Australian Election: Who to vote for? News.com.au answers...

http://www.news.com.au/features/federal ... 5903082647

If you're a foreigner just enter 3000 as your post code.

It told me I should vote the Greens, then listed their policies which seemingly went against absolutely everything I said in the quiz especially the crap about the environment. Gillard was second and Abbott a distant third.

I had 53% for the Greens, which is about right. Maybe slightly lower than I would have thought. 32% for the Ranga and 6% for Budgie Smuggler. Donkey vote was also about 6%

I was also surprised that only 60% of my electorate is religious. It feels way higher than that most of the time

46% Greens, 29% Labor, 17% Donkey Vote, 6% Coalition, which is funny as I don't think much of the Greens (but then I suppose I don't have anything flattering to say about any political party). Their policies go against a few of my answers as well, so perhaps it's a case of "You don't like the major parties enough to vote for them, might as well throw your vote away in the preferential system."

48% Donkey Vote
23% Green
14% Coalition
12% Labor

30% Labor, 30% Coalition, 28% Green, 12% Donkey

So yes, I am no closer to deciding who to throw my vote away on. I am in a very safe Labor seat so my vote doesn't matter anyways

You could always join me in a post-election coup. I'm afraid I've already called Supreme Ruler, but I could make you Secretary of Awesome or something.

No Sex Party in this quiz? Thats a shame...

Im 44% donkey apparently.
Strange, thought it was closer to 99... (I count sex party as donkey vote, because unfortunately people are idiots and will vote for family first, first.)

And how the fuck is there a quiz about election without the internet filter being a part of it?

http://www.sexparty.org.au/index.php/vi ... on-sunrise

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If only all campaign ads were this entertaining.

45% Labor
42% Greens
5% Liberal

And how the fuck is there a quiz about election without the internet filter being a part of it?

Because the filter won't mean much when we shut the entire thing down: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article ... 58,00.html

Who's voted????

And who got a free sausage? BECAUSE I FUCKING DIDN'T.

I voted, but the sausage sizzle wasn't free. I was tempted to pay the $2.50 because as always it was an inviting aroma but I figured I'd wait for lunch. I also declined all the propaganda on the way in, as is my custom.

Here's a question, did anyone fill out all the boxes for the Senate? I can never be bothered, one above the line for me.

I actually did. Because I wanted the Secular Party to appear a bit higher than my Greens preferences would have allowed. I still voted party by party, though. Once I'd voted Greens-Secular-Labour first, and put Family First last, I pretty much just donkeyed in the other preferences. Took about 10 minutes.

EDIT: Both of my major party candidates were at my polling both as well. Jason Wood (the Liberal guy and sitting member: who is about 5'4.) and Laura Smythe (from Labour, who is about 6'2") Jason Wood was still much creepier though.

How long does it usually take before there's a result projection?

Here's a question, did anyone fill out all the boxes for the Senate? I can never be bothered, one above the line for me.

I will when I get around to voting later this afternoon.

How long does it usually take before there's a result projection?

Usually around 8 p.m. Australian Eastern time. That's what it was last time anyway. Should be much closer this time around though. So it will probably be later.

i fucking hate the greens and facebook is shitting me with all the dumb slags who have NO FUCKING IDEA thinking theyre voting for the environment by voting for the greens.
i mean ffs some girl posted something about letting in all boat people to Australia like there would be no repercussions. this girl has a fucking kid and is allowed to vote? that is why this world is going to shit... we're all doomed. DOOMED I TELLS YA


KAAAAHHHNNNNNN

I didn't fill in any ballots, just played FIFA. I vote GOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

The only person enjoying a sausage sizzle tonight will be Bob Brown after Greens double their vote from last election (I gave them worst preference, even below Family First ).

So yep, I skipped the sausage sizzle with their cheap arse 60% beef sausages, went to supermarket, got some real Angus ones & showed them how it was done. Time to play some FIFA.

I was looking at the site, and they had a little summary thing for each parties position and saw this for incumbent PM Gillard:

Julia Gillard wants 150 ordinary Australians to decide the nation's climate change response.

