Sam Byrne, the Greens candidate for Sydney’s inner west seat of Grayndler, congratulated caretaker Minister Anthony Albanese today for winning his seat back despite a swing to the Greens of nearly 7%.
“I am elated that Grayndler is now very winnable for the Greens at the next election,” Mr Byrne said. “Australian Electoral Commission results show Labor holds Grayndler by just a 4.36% margin from the Greens.”
“Just a few more people voting Greens next time will see Grayndler sending another Green to join Adam Bandt, the Greens MP for Melbourne, in the House of Representatives.”
“We are no longer a safe seat that can be taken for granted. Mr Albanese will have to deliver real solutions on climate change and aircraft noise or more voters will go Green at the next election.” . . . → Read More: Grayndler turns marginal as Greens look to future elections
Counting in the now very marginal seat of Grayndler will continue on Monday in a race between Labor factional warlord and Minister Anthony Albanese and the Greens’ Sam Byrne.
“One of the safest Labor seats in the country is now too close to call with a 25% margin wiped away,” said Sam Byrne.
If you haven’t met Sam, or heard him speak, this video is a great introduction to what drove him in to politics and how he sees the big issues in this weekend’s election:
Over 200 people came to the Grayndler candidates forum on Wednesday, to hear Sam Byrne, Anthony Albanese and other candidates answer questions put by the audience.
The forum was prompted by Sam’s challenge to Anthony Albanese to debate the issues that mattered to people living in the inner west. The event, organised by the Inner West Courier took place at Marrickville Town Hall.
Don’t forget that Sam Byrne, Anthony Albanese and other candidates for Grayndler will debate the local issues that you care about at Marrickville Town Hall, tomorrow (Wednesday) from 6pm. See more details here . . . → Read More: Grayndler Debate Reminder
Sam Byrne, Greens candidate for Granydler, met this week with members of the local Tibetan community to discuss the situation in Tibet and their hopes for stronger support from the Australian Government.
“The Greens have long supported a peaceful resolution of the Tibetan situation and I pledge today to actively promote the human rights and democratic freedoms of the Tibetan people if elected to the Federal Parliament,” Sam Byrne said
“The major parties have made almost no mention of foreign affairs this election.”
“When it comes to China, while we recognize the importance of the Australia-China economic relationship, the Greens speak for the many Australians who believe firmly that we can still play a constructive role in promoting a peaceful resolution for Tibet.”
Labor’s Anthony Albanese has accepted Sam challenge to a Grayndler debate! Sam challenged the Labor MP for Grayndler to a debate last week, and the debate will take next Wednesday at Marrickville Town Hall, facilitated by the Inner West Courier. Other Grayndler candidates Pip Hinman (Socialist Alliance), Perry Garofini (Democrats) and James Cogan (Socialist Equality Party) are all confirmed to attend. . . . → Read More: Game On!
Greens candidate for Grayndler Sam Byrne launched his YouTube channel today, releasing a series of campaign videos that set out the positive Greens vision for Australia and caution voters to avoid more of the same policy disappointments from the major parties and from the Member for Grayndler and factional warlord Anthony Albanese. . . . → Read More: Sam launches videos taking Albanese to task over policy failures
