VIC: Democrats and Libs have same election slogan

AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-1999
VIC: Democrats and Libs have same election slogan

MELBOURNE, Aug 26 AAP - The Liberal Party and the Democrats share little common ground
except in Victoria where they have the same campaign slogan for the upcoming state election -
Working for our Future.

The slogan for the Victorian Liberal Party was unveiled yesterday.

The Australian Democrats say they have been using the same slogan for about two months.

"Working for our Future" is the headline splashed across the state division's home page on
the Democrats' national website; the slogan has also been used on election material already in
circulation.

Democrats state president Andrew Potter told AAP today they were pleased to share the
slogan with the Liberals.

"We're quite happy to have the same slogan, it'll give us an opportunity to contrast their
future and ours," Mr Potter told AAP today.

"Certainly our future doesn't involve changing the state's name to Victoria Pty Ltd."

Mr Potter said the party hoped the election campaign would propel the party into a more
active role in state politics.

"We need to be honest, the Victorian division has not been active and we see this election
as an opportunity to launch ourselves into this state's politics," he said.

Mr Potter said the Democrats were targeting upper house seats because the Victorian upper
house had become a sleepy old boys' club, rubber-stamping whatever the lower house passed.

He said that as in the Senate, the Democrats held the balance of power in South Australia's
upper house and held it jointly with the Greens in Western Australia.

Liberal Party state director Peter Poggioli said the party had no intention of changing its
slogan.

"We will continue to use it, we have a plan for the future," Dr Poggioli said on ABC radio.

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