The place of nature? Electoral politics and the Tasmanian greens

People and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 52-61

  Crowley, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PARTY POLITICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 49249132573     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Dr Crowley is currently the Dean of Graduate Research at the University of Tasmania and the Graduate Coordinator of Public Policy in the School of Government.
2. P. R. Hay, and M. Haward, 'Comparative Green Politics: Beyond the European Context?', Political Studies, vol. 36, 1988, p. 435
3. The Tasmanian Greens were formally constituted in 1989 following the election of a record five Green Independents, including the previous two Green Independents who were already in parliament. Both the Green Independents and the Tasmanian Greens consider themselves the successors of the world's first green party the United Tasmania Group founded in 1972 and have subsequently joined the Australian Greens. See P. Walker, 'The United Tasmania Group: an analysis of die world's first green party', in P. Hay, R. Eckersley and G. Holloway (Eds), Environmental Politics in Australia and New Zealand, Occasional Paper 23, Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, 1989.
4. See M. Mackerras, 'The operation and significance of the Hare-Clark system', in M. Haward and J. Warden (Eds), An Australian Democrat: the Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark, Centre for Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, 1995.
5. See K. Crowley,'Strained relations: governing in minority in Tasmania', Australasian Parliamentary Review, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 2003, pp. 55-71.
6. See R. A. Herr, 'Reducing parliament and minority government in Tasmania: strange bedfellows make politics-badly', Australasian Parliamentary Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2005, pp. 130-143.
7. See K. Crowley, 'The rise and rise of the Tasmanian Greens: the state election 2002', Environmental Politics, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 233-240.
8. See P. R. Hay, 'Will the "Tasmanian Disease" spread to the mainland? The politics of land use conflict', Current Affairs Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 3, August, 1987, pp. 4-12.
9. See Hay and Haward, 1988, op. cit.
10. See Crowley, 'The rise and rise of the Tasmanian Greens', op. cit.
11. See C. Pybus and R. Flanagan (Eds), The Rest of the World is Watching: Tasmania & the Greens, Pan Macmillian, Sydney, 1990.
12. See F. Multer-Rommel, 'Explaining the electoral success of Green parties: a cross national analysis', Environmental Politics, vol. 7, no. 4, 1998, pp. 145-154.
13. See W. Rudig, 'Is government good for the Greens? Comparing the electoral effects of government participation in Western and East-Central Europe', European Journal of Political Research, vol, 45, Special Issue, 2006, pp. S127-S154.
14. See Crowley, 'The rise and rise of the Tasmanian Greens', op. cit.
15. See Herr, 2005, op. cit.
16. See R. A. Herr, 'Tasmania: January to June 2006', Australian Journal of Politics and History: Political Chronicles, vol. 52, no. 4, December, 2006, pp. 673-679.
17. See S. Bennett, Understanding State elections: South Australia and Tasmania 2006, Research Brief, No. 17. Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2005-06 .
18. See W. Crawford, 'Who'll rule the roost?', The Saturday Mercury, 21 January, 2006, p. 26.
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20. Unlike Australian federal laws covering federal elections, Tasmanian law does not require the disclosure of the sources of funding for election advertisements.
21. See M. Denholm, 'Greens king hit in grubbiest campaign', The Australian, 20 March 2006, p. 8,
22. and M. Denholm, 'Sect's attack ads billed to Libs', The Australian, 25 January, 2007, p 1.
23. See S. Neales, 'Greens see red over Liberals' leaflet', The Mercury, 17 February 2007, p. 2.
24. See N. Clark, 'Dirty tricks: Lennon lashes at "smears"', The Mercury, 20 February, 2006, p 1.
25. See The Mercury, 17 February 2006, p. 3.
26. The Mercury, 16 March 2006 p. 29
27. The Australian, 16 March 2006 p. 4
28. The Labor Government did not abide by the very popular community call to end old growth logging.
29. See Nealcs, 'Greens see red' op. cit.
30. and S. Neales, 'Unions shy on labor support: Green bid to woo workers', The Mercury, 23 February 2007, p. 7.
31. 2007 polling showed that the green vote has doubled in this region since the state election, as the independent pulp mill approval process has been overridden by the government, and the billion dollar project fast-tracked by both the state and fcdcral governments despite widespread community concern.
32. See W. Crawford, 'All done bar the cabinet', The Saturday Mercury, 25 March 2006, p. 28.