Candidates in your electorate: what do they believe?
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12 August 2010
Dear Friends
You can now check our website (http://www.fava.org.au/election-surveys/commonwealth/ ) for the latest results in our 2010 federal election survey.
2010 House of Representatives – Queensland
Click on “House of Representatives” then “QLD” then the name of your own electorate (they are listed in alphabetical order). You will find the names of all the candidates in your electorate listed in the order they will appear on your green ballot paper when you vote on Saturday 21 August.
2010 Senate – Queensland
Click on “Senate” then “QLD” then you will find a list of all 58 QLD Senate candidates listed in the order they will appear on your white ballot paper on 21 August.
Survey results
You will also find their answers to our ten questions relating to families faith and freedom. It has been a massive task for folk in our office to identify all 1198 candidates and send them our survey to find out their views. Responses are still coming in from Independents and small groups but we now know where all major parties stand.
Most Liberal National candidates support the official response from Liberal headquarters scoring 64 out of a possible 100. Liberals gained full marks for positive answers to questions on prayers in parliament traditional marriage school chaplains and free speech. They were marked down for negative or uncertain answers in areas including internet filtering fair childcare funding and drug policy.
All Labor candidates are required to support the official response to our survey sent to us from ALP headquarters scoring 58. Labor gained full marks for positive answers to questions on prayers in parliament traditional man-woman marriage online gambling and internet filtering of material such as child pornography. Labor was marked down for negative answers on drugs childcare funding foreign human rights interpretation and vilification laws which stifle free speech.
This election is the first time we have received an official response from the Greens who scored just 23. Their headquarters thanked us for our survey and said we could find the answers from policies on the Greens website. We checked and found they opposed almost everything we support!
Three parties scored full marks for all questions (100) – Family First the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) and the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).
Voting for the Senate
The white Queensland Senate ballot paper has 58 different names. You can vote for the party of your choice by putting a “1” in the box next to that party above the line. This means you accept all their preferences.
So you may want to choose the order of preferences yourself. To do this you must put a number in every square below the line. That is where our FamilyVoice survey can help. You can print out the pages with the names of all the Senate candidates and their scores work out your order of preferences then take the sheet with you to the polling booth to help you fill in the ballot paper. If you make a mistake simply ask the booth attendant to give you a new ballot paper.
Yours sincerely in Christ
David
Dr David Phillips
National President
FamilyVoice Australia: “A voice for family faith and freedom”
Phone: 1300 365 965 Email: office@fava.org.au Website: www.fava.org.au