- May 2019
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This shows a gap in our campaign strategy. We should consider how to accommodate this.
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But if Labor cannot find a way to rebuild networks – real networks – within the communities it seeks to represent and reconnect and find ways to preselect candidates other than insiders, it faces years in the wilderness.
The Greens do not build networks in my experience other than within environmental groups. Sound critique.
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Labor’s derogatory use of terms like “the top end of town” (Bill Shorten) or “the leafy northern suburbs” (used by former NSW opposition leader Michael Daley) go over like a lead balloon because many voters in Sydney aspire to both these things.
Is this also a disconnect with a Union Narrative of 'workers being exploited' and with this new economy are we all not choosing to be our own boss? We choose how to exploit ourselves?
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Talented true believers from the “real world” only rise to be candidates in unwinnable seats, to act as placeholders for the ALP brand. They are people like Tim Murray, a finance executive who contested the seat of Wentworth, and Dean Harris, who runs his own market research agency, who stood in Warringah. There is no path for these people in the party.
Does this match the Greens as well? - Lets look at the priority seats in Victoria through LinkedIn
1) Janet Rice (Founding AGV member) was re-elected to the Senate leading an all women team. 2) Adam Bandt was returned to the seat of Melbourne.
Othewise,
3) Macnamara - Steph Hodgins-May was a Staffer for the Greens (amongst other roles) before being a candidate three times. Greens member 4) Wills - Adam Pullford - Former Staffer (amongst other roles) - presume a Greens member 5) Cooper - David Risstrom - Former employee in 2004 for 15 months.Presume a greens member but no other roles. 6) Kooyong - Julien Burnside - No prior Greens history.
Conclusion - there seems to be some match with staffers being given support but there are also other options being accepted.
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The Liberals pick people with deep roots in the community, or who have life experiences that voters in that electorate will relate to. Labor picks candidates who have served the party either as staffers or with unions, or who have a life-long Labor pedigree.
This seems right to me, but I am unsure. Does the same happen to the Greens? Is this a Greens truth as well?
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That army went to work in the community. They held kitchen table discussions (literally) with friends and acquaintances; they pushed messages out on their social media feeds. Their aim was to convince their networks that Steggall was the real deal, and provided a viable way for voters to vent their deep concern about climate change and the direction of the Liberal party.
Greens speak at the door, and have an awkward space shared at the front of someone's house. There is no engagement within the shared space of the resident. This turns it into a binary environment. A practice is to tell doorknockers not to enter the house. I did once, and was trapped admiring a retiree's collection of VicRail tea towels from the late 1950's lovingly collected by an illiterate trainways worker. That is not a reason to NOT enter a home to engage with the residents. There may be an insurance reason.
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