Lucky You, Dave!
Enjoy.
John Tongue
Devonport, Tas.
On 09/09/2014, at 7:54 AM, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> An analysis of what voters claimed influenced them in the last Fed election
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/world/victorian-election-the-countdown/2014/aug/27/law-and-order-issues-key-for-victorias-swing-voters
>
> I guess if you bundled environment, global warming and carbon tax together
> it would make it into 5th place - but of course this dos not say if the
> carbon tax issue was for or against!
>
> Anyway - time to go birding on King Island for a few days with probably no
> internet access
>
> On 9 September 2014 07:50, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>
>> Depressing!
>>
>> On 9 September 2014 07:45, Denise Goodfellow <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> According to my research on US birders, the keenest are often least
>>> likely to be particularly conservation-minded.
>>>
>>>
>>> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
>>> PO Box 71
>>> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
>>>
>>> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
>>>
>>> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
>>> Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern
>>> Territory
>>> 043 8650 835
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On 9 Sep 2014, at 6:15 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>>>
>>> When questioned most people say they are willing to support "good causes".
>>> They even say they will vote for politicians who will support such things.
>>> But in practice relatively few do - if the figures quoted in the article
>>> were actually representative of reality then BirdLife Australia - surely
>>> one of the major "bird conservation" bodies in the country - would have a
>>> much larger income and supporter base than it actually has. And perhaps
>>> the
>>> makeup of our parliaments would be a little different.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9 September 2014 04:14, Julian Bielewicz <>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings All
>>>
>>> I suspect that Dave is sadly on the right track; to give one has to care
>>> first.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Julian
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