Higgins by-election - Candidate Info and How to Vote cards.

There are 10 candidates for the Higgins by-election on the 5th of December. Here they are in the order they appear on the ballot paper. All pictures and candidate information are taken from their official website where possible,

Stephen Murphy - Independent
A member of The Climate Sceptics Party. Running as an independent as the party has not yet finalised it's registration.
Here's what Stephen says on his website. "I strongly believe that we have been mislead on the issue of climate change.I can find no credible scientific evidence supporting the claim that human CO2 emissions are causing dangerous global warming - can you ?"

Fiona Patten - Australian Sex Party

Fiona is the convenor of the Australian Sex Party and has had 20 years experience as a lobbyist and industry association CEO around the federal parliament. “I’ve had more experience representing people around the parliament in Canberra than most candidates for a House of Reps seat have had”, she said. “Representing the people of Higgins would be a challenge but I’d hit the ground running”.

Ms Patten’s background is in representing adult retailers and small business operators and she is committed to getting rid of the extraordinary amount of red tape and taxes that hinder people setting up small and family businesses.

Kelly O'Dwyer - Liberal Party 

After leaving university, Kelly embarked on a legal career at Freehills.
Later, she spent almost four years working as a Senior Adviser to the Federal Treasurer. Most recently, she was an executive at the National Australia Bank.
Kelly is a board member of Creativity Australia, an organisation working with marginalised members of the community. Prior to this, she volunteered as a member of the Victorian Advisory Council of Camp Quality, an organisation that helps children with cancer and their families.


Issac Roberts - Liberal Democrats

Isaac works as a Chartered Accountant with a large Melbourne accounting firm.

He has specific expertise in the areas of tax policy and legislation, and regularly provides advice in relation to those areas to large private companies and high wealth individuals.

He specific areas of interest include civil liberties and freedom, energy policy and climate change, immigration, LGBTI rights, welfare policy and taxation.

Clive Hamilton - The Greens

Clive Hamilton is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. He founded The Australia Institute in 1993 and built it into Australia’s leading progressive think tank, serving as its executive director until early 2008 when he took up a position as professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
Clive is particularly well known for his expertise and commentary on the politics and science of climate change, on which he has written two books, with a third on the way. His work on ‘affluenza’ and consumerism, including the ‘downshifting’ phenomenon, has stimulated a national debate on materialism and the sources of happiness.

David Collyer - Australian Democrats

David Collyer was previously senior adviser to then-senator and party leader Lyn Allison.  Earlier, he held key public affairs roles at the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and at Kodak Australasia.  He is a graduate of Melbourne’s film and television school, then at Swinburne and now at the VCA.  He is the father of two and lives in Kew East.  He publishes on the Victorian Democrats’ blog at dinkumdemocrats.com

  
Joseph Toscano - Independent

Well known Anarchist who has contested the Victorian Senate at every Federal election since 1990. Dr Toscano is a medical practitioner, having qualified in medicine through the University of Queensland, and was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine by Melbourne University in 1987 for a thesis on spinal cord paralysis.. Toscano is the editor of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review, a radio commentator with 3CR, and describes himself as a public intellectual and historical author.  (Info Source: Antony Green)




Steve Raskovy - One Nation

Steve came originally from Hungary in 1956 and has joined One Nation because he knows the horrors of living under a totalitarian regime where only one way of thinking is tolerated people can be jailed for speaking their views. When Steve came here migrants blended into the community and didn’t try to impose their culture and values on the rest if the nation. In 1964 Steve represented Australia as a wrestler at the Tokyo Olympics. He has since been awarded the Order of Australia medal.



Peter Brohier - Independent

Peter Brohier was Chairman of the former National Sea Highway Committee, a group that successfully lobbied for the ferries crossing Bass Strait to be subsidised as if part of the national highway system. He is a law graduate from Monash University and is standing in Higgins to bring attention to his plans for transport infrastructure. He runs a company that prints map reproductions, including reproductions on an intriguing variety of clothing items. (Info source: Antony Green)

John Mulholland - Democratic Labor Party

Mulholland is secretary of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) and is something of a warhorse for the party, having stood at most state and federal elections since his first contest in Bruce at the 1977 federal election. He had a brief moment of glory at the 2006 Victorian election when he was initially declared elected as a member of the upper house North Metropolitan Region. A re-count revealed a data entry error had boosted the DLP vote, and Mulholland's victory was not confirmed by the re-count. Mulholland has had a varied working life as a fruiterers hand, postie, foundry worker, teacher, guidance officer, school principal, psychologist in one of Melbourne s major hospitals and now as DLP activist. He was married in 1968 and has six adult children and six grandchildren (Info and Picture Source: Antony Green)

How to vote cards.
(All how-to-vote cards have been taken from the candidate's website or provided to me by the candidates themselves.)


