Dr Benjamin Habib

Federal Election 2010: Online candidates forum for the Electorate of Indi

This page archives a series of podcast interviews I conducted with each of the candidates for the seat of Indi in leadup to the 2010 federal election, during the first two weeks of the election campaign. At the time I was based at the La Trobe University campus in Albury-Wodonga as Lecturer in Politics and International Relations.

Each of the candidates are good people who have made a strong contribution to their local communities. The candidates were asked a set of similar questions on local issues, the state of political debate in Australia, climate change, the economy, and border security. This framework therefore gives you a basis to directly compare philosophical positions and policy proposals of each candidate and the party they represent.

Candidates are listed in alphabetical order. I was not able to obtain interviews with every candidate for the seat.

Select here for a breakdown of the results from the 2010 federal election published by the Australian Electoral Commission.

Mark Carey

Australian Democrats

Alan Lappin

Independent

Zuvele Leschen

Australian Labor Party

Sophie Mirabella

Liberal Party

Jenny O’Connor

Greens

2 comments

  1. Sophie Miraabella’s Website implies Labor has left a massive debt. The Reserve Bank Govenor, Glenn Stevens, stated” there is virtuallyl no net public debt in the country at all, in contrast to much of the developed workld”. Ex Reserve Bank Govenor, Bernie Fraser, agreed with this and also stated that Liberals were poor economic managers because they refused to support the stimulus package in a time of need.

    Given that Australia’s debt is to peak at 90 billion in 2012 -13 and this is only 6% of Gross Demostic Product (GDP) compared to debts of 84% of GDP for Britain, 86% of the GDP for USA and 154% for Japan I wonder on what basis Sophie states we have a debt crises in Australia.

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  2. I had to ask someone today if I had to vote. I thought maybe INDI was uncontested or something. I have had nothing in my mail about postal voting, nothing about any of the candidates, and theres none of those terrible photo signs around town.
    Do we now have to search and find out for ourselves who the candidates are and what they stand for???
    Ok I’m here now and if I can be bothered I will read and listen to what each has to say but many others cannot or will not.
    Gary
    Avenel Vict 3664

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