Oh, YAY! Australia goes to tthe polls in 5 weeks.

[warrior queen]

All of us Aussies will be spending the next five weeks in a state of excited anticipation of this great event!











Not.


We have a choice between bad, and worse.
This is going to be a loooooong month + of non-stop campaigning

I may forget Qld as an option and just move out of Oz totally.
Vanuatu is looking good!

 

[eyer]

All of us Aussies will be spending the next five weeks in a state of excited anticipation of this great event!











Not.

Guess what?

No one outside of the barren wasteland you squat in cares at all.

We have a choice between bad, and worse.
This is going to be a loooooong month + of non-stop campaigning

I may forget Qld as an option and just move out of Oz totally.
Vanuatu is looking good!

Guess what?

 

[girlsmiley]

I may forget Qld as an option and just move out of Oz totally.
Vanuatu is looking good!

I'm sending kissinggurl a PM. I'm thinking sunshine, beach, good music.

All the stuff I'm used to, just on the other side of the world. *nods*

 

[warrior queen]

Guess what?

No one outside of the barren wasteland you squat in cares at all.



Guess what?

Guess what?
This 'barren wasteland' is one of only 8 countries that has maintained it's AAA credit rating.
What's yours again?

 

[warrior queen]

I'm sending kissinggurl a PM. I'm thinking sunshine, beach, good music.

All the stuff I'm used to, just on the other side of the world. *nods*

Right now I could do with some sunshine.
It's been raining and/or cloudy and cold for weeks!

Last voting day it was raining too. I really hope it's not this time.
The polling line was all the way out the door and into the street!

 

[WeedSmoke420]

sweet..

 

[Aquagal]

Where were you moving to again? Would this apply there also? Move quickly!

 

[warrior queen]

Where were you moving to again? Would this apply there also? Move quickly!

The family wants us to move to QLD.
But if Abbott wins, I want to get the hell out of Oz completely.
But I will probably do neither..... I have too much invested here.

 

[KingOrfeo]

So, who are the candidates? What are these bad and worse choices?

 

[warrior queen]

So, who are the candidates? What are these bad and worse choices?

Kevin Rudd - a pretty-boy who has policies but can't seem to manage his own political party.
Tony Abbott - the ugly-duckling who has his party in line but doesn't appear to have any policies.

We have other choices, but because of preferential voting, any vote for them goes to one of these two.

I may vote for the new wikileaks party.... at least they don't have secrets!

 

[eyer]

Guess what?
This 'barren wasteland' is one of only 8 countries that has maintained it's AAA credit rating.
What's yours again?

"credit rating"?

Too friggin' funny.

It's a wonder with such an outstanding credit rating, the Queen's brig can't manage any more than its 7+% currency share in the world's monetary affairs...

...compared to America's 62+%.

But I digress...

...so let's get back to your topic and my point:

How practically interested is the world in Australian politics...

...compared to America's?

The answer, comparably speaking of course, is:

ZILCH.

Deal with it...

...wanker.

 

[warrior queen]

"credit rating"?

Too friggin' funny.

It's a wonder with such an outstanding credit rating, the Queen's brig can't manage any more than its 7+% currency share in the world's monetary affairs...

...compared to America's 62+%.

But I digress...

...so let's get back to your topic and my point:

How practically interested is the world in Australian politics...

...compared to America's?

The answer, comparably speaking of course, is:

ZILCH.

Deal with it...

...wanker.

There's a lot wrong with both countries.... but right now, I know which one I'd rather be in!

 

[girlsmiley]

Guess what?
This 'barren wasteland' is one of only 8 countries that has maintained it's AAA credit rating.
What's yours again?

How do you not have that thing on ignore?

He's totally humping your leg.

Right now I could do with some sunshine.
It's been raining and/or cloudy and cold for weeks!

Last voting day it was raining too. I really hope it's not this time.
The polling line was all the way out the door and into the street!

