November 26, 2007 (LPAC)--In the Nov. 24 national elections in Australia, the combined electoral slate of the LaRouche Youth Movement and CEC--Citizens Electoral Council, friends of Lyndon LaRouche-- scored the 9th largest vote total from amongst 21 political groups contesting the federal election, running 95 candidates across the country. Whilst vote counting has not yet been finalized, the CEC scored approximately 0.21% of the national vote, some 28,000 votes total. There are critical patterns among the general turn-out.

The highest vote for the CEC came in a House of Representatives election in the Melbourne seat of Calwell where full-time CEC organizer Sleiman Yohanna polled 2.34%. This seat has a large migrant population with poor English skills and scrutineers reported that many informal (uncountable) votes were in fact for Sleiman. In two of the largest polling booths, Sleiman came in third behind Labor and Liberal.

The Australian LYM also organized heavily in this electorate in the final weeks of the campaign, including taking their chorus to many of the busiest polling booths on election day. Notable among the hysterical responses to the LYM singing, were the Greens who freaked out every time, accusing LaRouche youth of being racists despite the fact that Sleiman is an Iraqi Australian, and both Indian and Chinese supporters were singing in the chorus! The Greens have also just come out for Federal funding of the mass-murderous "video game industry".

In the Northern Territory, the CEC Senate slate got 1.82%, with a high in the electorate of Lingiari, where they received 3.15% of the Senate vote. That no doubt reflected the CEC campaign against Howard's brutal assault on the Aboriginal community there. Under the guise of "protecting Aboriginal children from sexual abuse", in this, the eighth most prospective mineral region in the entire world (which provides 11% of the world's total supplies of mined uranium, among other things), Howard sent the Army in to seize most of the 53% of the Territory which is Aboriginal land.

All campaign volunteers reported significant rage coming from the voting public, not at the CEC (except for the Greens), but at politics in general, with the defining issue being fear about their future security.

Actual ideas can never be reduced to a populist vote, especially within the Australian British Establishment-controlled parliamentary system, however LaRouche's leadership and ideas have reached almost every Australian, thanks to the mass circulation of over seven million copies of the CEC New Citizen newspaper in the last two years, and the rapidly increasing expansion of outreach via the Internet, with over 130,000 individual visits to the CEC website in just the last month.

Now that the election is over, the CEC and LYM will turn up the heat in mobilizing to have the Federal Government implement an Australian version of LaRouche's Homeowner and Bank Protection Act, now garnering hinterland support across the United States. Three hundred thousand copies of a flyer complete with a petition for mass endorsements by ordinary Australians and institutional leaders alike, has been disbursed to the CEC national support base for distribution immediately. Action is urgently required given that 40% of all Australian homeowners are officially "mortgage-stressed", and 800-1,000 homeowners are being foreclosed every week, and over 50% of family farms are expected to disappear within less than 12 months.

This was the real issue of the election campaign, which nobody but the CEC and LYM dared to mention. The Australian LYM and CEC say, "Stand-By" for further additional detailed updates.