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By now you will have received your ballot paper for the Darebin Council Elections. However with over 15 candidates in each ward, many of them unknowns, some of them ‘dummy’ candidates, how can voters choose who to support? We believe actions speak louder than words. Our independent how-to-vote recommendations are based on the actions of candidates not just their 150 word statement – click the pictures below to review our analysis!
As you will have read in our previous newlsetter, DarebinCAN has worked as part of the Darebin Community Network to send questionnaires to candidates and to collate their responses into a scorecard on views and action on:
These scorecards were sent to you in our last newlsetter. Thanks to our willing letterboxinger’s this has gone to 22,000 households in Darebin.
Here below are the candidates we listed on the scorecards for Rucker and Cazaly wards – and we have now added suggestions about how to vote.
Don’t forget to fill in your voting paper asap to make sure it is returned in time to count by October 26.
PLEASE SEND THE SCORECARDS ON TO FRIENDS AND CONTACTS YOU THINK MIGHT VALUE THESE VOTING SUGGESTIONS.
As you probably know there have been some very troubling recent times in Darebin Council with regard to climate change, development, accountability and responsibility.
In this context the Darebin Community Network was formed by several local community groups to help the community make informed decisions about their vote in the upcoming elections.
DCAN has been an active member and we hope you will consider climate change a key factor in your vote.
Candidates have been sent a questionnaire on their attitudes and active history on climate change, appropriate development, accountability and responsiveness.
Here are the resulting scorecards for Rucker Ward and Cazaly Ward (individual responses are listed below).
More details can be found on the website of Darebin Community Network.
Click the link’s below to see the individual responses of each candidate. Note: only a handful of candidates responded so this is an excellent test of finding the real candidates and the dummy ones.
CAN YOU HELP PLEASE TO LETTERBOX THE LEAFLETS – some time between Saturday 6th and Wednesday 10th. Postal voting starts on October 10.
Please email DarebinCAN@gmail.com now if you can help, letting us know how many hours you can do.
We would like you to pick up the leaflets about noon tomorrow (Saturday 6th) from 12 Auburn Grove Northcote – so please let us know if this time is not possible so other arrangements can be made. We would be very grateful – but so will the residents of Darebin overwhelmed with candidates!
Hi DCAN members – get on that bike and get riding to work, and to help you along the way there’s a free organic coffee and pancake to get that energy into those pumping legs. Save the environment, have pancakes – sounds good to me!
Help letterbox for DCAN about the Darebin Council elections this weekend please!
As you probably know there have been some very troubling recent times in Darebin Council with regard to climate change, development, accountability and responsibility.
In this context the Darebin Community Network was formed by several local community groups to help the community make informed decisions about their vote in the upcoming elections.
DCAN has been an active member.
Candidates have been sent a questionnaire on their attitudes and active history on climate change, appropriate development, accountability and responsiveness.
Their response to the questionaires have been collated in to a printed guide for voters – and this needs to be letterboxed to voters in Rucker and Kazaly Wards – this weekend.
The leaflet can be viewed at Darebin Community Network on Friday
CAN YOU HELP PLEASE TO LETTERBOX THE LEAFLET — THIS WEEKEND – before postal voting starts on October 10.
Please email DarebinCAN@gmail.com if you can help with a couple of hours or more any time between Saturday and Tuesday. Pick them up from Northcote or we can deliver to you.
Hope you will be part of this month of action!
Jane, Carol, Beck, John, Keith, Adrian, Craig and Tim
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHCOTE LEADER: For story click here
TURNING THE TITANIC
a radio play and Public Forum
Don’t miss the performance of this allegory of the current climate change debate asking the question: “Why do we find it so difficult to accept the findings of climate science and respond to the challenge of global warming?” Join with us, as we turn back the clock one hundred years to imagine ourselves on the Titanic maiden voyage and see how the history reflects our current situation.
Public Forum
Guest facilitators: Dr Graeme Pearman, former Chief of Atmospheric research CSIRO
Sue Pratt, from Psychology for a Safe Climate
7.30pm, Thursday September 6
at Northcote Town Hall, Studio 1,189 High St Northcote
Entry by donation
Written and Produced by A GRAND STAND for the Environment Inc.
Performed for DAREBIN CLIMATE ACTION NOW
Radio 3CR interviews the producer and panel
LISTEN to Turning the Titanic 3CR 855 at 5pm tonight , Monday 3 September, as part of BEYOND ZERO RADIO SHOW
Climate Scientist Dr Graeme Pearman, will talk about his experience at the CSIRO . He was constrained from telling the truth about climate change which clashed with the short term profits of our business model. Are our 2012 scientists like the 1912 crew on the Titanic? Dr Pearman will be present at the performance of “Turning the Titanic” to answer scientific questions.
Psychologist Sue Pratt talks to us about helping audiences face their fears and reframe the climate crisis. We need to tell the truth about how serious the situation is and then grasp the fact that we have the solutions in our hands.
To all DCAN members – please come along to this stimulating, moving and thought provoking night. Please also let others know about this event. Turning the Titanic will be presented by:
Details:
Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard has just created a new online video called the “Story of Change: Why citizens (not shoppers) hold the key to a better world.”
She says, “Look back at successful movements – civil rights, anti-apartheid, the early environmental victories – and you’ll see that three things are needed to make change at the scale we need today:
1. First, we need a Big Idea of how things could be better – a morally compelling, ecologically sustainable and socially just idea that will not just make things a little better for a few, but a lot better for everyone.
2. Second, we need a commitment to work together.
3. Finally, we need all of us who share that Big Idea to get active.”
Here’s Annie’s blog about the video:
http://www.storyofstuff.org/2012/07/17/the-story-of-change/#more-5091
Here’s a link to the video:
http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-change/
Look for the fun “What kind of changemaker are you?” quiz at the end.
DarebinCAN 