It's been sunny here. Got a bit sunburnt yesterday.

 

[eyer]

There's a lot wrong with both countries.... but right now, I know which one I'd rather be in!

Outstanding waffling...

...way better option than addressing the question truthfully.

How do you not have that thing on ignore?

Do you ever keep that playgrounder nose of yours...

...unbrown?

 

[warrior queen]

How do you not have that thing on ignore?

He's totally humping your leg.



It's been sunny here. Got a bit sunburnt yesterday.

I did have... but I cleared my lists some time ago.
He's harmless. A bit like a dotty uncle who sits in the corner spouting useless sentences every so often at family gatherings

I'm jealous - not of the sunburn, of the sunshine!

 

[warrior queen]

Outstanding waffling...

...way better option than addressing the question truthfully.

There was an actual question in there?
Well fuck me sideways - I totes missed it!

 

[eyer]

There was an actual question in there?
Well fuck me sideways - I totes missed it!

Yeah - it was even bolded...

...but, then again:

Since about my mid-30's, I haven't told a lie.... not even a teensy weensy one.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=42388123&postcount=57

 

[warrior queen]

Yeah - it was even bolded...

...but, then again:

You're cute when you don't get your own way

 

[eyer]

You're cute when you don't get your own way

Awww...

...just as relevant to your thread as Australian politics is to the rest of the world.

 

[warrior queen]

Awww...

...just as relevant to your thread as Australian politics is to the rest of the world.

I think it's totally awesome how you're so patriotic that you sincerely believe that your country is the only one that matters on the entire planet!
Really, I admire that.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Kevin Rudd - a pretty-boy who has policies but can't seem to manage his own political party.
Tony Abbott - the ugly-duckling who has his party in line but doesn't appear to have any policies.

Wait, this is the pretty-boy and this is the ugly duckling?

Your people have odd esthetic standards.

 

[warrior queen]

Wait, this is the pretty-boy and this is the ugly duckling?

Your people have odd esthetic standards.

In this case those terms have less to do with looks, and more to do with personality.
Rudd is a social butterfly - he tweets, uses fb, and generally connects with the Aussie perception of the 'underdog'.
Abbott, otoh, is seen as socially inept as well as mysogynistic and out-of-touch.
Hope that clarifies things.

 

[oggbashan]

No problems with registration or ID for Australian voters.

Australia enforces compulsory voting. Compulsory voting at referendums was considered when a referendum was proposed in 1915, but, as the referendum was never held, the idea was put on hold.

The immediate impetus for compulsory voting at the federal level was the low voter turnout (59.38 percent) at the 1922 federal election. However, compulsory voting was not on the platform of either the Stanley Bruce-led Nationalist/Country party coalition government or the Matthew Charlton-led Labor opposition. The actual initiative for change was made by Herbert Payne, a backbench Tasmanian senator from the Nationalists who introduced a private member's bill in the Senate, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924, on 16 July 1924. Senator Payne's bill was passed with little debate (the House of Representatives agreed to it in less than an hour), and in neither house was a division required, hence no votes were recorded against the bill. It received Royal Assent on 31 July 1924. The 1925 federal election was the first to be held under compulsory voting; the turnout figure climbed to 91.4 per cent, an increase of 32 percentage points on the previous election.

Voting is compulsory both at federal elections and at elections for the state and territory legislatures. In the states of South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia voting at local elections is not compulsory. About 5% of enrolled voters fail to vote at most elections. People in this situation are asked to explain their failure to vote. If no satisfactory reason is provided (for example, illness or religious prohibition), a $20 fine is imposed, and failure to pay the fine may result in a court hearing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_electoral_system

 

[warrior queen]

Even with compulsory voting, there's always the option to cast an invalid vote.

 

[oggbashan]

Even with compulsory voting, there's always the option to cast an invalid vote.

But not to be disenfranchised by a state legislature's unusual voting systems.