End all public sector jobs and give families tax benefit vouchers for their services which can be delivered by the private sector and watch the population drop naturally.

I guess there is hardly any need to discuss any political question at all, is there, given that the solution to everything is so blindingly simple as Dallas insists?

I wonder if Dallas would care to explain where his/her magic prescription has been tried and has been found to have solved all of society's problems in the way he/she insists that it would have and, if so, why he/she thinks that that example has not been more widely emulated?

I see that Dallas is unable to find her voice.

What a shame! I would have so loved to be convinced that such a simple solution to all our problems exists.

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An article, which may be of interest is "Lawrence Springborg responds to Brisbane Save The Mary River Questionnaire" at http://candobetter.org/node/1130 http://candobetter.org/QldElections

The teaser is:

On 8 March I responded to a questionnaire from the Brisbane "Save The Mary River" group and sent copies to other candidates contesting the seat of Mount Coot-tha, as well as to Premier Anna Bligh and to Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg. Lawrence Springborg replied almost immediately that same day. I responded to ask that he act against the principle driver of .Queensland's water crises, namely population growth now actively encouraged by the Bligh Government.

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James Sinnamon

Independent anti-population growth
candidate for Mount Coot-tha
http://candobetter.org/QldElections/MountCoot-tha

James Sinnamon "daggett", Good luck with your undertakings in convincing the residents to vote for you on Saturday. It will be interesting to read the results, of all those individuals who decided you polices were going to help them.

Ps did you circulate a proforma petition on anti- population on your rounds while campaigning

The result of, as of 28 March, is 146 votes, or 0.62% of the formal vote, cannot be described as good (see http://virtualtallyroom.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/state2009/results/district56.html) and I haven't tried to dodge that fact (see preliminary article "What was achieved by my election campaign?" at http://candobetter.org/node/1158 http://candobetter.org/QldElections).

However, as I had almost no media exposure, very few Mount Coot-tha voters would have been able to decide for themselves whether or not my "policies were going to help them" as Dallas put.

In all I printed roughly 1,400 brochures and handed out (I guess) 650 in person and put the rest in letter boxes, mostly hurriedly on the night of Friday 20 March as time ran out. I spoke for 10 minutes to about 40-50 Mount Coot-tha electors for 10 minutes and answered questions at a 'meet the candidates' night on 16 March. I was interviewed once for 5 minutes on Radio 4ZZZ FM. I got two token mentions, only once in person, on ABC's local Radio station, but was not able to tell its listeners anything about myself.

I was not even able to tell ABC listeners the name of my web site. Had I been able to do so, a number of listeners would have been able to obtain a lot of the information that they were crying out for, not just about myself, but other candidates, including independents, Greens and even Labor and LNP caniddates.

I spoke before an audience of supporters of another independent candidate Dave Zwolenski (http://vote1honestdave.com.au/) on 19 March. Although the audience was very supportive, I think it unlikely that many of them would have given me their first preference over Dave.

Other than that my only exposure was my web site, which, whilst gaining increasing numbers overall, evidently attracted far too visitors interested in my campaign, in particular, on the part of Mount Coot-tha electors, to have made the impact I was hoping for.

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Even though I grew up in the area, I moved away in 1976 and only moved back four and a half years ago. As I live a largely physically reclusive life, largely devoted to internet activism, when I am not working for a living, my profile in the area is not as high as I would have liked it to have been. So the number of votes I can rely on from friends and relatives is not high.
So, the result for me wasn't altogether unexpected.

Still, I believe my reasons for standing were sound.

Whilst others on OLO have also attempted to use the results to ridicule me (see "9/11 Truth" forum at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166&page=81#59277) none have accepted my challenge to show where my reasons for standing (see "Why I am contesting the Queensland state elections as an independent" of 9 March 2009 at http://candobetter.org/node/1121) were unsound .