So, it's August 21st. Until 3 months ago I was a swinging voter. Now I am not. Why? Because of the comments of certain forum members (not necessarily here). As a former fee paying member of the Liberal Party of Australia, I now understand why I am no longer one.
Game on for winter election
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confirmed Australians will go to the polls on August 21.
In her first press conference of the campaign, Ms Gillard repeated the message she has been pushing since she became Prime Minister – that she wants to take Australia forward.
Ms Gillard has been in the top job for less than a month after the overthrow of Kevin Rudd, who won the 2007 election for Labor.
Her opponent, Tony Abbott, is also a relatively new leader having ousted Malcolm Turnbull as Coalition leader late last year. Both are seeking the support of the Australian people for the first time.
I'd keep it simple if I were voting and look first at the policies that have remained unchanged on both ends and the whole Unions vs. Greedy Employers is high on my list. I think anyone who feels Unions are a bad idea should be forced to go live and work in the US and just overall observe how lack of socialism permeates the attitude of society at large all the way down to the level of birthing The Jerry Springer show and that's not at all meant to be so much a joke. What gets me the most about Australia though, is that it isn't a republic but people treat it like it is when they go to the polls. The ideal is that people vote for a candidate and leave the rest to parliament, but instead you turn on the TV and hear outrage about Gillard taking over in the way of "I didn't vote for her", yet I'm pretty certain that only a small minority of people voted for either her or Rudd. I feel like if I was voting, and its in my signature, that I'd vote for the Greens just in simple hopes of having a better diversity in parliament. I haven't even agreed with a majority of their policies that I know of, though some I do. I'd just sort of like to see some balance and see government have a wild card that probably can only force it in whats a more noble direction.
That's another thing. Everyone is terribly concerned about things going right or wrong. In the end, things will at some point go wrong, and if they're going to go wrong I'd much rather it be for reasons that were right... or more accurately, I doubt the Greens or other parties will ever get enough seats to do anything more than throw tiny wrenches into processes and force a few more compromises, and I see compromises as good things because runaway train governments always seem to be bad things.
My personal politics in a nutshell: "The Howard government was taking us up the same ally that the US has already gone, and the only thing up there is a bunch of crack dealers with occasional drive by shootings and cops that long ago lost the plot and turned into community arseholes regardless of who they deal with." However, my personal politics have no bearing on the concept that we might be a lot better off if we were forced to compromise more often. If you think about it, early democracies were nothing more than a way to compromise.
I'd like to see a government where everyone lived together in the same house like in Big Brother, only without Big Brother telling them what to do. I want to see parliament brawls and riots like they had in Taiwan. I want to see parliament when there isn't a moderator sitting in a high chair. I want to see people get smacked with chairs. There should be cage fighting involved in government.
I've gone into the ludicrous obviously, and some of what I've said I know a lot of people will disagree with, but some of it has merit... just like anyone else.
Yes Paula...I'm having to think hard and read so much more than I have ever done before, with this election.
If only I could trust what the politician say
I agree, Candy, its so much more than if you like a certain candidate or not, Personally I do not like Gillard or Abbott so their personalities wont come into it. Never trust a politician, they are in the same boat as a used car salesman........ I will go with my gut instinct and vote the right way as I have all my life.........
So is it true. Political reporters are saying that it is the PUBLIC that are interested in HOW Kevin was removed. Frankly I DON'T CARE.
I just want to know POLICIES. I don't care whether Tony seems to like Spandex or Julia needs her roots done. I think the reporters are trying to create news rather than report it (just as they did with naming of Election Day). I mean how does this change who I am going to vote for because Julia decided Sunday or Wednesday (or whatever).
How BORING is it going to be for 5 weeks
You can't blow up the world, that's where I keep my stuff (The Tic)
Either way it's a bad choice It was last election too though.. I want someone progressive (eg legalise gay marriage, abortion), someone who won't waste money on stupid ETS and other "climate change" related things. I want someone who doesn't come across as pathetic like Rudd, someone more quickwitted and open than Julia, someone not as conservative as Abbott. The Greens are the worst party and if they're siding with Labor I'd be inclined to vote Liberal. But ergh, Liberal.
Either way it's a bad choice It was last election too though.. I want someone progressive (eg legalise gay marriage, abortion), someone who won't waste money on stupid ETS and other "climate change" related things. I want someone who doesn't come across as pathetic like Rudd, someone more quickwitted and open than Julia, someone not as conservative as Abbott. The Greens are the worst party and if they're siding with Labor I'd be inclined to vote Liberal. But ergh, Liberal.
Just like last Federal election Aqua... Howard and Costello were voted out.
Somewhat, a lot of people were duped by Dudd's show tricks rather than voting against the previous government, when it comes to hypnotics he's on a similar level to The Master!
"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained. " The Doctor
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