the by-elections

As Greens MLC Greg Barber said on Sunday:
" We took the issues to the voters: public transport, public parkland, public housing, public schooling and the health of the bay. The Green vote keeps surging forward and we're enormously heartened by that. Despite attack ads, heaps of glossy mailouts and a fake 'concerned citizen' letter authored by their (the ALP's) pollster, our primary vote is up and Labor's two party preferred is down."

"Labor's negative strategy has backfired - they should have come up with their own policies instead of lying about ours," Greg said.

Albert Park Green Primary vote 28.53% (November 2006: 19.07%)

Williamstown Green Primary vote 21.87% (November 2006: 12.36%)