Fiona Patten - Australian sex Party

Kelly O'Dwyer - Liberal Party

Clive Hamilton - The Greens

Joseph Toscano - Independent

Steve Raskovsky - One Nation 

Peter Brohier
Peter has told me he is not directing preferences or giving out how-to votes


John Mulholland

Polling Places

ARMADALE	Armadale Primary School Densham Rd	8am - 6pm	Yes
ARMADALE	Lauriston Girls School 38 Huntingtower Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
ARMADALE	Malvern Memorial Kindergarten 15 Orchard Street	8am - 6pm	Yes
ASHBURTON	Craig Family Centre 7 Samarinda Ave	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
ASHBURTON	Ashburton Primary School Fakenham Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
ASHBURTON	Solway Primary School Winton Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
CAMBERWELL	Camberwell Primary School 290 Camberwell Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
CAMBERWELL	Camberwell Church of Christ 620 Riversdale Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
CARNEGIE	Carnegie Primary School 51 Truganini Rd	8am - 6pm	No
GLEN IRIS	Melbourne Chinese Christian Church 29 Summerhill Rd	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
GLEN IRIS	Sacre Coeur Girls School 172 Burke Road	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
GLEN IRIS	First Camberwell South Scout Hall Ferndale Park, Glen Iris Road	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
GLEN IRIS	Gardiner Church of Christ 1542 Malvern Road	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
GLEN IRIS	Alfred Road Pre School 48a Alfred Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
GLEN IRIS	Camberwell South Primary School Peate Ave	8am - 6pm	Yes
GLEN IRIS	Glen Iris Road Uniting Church Glen Iris Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
HUGHESDALE	Oakleigh Greek Orthodox College 77-81 Willesden Road	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
KOOYONG	Vision Australia 454 Glenferrie Rd	8am - 6pm	Yes
MALVERN	Malvern Central School Spring Rd	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
MALVERN	Presbyterian Church Hall 161 Wattletree Road	8am - 6pm	No
MALVERN EAST	Malvern Primary School 17 Tooronga Road	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
MALVERN EAST	Malvern Valley Primary School Abbotsford Avenue	8am - 6pm	Yes
MALVERN EAST	Malvern East Primary School Lloyd Street	8am - 6pm	Yes
MALVERN EAST	First Malvern Scout Hall Cooinda Pl, Belgrave Rd	8am - 6pm	No
MURRUMBEENA	Murrumbeena Primary School Hobart Rd	8am - 6pm	Yes
PRAHRAN	Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School 7 Wynnstay Street	8am - 6pm	Yes
PRAHRAN	Prahran RSL Memorial Hall 301 High Street	8am - 6pm	Yes
PRAHRAN	Old Prahran Theatre 29-31 Macquarie St	8am - 6pm	No
SOUTH YARRA	South Yarra Community Baptist Church 12 Surrey Road	8am - 6pm	Assisted access
SOUTH YARRA	Toorak-South Yarra Library 340 Toorak Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
SOUTH YARRA	Renown Kindergarten 20 Cliff Street	8am - 6pm	Yes
SOUTH YARRA	Melbourne Girls Grammar Junior School (Morris Hall) 100 Caroline Street	8am - 6pm	Yes
TOORAK	Toorak Uniting Church 603 Toorak Road	8am - 6pm	Yes
TOORAK	Toorak Primary School Canterbury Road	8am - 6pm	No
TOORAK WEST	Melbourne High School Main vehicle access via Alexandra Ave	8am - 6pm	Yes (from 679 Chapel St, South Yarra)
WINDSOR	Stonnington C of C and Community Rec Centre 61-71 McIlwrick	8am - 6pm	Assisted access