Comment and Opinion

Voter Rights Party (Australia)

When lunatics test the boundaries (23/1/2021)
Imagine you created a new political party with the aim of totally reinventing everything to do with the way Australian society is structured, everything to do with how people vote, and basically everything. Then imagine that nobody took any notice of you. This would get you annoyed, so you would probably take to YouTube to tell the world about how you were being overlooked by the media and others who should be supporting and promoting your vision. Here is Teresa van Lieshout (yes, that really is her name) of the Voter Rights Party telling someone that he should have interviewed her. (She made a shorter video aimed at main stream media outlets who weren't paying her enough (any?) attention but for some reason my downloading program could only capture the audio. Pictures are needed to capture the full flecking of foam.)

Teresa doesn't believe that COVID 19 is any sort of threat. She is opposed to any measures that authorities take to try to reduce the spread. She opposes any vaccine. Her party is appreciated by election officials because it's so easy to count and audit the stacks of zero and one votes at polling places. (I have been a polling place official at several elections and we can't go home until all the votes have been counted and allocated to candidates. Smaller piles make for faster counting.)

The newspapers, television, radio and other media outlets might ignore Teresa, but as a bona fide member of the journalists' union I feel obliged to bring her story to the masses.

Put on a raincoat and enjoy!