[plug] Internet oppression - watch your backs!

[Bret Busby]

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On 5/6/99, 10:55:38 AM, skribe <skribe at amber.com.au> wrote regarding Re: 
[plug] Internet oppression - watch your backs!:


> On 05-May-99 Bret Busby wrote:
> > You mean that holiday, for the rich and the famous? That picnic for
> > the politicians' mates, that cost $500 a ticket, that was
> > non-refundable, so that the average person had no chance of going on,
> > unless they were rich, or, had rich friends?

> $500 is the standard cost to enrol to be a candidate for any federal 
election.
> Usually that money is refunded if you get more than 4% of the vote.  
I'm not
> sure whether or not the money was refunded for the candidates that got 
more
> than 4% of the vote for the convention.

The money was not refundable. That was made clear at the time, before 
"nominations" opened.

The deposit amount, for nomination in feral elections, was $250 for 
the lower house, before the picnic, I believe.

Bret Busby