The battle of minor party and independent candidates

Greens candidate for Lindsay Kingsley Liu writes: Re. “Talk nerdy to me” (Friday). The Die is Cast except for the raft of the few. In the zone of post election, there will be over 1500 House of Representative and Senate candidates who will be spent emotionally and physically and without a cure. For some grand moments, one stands on the pedestal of exposed privilege, tastes the rare freedom of public dialogue, and spreads the lofty wings of political expression. Then it’s a return to working life, a trudge to the supermarket and sharing the news of new MP’s.

We know it’s just cannon fodder against the money machines that line the fences with an infinity of faces and bombardment into the TV time slots. We will bear the face of losers, having a taste unwinnable dashes down the stretch. Precious and brief memory of being a candidate stays inside forever and there is nothing close like it at all.

Spinning

Peter Matters writes: Re. “Election deciders: the spinners” (yesterday). The article on election winning techniques is very interesting and informative. It also says clearly, democracy, the reality of issues and the benefit of the Australian people is irrelevant in elections. It also explains why we, the electors, are not only bored to tears but also, I quote, think it is all about Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
We — and everybody else on Earth — are facing emergencies new in the history of Homo Sapiens and possibly lethal if not  mastered. Yet, pollution control — only one of a long list — ranks a mention by Labor and the Greens and none by the conservative Coalition. It is time electioneering was handled by people with courage and vision – not political time servers.