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	PM - Meg Lees stretching political legs
		MEG LEES: I'm actually engaged with Senator Patterson and I'll be meeting with her again in a week or so, and we'll be continuing negotiations independently.
		MEG LEES: We have to find a solution, we can't simply keep saying no, no, no. We have to look at what their problems are.
		MEG LEES: Well they shouldn't be thinking that, because that is what we've said, you know, I've said all along that the last thing we want to do is to put any additional costs on those people who are sick.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s636770.htm (898 words)

	Meg Lees Under Attack By Democrats; Senate Numbers At Stake [June 25, 2002]
		The former leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Meg Lees, is embroiled in a bitter dispute over the leadership of Natasha Stott Despoja that threatens to split the party and hand the Howard Government the chance of passing its contentious privatisation of Telstra legislation.
		A letter sent to Lees by the Party's Acting National President, Liz Oss-Emer, on June 10, said that Lees' comments had caused "consternation" and "are widely perceived to be an indication that you are not fully supportive of the leadership of the Party".
		Lees, on the other hand, is still blamed for her GST deal with the Howard government in 1999, although she apparently commands the support of a majority of the party's senatorial team.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/06/02-06-25.shtml (825 words)

	Democrats Leader Meg Lees Faces Challenge [February 27, 2001]
		Senator Meg Lees, leader of the Australian Democrats, the party that holds the balance of power in the Senate, is to face a challenge from her deputy, Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja.
		It is possible Senator Lees may opt to vacate the leadership in order to allow an immediate resolution of the conflict that has been bubbling beneath the surface of the party for some time now.
		Lees has come under criticism for the deal she struck with the Howard government over the GST and a general perception that the party is too close to the government.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2001/01-02-27.shtml (225 words)

	Resources - Mr Howard, the number you have called may just be connected - 11 July 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Lees wrote that she couldn't attend due to prior engagements, she hadn't contravened party policy and no evidence had been presented demonstrating she had.
		Lees was a realo type of leader, who accepted the people chose the Government, and worked with the Government and opposition of the day to get tangible outcomes in progressive policy delivery and spending initiatives in the Democrats areas of interest.
		Making Lees a martyr and having the party hierarchy chase her for alleged breaches of unity, while proclaiming the party are about embracing difference smacks of the Orwellian faceless men and sends a confusing public signal.
	www.brisinst.org.au /resources/brown_susan_telstradem.html (2076 words)

	Australian DemocratsPeople Of The Australian Democrats
		Meg led the SA Senate ticket in 1993 and was elected for a six year term.
		Meg moved to Adelaide with her family in 1986 and taught until 1989, when she was endorsed to fill the Senate vacancy.
		Meg is a former councillor with the Australian Conservation Foundation.
	www.democrats.org.au /people?person_id=80&display=1&level=1 (477 words)

	Financial Review: Lees attacks Telstra job cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Meg Lees said the move would do little to win Senate support for the government's plans to sell its remaining majority share in the telco.
		Senator Lees said she had retained an open mind about the possible full sale of Telstra, but its actions and those of the government were difficult to defend.
		Senator Lees is set to send a questionnaire to 110,000 South Australian households asking their opinion about the full sale of Telstra.
	afr.com /cgi-bin/newtextversions.pl?pagetype=printer&path=/articles/2004/01/15/1073877953032.html (381 words)

	Meg Lees -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She previously represented the (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Democrats) Australian Democrats from 1990 to 2002, and was an independent senator between 2002 and 2003.
		Lees was born in (The largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port) Sydney, and trained as a teacher.
		In April, 2003, Lees announced the founding of the (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Progressive Alliance) Australian Progressive Alliance, which she claimed would have a more centrist view than the Democrats.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/meg_lees.htm (830 words)

	Focus
		I was not invited to call her Meg just Senator - but that's fair enough because she obviously craves respect as the most powerful shiela in Australia since the Australian Democrats hold the balance of power in Canberra - not that it does us much good.
		We wouldn't have had the GST without her and we recall and recoil from the photographs of her triumphantly shaking hands with the PM after the GST deal was struck and after the parliament and the nation argued about cooked chooks for weeks.
		Senator Lees and her new husband, the admirable and crusading Matthew Mitchell, joined the PM's Federation junket to London last year at enormous expense to the taxpayers.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jenks/lees.html (1238 words)

