Category Archives: Campaign Diary

The Tyranny of the Faraways

October 29, 2007 – 10:47 am

An increasingly influential rallying point for lefties in Australia is the group blog Larvatus Prodeo. I drop in there from time to time because some of the writers are quite sensible. It also provides a useful barometer of leftist thinking — an aggregator of whatever narrative is sweeping the collective mind of inner suburbanites in [...]

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Day 14 and some photos

October 28, 2007 – 4:57 pm

I’ve been trying to arrange some photos to encourage the NT News to talk up our booster draft fundraisers some more. Yesterday I went down to Comics NT, who are supplying our boosters, to have some promo photos taken by Steve Buic.
I’ve posted a few of the photos over the fold.

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in From the Candidate | Comments (1)

Day 13

October 27, 2007 – 1:50 pm

Today has been fairly productive so far. We did a taping session for a series of youtube videos that I’ll start whacking up over the next week or so. If you watch them and have any questions, please call or email me, or leave a comment. I’ll answer them in future videos.
I also have the [...]

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in From the Candidate | Comments (0)

Day 12 and a note on where you can find me next week

October 26, 2007 – 3:59 pm

Day 12 has been uneventful, though the visit to Hot 100 seems to have lead to a small bump in visitors since yesterday.
Next week you will be able to find me at the second fundraising Booster Draft. I’m hoping to get a mention into the Sunday papers; we’ll see if that comes off. I will [...]

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Day 11

October 25, 2007 – 7:24 am

I just got back from the Hot 100 FM studio where I did a live-to-air interview. I think it went OK, though I’ll need to listen to the recording to get a better sense of things.
Unsurprisingly the hosts brought up the guns thing again, but I still managed to put in a plug for our [...]

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in From the Candidate | Comments (1)

Do You Like Geeking Out?

October 23, 2007 – 2:40 pm

I am a geek of serious pedigree. I tick the major geek boxes — roleplaying games and CCGs, watching anime, reading science fiction and studying computer science. Most of my friends are similarly geeks.
When discussion came up of how to raise some money for my campaign, we naturally turned to our geek roots. During my [...]

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in From the Candidate | Comments (4)

Days 8 & 9

October 23, 2007 – 12:14 am

It’s now the earliest part of Day 9, and the Newspoll is in: Labor leads the Coalition on a Two-Party Preferred basis, 58% to 42%.
That is landslide territory. The Coalition is in danger of being reduced to a stump. It will happen to the Coalition the way it happened to the CLP in the NT. [...]

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in From the Candidate | Comments (0)

1001 to 1

October 22, 2007 – 4:50 pm

Those are my current odds at CentreBet. I might fling a few bucks down on myself — it’d be a nice bonus!

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Looking for Feedback

October 22, 2007 – 3:55 pm

So my campaign uberlegends and I are working on a flyer to distribute throughout the seat over the next 5 weeks. Here’s a draft we’ve knocked up. I’d be interested in getting feedback.

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in From the Candidate | Comments (4)

And Speaking of Blame

October 22, 2007 – 8:37 am

Solomon Labor candidate Damian Hale said Palmerston residents are “sick and tired of hearing the blame game”.

“It’s the Federal Government’s fault. They have put nowhere near enough money in the project,” he said.
Nicely done, Damien.

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