Report on 2014 WA Senate Election Rerun.
With 86.7% of the vote counted HEMP held it’s primary at 1.05% - with more parties contesting. The primaries of nearly every other micro party fell.
As in Queensland last year, we were the last party to be excluded - reaching 7.80%. This time, all we needed was to receive the Greens surplus votes (instead them going to Labor) to get us in front of Labor which would have certainly elected Jim Moylan rather than the 3rd Liberal. As it is, with HEMP dropping out, Labor’s Louise Pratt can’t possibly head the Liberal candidate.
Still, both near misses shows that HEMP is competitive and so long as the established parties don’t succeed in changing the electoral system to suit themselves we can try again. We have to.
Except for the Sex Party or the Liberal-Democrats (let’s hope they’re true to label), no other party seems likely, any time soon, to take up the fight to consign prohibition in Australia to history.
WA Senate Re-election April 5
The Federal executive met to consider the WA Senate Election Re-Run which has been announced for the 5th of April (the soonest possible date).
The HEMP Party has nominated father and daughter, James Moylan and Tayla Moylan, to be our WA Senate Candidates. (more info)
The Election Campaign will be run as an Australia wide effort, involving all HEMP Party Branches in a series of coordinated actions highlighting different aspects of our struggle to have Cannabis re-legalised.
All HEMP Branches are invited to hold meetings ASAP and consider how we can use this election opportunity to get our message out and about in both social and mainstream media.
The nominated fund-raising target for this election is $12,000. So please dig deep and give as much as you can. Also slip on some comfy shoes and limber up people! We will win this issue one mind at a time and now that election time is here again; we all have a chance to get out and change a few minds.
With the growing public awareness that Cannabis has valid industrial, medical, and nutritional uses, we expect to get an even better vote this time. We need to see some progress regarding all the things we already agree on.
Thank you for being engaged and a part of the solution!
Michael Balderstone (President)
Graham Askey (Secretary)
James Moylan (National Campaign Director)
As and on behalf of the National Executive of the HEMP Party of Australia.
THE LAW IS THE CRIME - NOW IS THE TIME
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The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party is launching its WA Senate Election (Re-run) Campaign in Perth on Tuesday 25th of March at 1pm directly opposite Parliament House in Perth.
LOCATION MAP: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zuiriEP6fm0c.kVNo-hmRnkAg
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1376007452674849
THE BIG THREE WEDGE ISSUES…
Will every activist, wherever you are, get together and discuss the upcoming WA Poll? We can use this opportunity to have Cannabis law reform discussed in local and mainstream media. At the main table we will mainly considering…
Industrial… (1)
The Final Report of the Inquiry into the Tasmanian Industrial Hemp Industry (see link below) contains a raft of considered proposals that are coached in a manner that makes it easy for conservative politicians to understand the need to move on this issue as quickly as possible. We are going to spend a fair bit of time highlighting the need for Aussie politicians to take notice of the this report and act on its recommendations. Our byline for the “industrial HEMP debate at this election will be: “We have to catch up with the rest of the world”.
http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/House/Reports/Inquiry%20into%20the%20Tasmanian%20Industrial%20Hemp%20Industry%20-%20Final%20Feport.pdf
Hemp seed as a foodstuff… (2)
The FSANZ (Food Standards, Australia, New Zealand) inquiry into hemp seed for human consumption, which is looking into altering the Food Standards regulations to allow for the integration of hemp seed foodstuffs into the Australian marketplace, has been undertaking an eighteen month investigation for the last five years. This June the main FSANZ group meets (once again) to consider this matter.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/Search/pages/results.aspx?k=hemp%20seed
Every HEMP group in the country is invited to think about how we can highlight the stupidity of refusing to allow the for the cultivation and consumption of hemp seed for food in Australia. This is a big topic that is sooo easy for people to understand. Even silly and misguided people eat and understand some aspects of nutrition and the fostering of good health.
Medicine… (3)
The conservative forces in our land have always used the supposed requirement for far more research to be undertaken into cannabis as a medicine as a good ‘middle-ground’ – mainly as a stalling tactic: and so the result of most of the committees of inquiry into cannabis as a medicine that have been conducted in our land have concluded that we need to undertake a lot more research.
In this way the medicinal Cannabis debate has, time and again, stalled and then spluttered and then stalled once more. We get the momentum up for a committee of inquiry, it makes recommendations that research must be undertaken towards… And then nothing happens. Since, at the very least, everyone agrees that a great deal of research has to be done: why aren’t we undertaking the research?
Every group of HEMPsters is invited to ask a politician why they won’t even allow for research projects involving dying patients receiving needed medicine?
Campaign material and information
http://australianhempparty.com/contact/candidates
The HEMP Party appreciates your support. Thank you! Your donation to the HEMP Party is tax deductible.
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Nominated HEMP Party Senate Candidates 2014
1. James Moylan – Jim is a married 51 year old legal practitioner admitted to practice in Queensland. He is active in community associations in the Northern Rivers of NSW and is currently the Administrator of the Nimbin MardiGrass and the Secretary of the HEMP Embassy. He is also the National Campaign Director of the HEMP Party.
James recently earned a double degree in Arts and Law (received Honours in Law). These studies were supplemented by being the founding Secretary and then President of the Student Association of Southern Cross University for two terms, 2011 & 2012.
2. Tayla Moylan – 19 year old arts student who has been the Youth Affairs officer of the HEMP Party for the last eighteen months. Tayla ran the WA Election Campaign on behalf of HEMP during last year. Tayla is a bright and articulate advocate for the views of young Aussies about HEMP.
James Moylan (Campaign Director & WA Candidate) can be contacted on:
(02) 6621 8419 or Mob 0439 377 217 or by email at [email protected]
Michael Balderstone (HEMP President) can be contacted on:
(02) 6689 0326 or by email at [email protected]
Jim and Tayla plan on traveling both north and south of Perth during the campaign.
Follow the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party WA Senate Re-election Campaign online at
HEMP Party Western Australia Group on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/HEMP.WA