	Articles - Meg Lees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Meg Heather Lees (born 19 October 1948) was a member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia.
		Kernot defected to the Australian Labor Party in October 1997, and Lees was called upon to stand in as acting leader.
		At the October 2004 election however, Lees failed to make the required quota to retain her seat, receiving only a 10th of the required votes to get another six-year term.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Meg_Lees?mySession=cbec0b788df898f58f28cf765cf9ea8b (658 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When Meg Lees was called to account by the elected and established Party bodies for her statements she began talking about "thought police" and "intolerance" and claimed her right to "freedom of opinion".
		In declaring her right to remain in Parliament as an "independent" she claims that the electoral votes were for her and not for Meg Lees the leader of the Democrats as she was at the time of the election.
		The announcement by both Lees and Murray that they will hold on to their Senate seats is unprincipled and opportunist and could give the Howard Government the numbers in the Senate to complete the full privatisation of Telstra and who knows what other legislation.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve5/1102edit.html (718 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ryan Meg
		Ryan, Meg (1961-), American film actress, best known for playing perky characters in romantic comedies.
		His later films include Apollo 13 (1995), in which he played the commander of the doomed mission, Toy Story (1995), a computer-animated film for...
		Lees, Meg (1948-), Australian politician, leader of the Australian Democrats (1997-2001).
	au.encarta.msn.com /Ryan_Meg.html (92 words)

	Dark days Ahead for Democrats - Political Corrections with Margo Kingston - The Northern Rivers Echo Newspaper, Lismore
		Lees is a great dealmaker, a believer in getting her priorities - especially on the environment - over the line in exchange for things she mightn't completely approve of.
		Meg could garner the votes of up to four Democrats Senators if she could get a good deal out of Howard.
		Lees leads the rest into a viable alternative for small l Liberals like Greg Barnes, a former adviser to John Hewson (and isn't he sounding like a social-democrat these days!) who resigned for the Liberal Party to join the Democrats this week.
	www.echonews.com /825/politics.html (750 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Meg Lees has done her party's members and supporters, the working people, low paid and pensioners of Australia a grave disservice and follows the equally dishonourable example set by former leader Cheryl Kernot in her support for the Howard Government's anti-trade union Workplace Relations Act.
		The Democrats' leader, Meg Lees, had insisted on foods being removed from a GST but this has been watered down to only "basic foods" — whatever that means.
		We call on individuals and organisations to forward protests or a copy of this statement to Meg Lees, leader of the Democrats, while supporting those Democrats who have indicated their opposition to the deal.
	www.zip.com.au /~cpa/garchive/956cc.htm (452 words)

	WA Democrats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As a result, loss of support signalled the death of the party whose electoral support was annihilated at the October 2004 general election, though four long-term senators may remain until 2007 (or a possible earlier double dissolution of the Australian Parliament).
		Lees responded by quitting the party, though clinging to the party's SA Senate seat as an independent.
		Blaming Meg Lees, the national membership again moved to oust her as national parliamentary leader.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jenks/wadem.html (1006 words)

	ARPA:‘An extraordinary woman in an extraordinary time’
		Her successor Meg Lees ensured that the party recovered from Kernot’s dramatic departure, but Meg Lees’ negotiations over the Goods and Services Tax aroused fears that the party was too close to the Government and had compromised its independence, especially as the Greens seemed to gain support at the Democrats’ expense.
		She was asked what it felt like to have Meg Lees’ blood on her hands, and there were stories about Lees’ staff losing jobs.
		Lees charged the Leader’s staff with leaking material to damage her, but Rogers argues that most leaks appeared on the Crikey website and clearly were intended to damage Stott Despoja.
	www.australianreview.net /digest/2005/03/smith.html (3208 words)

	Crikey Website - The rise and fall of Natasha Stott-Despoja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Lees resigned from the Democrats in July 2002.
		Page 163: "It (the Meg Lees response attacking Natasha) was an extraordinary document, with, one might think, only one aim: to cause maximum damage.
		Page 169: "One of Meg's staff members was being investigated for the leaking of the letter, though Meg maintained that she knew nothing about its leak.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2004/10/28-0005.html (854 words)

	:: Meg's Desk :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Meg Lees has represented South Australia in the Senate since 1990.
		Meg believes in looking for common ground with other Members of the Parliament in order to make progress for Australia.
		Instead she will work through each issue on its merits, engaging in active debate in the Parliament and with the community along the way.
	www.megsdesk.com (143 words)

	Nowwethepeople
		Senator Lees is not credible when she says that the government will get to sell the rest of Telstra, but that she would not vote for the sale.
		If Senator Lees gets to do a repeat of her GST deal, there are even brighter prospects for the Howard government than the $31 billion.
		It is worth reflecting on the fate of the call centres that Senator Harradine ‘won’ for his vote for T2, and on the environmental advances won by Meg Lees for her vote on the GST.
	www.nowwethepeople.org /Telstrasale.htm (1122 words)

