That white paper is ridiculous. First you need to find who you want to vote for, then put those you want last, then there’s that middle area of who’s who.
Also it shouldn’t be allowed to have so many minor parties with similar names. Purely there to confuse people. Also anyone with a name in their party like ‘pauline hansons one nation party’ goes lower in the ranking.
And people, why not have an ID out for the person signing you in? Saves them and you so much time!
I approve of this concept.
Any chance we could we extend that to anyone who voted for Abetz, Bernadi, Rudd, Latham, Rhiannon, Abbott, Thomson , Lambie etc?
Yep, I know. Just having an investigation threatened was enough to make her retreat.
Surprised that anything other than Vietnamese is being spoken.
Give them a chance mate, they haven’t been voted in yet.
Much more mixed than most people think.
When I was going to school in the area our neighbours were Greek, Sri Lankan, Vietnamese, Cambodian, English, Australian and Polish.
Loved when you are small and you go to neighbours homes and you’re always offered nice food to eat!
Nah nah nah nah nah
What’s happening is that folks within the LNP are totally vetting their candidate’s online history, and looking at it and going “looks alright to me”
Lot of this going on:
How far did you get before you were done with the nutbars? Into the 30s at least, right?
Anyone I personally disagree with, yes.
That’s democracy.
One man, one vote.
And I’m the one man.
Brilliant!
Edit: thanks to @theDJR for tidying up quoting errors.
The country would be better off without QLD
For the last 50 years at least they have been getting a disproportionate share of Federal monies.
They have effectively been subsidised by Victoria and WA. The argument has been that VIC is small and rich, so it should help out the redneck state as well as the mendicants (Was, SA, NT). NSW is NSW so they keep all their money, no questions asked about them helping out anyone. But there is no rationale that WA with its bigger landmass and hence more need for infrastructure should be subsidising QLD with its larger population. But still WA is swindled to the tunes of billions on its GST share.
Maybe VIC and WA should secede and form their own country - at least we would have the best footy teams.
Don’t think VIC could afford it, in the background they have bloated their expense item, adding billions over recent years
Going to be some nasty deficit in the coming years, consider 40% of income is tied to property taxes and the slow down is going to sting
Thanks DT
VIC could afford it, especially if billions of their $$$ weren’t being siphoned off to build up infrastructure in QLD, and support mendicant jurisdictions elsewhere.
I am really surprised that with your extreme right views you would not be 100% behind this thought experiment.
Um, why? Why wouldn’t you vote in order of preference, and when you run out of parties you actually want to give votes to, just stop (as long as you ticked at least 12). Why would you be counting backwards?
I suspect the logic is you concentrate more when counting backwards.
If that’s the logic then the proper thing to do is to number from top AND bottom – and if your numbers don’t meet in the middle…
The rules allow a vote to be counted provided that the first six consecutive numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. If you omit or repeat a number, the ballot will still be counted. So a ballot that has the preferences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 would be formal – but only preferences one to nine would count.
So that’s comforting.
Doesn’t count but demonstrates disdain and distaste for the dross that are competing.
Counting backwards is a cognitive test, the classic being subtracting 7 from 100. The tester usually calls it quits when it hits the forties.
My dad had to do it when the Council sent someone around to see if he needed home help after coming out of hospital at 92 with pneumonia. She gave up because he went too fast for her.
It’s funny growing up in a diverse community as part of a multigenerational Aussie. You get fed amazing things by the other kid’s mums. When you bring your friends over there’s a biscuit barrel with Arnott’s favorites in it and “there’s water in the tap.”