An Icy Reception

This afternoon, the Greens candidates for the Federal seats of Cook and Hughes launched their campaign... in front of the office of Dana Vale, the liberal incumbent for the last ten years. You see, her office abuts a tiled public space between East Parade, the car park and a nice Thai restaurant. It was a perfectly legal assembly, which didn't stop the police turning up. Lord knows what they thought we were going do.

This, however, is what we did.

Dana Vale is one of a number of Liberal MPs who rejected the government's report on climate change, saying they did not believe that global warming could be human induced (she is also infamous for suggesting the Gallipoli-world theme park). So our ingenious candidates found an ice sculptor. Thus a three foot high portrait bust was unValed and subsequently melted in public while the launch was celebrated at the Thai restaurant.