	Keks: Meg is at it again
		Giving Australia the GST despite Will Meg Lees become the new Mal Colston?">it being against the wishes of of the Democrats and the people that gave them the balance of power in the senate i.e.
		Lees rocks power balance">She resigns from the Australian Democrats (a good thing) BUT not the senate, which was a breech of the Democrats constitution
		[Liz Oss-Emer] reminded Senator Lees of the Democrats' constitution, saying she would "no doubt be aware" of the rule that elected candidates could not remain in Parliament if they had resigned from the party.
	kekoc.com /mt/archives/001068.html (191 words)

	Workers Online Print Edition
		Meg either has a philosophical objection to working families getting decent affordable health care, or she is a moron.
		If Meg thinks that these clowns are doing anything except engaging in a cynical exercise in pulling Medicare to pieces then she's dumber than she looks.
		Meg can go into the Tool Shed until she shows signs of remission, and develops a human side to her blinkered worldview and starts to understand what this Federal Government is doing to working Australian families.
	workers.labor.net.au /212/print_index.html (5845 words)

	Bulletin - Lees leaves Democrats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Australian Democrats were rocked by the resignation of former leader Meg Lees and the decision of her colleague Andrew Murray to become a “Democrat in exile” – still in the party but not attending party meetings of Democrats senators.
		Lees said she did not want to waste energy fighting internal party disciplinary charges over her criticism of the party’s leadership and political strategy of inflexible opposition to the federal government’s more controversial policies.
		Beleaguered leader Natasha Stott Despoja was in London on leave at the time of Lees’ resignation but flew back to Australia to try to handle the crisis.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/3F2F0F99CDE72D5FCA256C01000B0075 (840 words)

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		The party was formed by Senator Meg Lees, the former leader of the
		She resigned from the Democrats in July 2002 after having been deposed as the party's leader in April 2001.
		At the 2004 federal election Lees sought re-election to the Australian Senate.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Australian_Progressive_Alliance (355 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lees Meg
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lees Meg
		South Australian Senator Meg Lees took over the party leadership and, following the 1998 federal elections, the returned Liberal-National coalition...
		Lee, Robert E(dward) (1807-1870), brilliant Confederate general, whose military genius was probably the greatest single factor in keeping the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Lees_Meg.html (92 words)

	The Guardian
		by Peter Mac Former leader of the Democrats, Senator Meg Lees, gave the Howard Government the vote it needed to introduce the Goods and Services Tax and the Workplace Relations Act And now the good Senator is advocating the sale of the rest of Telstra in order to fund works to conserve the environment.
		And Senator Meg Lees is not the only Democrat showing signs of breaking ranks with their Party on the Telstra issue.
		Senator Aden Ridgeway has also indicated he might support the Bill, stating equivocally that "any party that decides to lay their policies in concrete would have to be fools".
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve5/1100telstra.html (900 words)

	Democrats Leader Natasha Stott Despoja
		It's a difficult, disappointing time for Meg, but I'm so pleased to hear that she's pledged her support to the new leadership team and to the party.
		So, Meg Lees or myself or Andrew Murray or anyone else in the party room is just one vote.
		STOTT DESPOJA: I wouldn't run then, no. I didn't think I was ready and I discussed it with Meg Lees and she was happy and confident of running.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_788.asp (3145 words)

	Bulletin - Aden Ridgeway - Democrats' deputy leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In exchange for a range of “guarantees” on environmental funding, former leader Meg Lees supported the government’s GST legislation.
		But, as we all know, she got it in the neck from her own members, who’ve since switched their support to the Stott Despoja-Ridgeway team – one which is all but powerless to effect change on taxation, other than at the periphery.
		On one reading of the Senate outcome at the 2001 election, the gloss of the dream team won’t be enough to prevent them losing a spot in Western Australia to the Greens, with the possibility of the final quota in Queensland, depending on preferences, going to One Nation.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/printing/2FC9E3376368BE38CA256A550082C77A (1960 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, some people from the centre (including former leader Meg Lees) quit the Democrats and formed the Progessive Alliance.
		Their only senator (Meg Lees) is standing for a senate seat in South Australian, and while she has a chance -- I expect her to lose her seat and the party to die.
		First, they have a decent chance at beating Meg Lees for the South Australian seat, where the Democrats have traditionally had high levels of support.
	www.libertarian.org.au /blog/readArticle.jsp?articleID=907270 (878 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots Announcement with Senator Meg Lees Mount Barker, South Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Senator Lees and I are jointly announcing a Government initiative which is a commitment of $36 million to provide a support for programmes to help what we call biodiversity hotspots around Australia where there is a threat to habitat, threat to species around Australia.
		And Senator Lees has been advocating this programme with me for some time, and we had some lengthy discussions a little while ago and the Government has decided to allocate an additional sum of $36 million.
		But I say that with a heavy trepidation that a lot of people who might be disposed to support her would disagree with the idea that I should give her a reference, but I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t say what I’ve just said.
	www.pm.gov.au /News/Speeches/speech1087.html (1465 words)

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