Greens MPs

The outcome of the final Senate spot in Victoria is still up for grabs for Greens candidate Richard di Natale, with a possible recount on the cards.
We have been scrutineering at most polling booths since election day, and have picked up a number of inconsistencies, mistakes and misattributed votes.

On Saturday 24 November 2007, the thirteen and a half million enrolled Australians wrote the Howard Government into history. Not just a mild rebuke, but one of the most delightfully unambiguous electoral demolition jobs our country has ever seen.

According to Steve Biddulph, we will be within two electoral cycles, thanks to the twin issues of climate change and peak oil.

The question is, will we live up to the potential?

Can we do it?

With the Senate numbers still to be finalised - and maybe a while off - we do have one milestone we can confirm: achieving the million votes mark in the Senate.

So here we are. It's taken me this long to get through the firewall here and start blogging, but here we go...

You'll have seen the exit polls by now, I imagine. And the numbers are starting to go up on the big board. Not that that matters, anymore, of course, in our online world.

I've been told that we're over 20% in Sydney, Melbourne, Richmond and many more.

So, election day is here at last.

After a great, long campaign, now it's fingernail biting time...
I spent the morning at a rather conservative booth in Canberra. Good to see lots of people coming straight up to us asking for the Greens how-to-vote, and crossing their fingers at us on the way back out again.

Nothing more can be done, really. Just wait and see.

Two Green issues have been swept under the carpet by both Howard and Rudd during this election campaign – the nuclear agenda, which I'll post on shortly, and peak oil.

In 26 hours time, the polls will close on the 2007 election. The whole country holds its breath. What are the odds Australians will vote for a break from the past, change the Government, and send an expanded team of Greens Senators to Canberra?

The blogosphere has played a key role in shaping how this campaign has been perceived, particularly in terms of shining a clear light on poll results and trends. Its next challenge is how it covers election night itself. My hope is that it can offer some serious analysis to help inform the mainstream media's coverage, both on the night and the morning after.