said Mr O’Farrell “would do a deal with just about anyone to win control of the Parliament”.
Mr O’Farrell said it was “a party decision”.
Credit: Sean Nicholls STATE POLITICAL EDITOR
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Hi there,
In Coogee, no preferences are being directed to anybody, either in the Upper or Lower Houses.
Bartels tries his hardest to excuse the unspeakable betrayal of our community by the Libs giving their upper house preferences to the homophobic Christian Democrats. The Coalition talks one way and acts another. How any self respecting gay or lesbian could ever vote for that mob is beyond me.
Adrian Bartels who was it that most recently introduced a bill to allow same sex couples to adopt children in NSW – was it a liberal member ? was it a labor member? No it was Clover Moore !! Continuing
her impressive record of delivering civil rights for the gay and lesbian community! This is a State Election Adrian , banging on about council issues is best left to your poodle attack dog Shane Mallard ! As a State member no one is more impressive or hard working than Clover Moore – this is widely acknowledged even by
her political opponents.
I acknowledge that before Clover Moore became the Lord Mayor she used her position in Parliament to represent our community. I acknowledge that Clover was an early supporter of the gay and lesbian community.
But elections are about what people are going to do in the future. They are not victory laps for deeds long past. I am yet to hear from Clover a single thing that she is going to do in the next term of Parliament. All I have heard from the numerous CITY OF SYDNEY propaganda over the last few months is about Clover wanting to wake up the City she has choked to death, putting out candy-striped deck chairs, giving away free plants, and collaring the police for a series of free (that is, paid by us the rate payers) BBQs around her state seat in the days leading up to the STATE election.
So yes, I used to respect Clover, but now realise that she will do whatever it takes, use whatever public resources she can get her hands on, to maintain her iron grip on power.
Adrian, are you promising that Liberal how-to-vote cards in Sydney will NOT be recommending a preference to the bigots in the upper house? In how many other seats in NSW will Liberals and Nationals NOT be recommending preferences to Nile’s mob? There are 93 seats in total. One out of 93 is not doing much good.
Adrian Bartels people in glass houses should not throw stones – it is you who needs to show repect – repect to the woman who has done more than any individual in Australia to advance the rights of gay and lesbian people , the woman you are running against in the State election – Clover Moore MP. Clover Moore was supporting our community , taking the blows for us in Parliament from the bigots in your party and marching with us in our parade when you were still in short pants in primary school.
The State Leader, Barry O’Farrell, did put a message of support in the Mardi Gras guide.
I respect the fact that you do not like aspects of the Liberal Party. Some people like to have things that they can complain about.
But when I see things that I do not like and that I want to change, I get in there and try to change them. So far we have been able to secure the future of Mardi Gras, and I’m not even elected.
I object to any person judging another, whether from the left or from the right. And so I object to you judging and insulting any gay or lesbian person that votes for a Liberal. Some people believe that the economy, transport, health, education, and honesty in government are important too. And I am proud of the good work that good people in all parties have done to progress the level of debate in this country beyond the name calling and insults that you seem to prefer.
Adrian Bartels insisted the Libs refuse to preference Nile’s Christian Democrats in the seat of Sydney.
What about Bruce Notley Smith? What is he doing in the seat of Coogee?
Clearly a vote for The Liberal Party is also a vote for the homophobic Christian Democrats. Same old liberal Party ( just different spin )! Bartels is dreaming if he thinks any self respecting gay or lesbian voter in the seat of Sydney is going to vote for a party who preference The Christian Democrats , whose federal leader is ‘ threatened by Gays ‘and who refused to give a message of support to our Gay and Lesbian Mardi gras
@ Adrian Bartels. Your reponse to Sydneysider was not up when I posted my last statement. Good for you for standing up to your party to retain your personal integrity. I am duly impressed.
Thank you Sydneysider for asking your question.
I do not support preferencing the CDP. In the seat of Sydney the Liberal Party will NOT BE PREFERENCING THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS in either the Assembly or the Council.
This decision not to preference the Christian Democrats in Sydney was something I was able to demand. And I was more than happy to forfeit any preference flow from the CDP to me.
So, to be clear, if you vote 1 Liberal in either house in Sydney your vote will only go to the Coalition and nowhere else.
I am stoked that the Liberal party are finally standing up for values! Good on you Barry!
What does Adrian Bartels, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Sydney, think of this preference deal by his very own party? Does he support it or does he oppose it?
Are we surprised? You’d have to be pretty naive not to know the state Liberals are manipulated by the CDP behind the scenes.
One week they’re in the parade claiming to be queer-friendly; the next week they’re recommending preferences to a party obsessed with a belief that the whole world can be forced into heterosexuality. Which of the two faces of the Liberals do you believe?
Your resignation is needed Barry O’Farrell.
You are a disgrace to the Liberal Party, and all good politicians who value Civil Rights.
You support the local Taliban. For how else do you describe a party that calls for all in society to convert to their twisted religious beliefs? A party that calls you Evil if you do not follow them? A party that calls for 10,000 God Soldiers to defeat homosexuals?
Tell us Barry what deals have you done with our lives?
The Liberal party will say all the right things about supporting LGBTIQ rights; but now when they don’t actually take action, or in fact take negative action, they will use the Christian Democrats as an excuse. I have never really trusted conservative parties in respect of human rights issues.
By cuddling up to the Christian Democrats, the NSW Liberals have made a blatantly opportunistic move – to the political left.