I don't even need to go any further do I? What a stupid idea.

But since I'm here:

Labor rolled out $42 billion in handouts, including those $900 payments to nearly all of us. But there was also heavy spending on education building and IT programs. (Details on other spending can be found in the other policy areas above.)

It sent us into a massive deficit - the Budget went from a $20 billion surplus to more than $50 billion in the red. But it is also credited with keeping Australia out of recession, which helped save jobs.

The Government says few other countries were spared and their spending was to thank. In his farewell speech, Kevin Rudd listed it among his proudest moments.

What a bunch of idiots.

I like the summary for what Gillard says on the filter:

Says books and films are banned, so why not the web?

We're totalitarian assholes on other content, why not all of it!

Regarding paternity leave:

Under Labor’s plan: you’ll get 18 weeks at the minimum wage, or about $540 a week. But your boss would be able to add a little more, or you could take annual leave to get up to the six-month mark.

You must have worked about one day a week in 10 of the last 13 months to qualify.

That requirement doesn't seem so low it's laughable to anyone else right?

Under the Coalition’s "official" parental leave plan: you’ll get your current wage for 26 weeks, up to a cap of $75,000 (or half an annual wage of $150,000).

During the campaign so far, Tony Abbott has pledged to restore indexation of the rebate, costing $89m overall, or giving about $300 a year more per child to families.

And yet they're/he's bitching (rightly) about the deficit?

He once said a government-funded paid parental leave scheme would only happen “over my dead body”, but says he changed his mind after hearing from friends how hard they were finding it to make ends meet without one.

He has also said his daughters' generation should not have to struggle with work and family choices like their mothers did.

So he's an idiot too.

Labor went to the last election promising to build 260 more centres, but axed that plan with only about 30 finished.

They now say there’s no longer such a demand for places and existing centres can meet the need.

This warms my heart.

Now I'm off to wiki what the fuck super is! Enjoy my comments on your just as dysfunctional but less destructive political system until I return.

I was looking at the site, and they had a little summary thing for each parties position and saw this for incumbent PM Gillard:

Julia Gillard wants 150 ordinary Australians to decide the nation's climate change response.

I don't even need to go any further do I? What a stupid idea.

Tony Abbott wants to decide, over the phone from the other side of the country, which asylum-seeking boats to accept and which to turn around. Apparently qualifications are a foreign concept to politicians.

I don't think that's anywhere near as absurd.

A navy can hold a boat for extended periods of time, during which a government could verify asylum claims. I think it's stupid, but it's not completely absurd.

Gillard's suggestion is that 150 random people can save the planet from the apocalypse by coming up with a "perfect" policy to do so.

EDIT: Just to point out how her claim should be talked about 24/7 about how fucking stupid it is.

Labor currently sits 115 people in the two chambers. There are 226 people total in Parliament. Not to mention how many other people assist them in crafting and carrying out legislation. Those 226 people are culled from the population as the "best" as chosen by the population as a whole. She is LITERALLY claiming that those 226+ people cannot figure out how to stop the apocalypse, but 150 random people are qualified enough to decide the best manner in which to stop said apocalypse.

If they are unqualified to stop the apocalypse, how can they be qualified enough to do ANYTHING? If they cannot figure out how to save the entire planet without asking some random people, how can they figure out anything? Proper rate on the miner's tax? On the corporate tax? How can they know? These things are nowhere near as important as THE END OF THE WORLD!

Making a separate post for this as it's a different topic, I looked into Super. Wiki suggests it is closer to IRA and 401k than our Ponzi Scheme though it is still forced? It's a lower tax rate too. (Other than that...I understood the UK debates I watched, I can't figure out Aussie politico language.)

Like Canada's (which I sadly have to say is better than most) it also appears to be solvent, and from what I understand it could actually BE solvent long term. Although it's only been around for 20ish years so you can't really make that judgement. Canada's which has been around longer is actually, from what I can tell, closer to that evil Bush's ideal Social Security Reform than anywhere else in the world which is somewhat amusing. I hear a lot about their health care, almost nothing about this.

Anyway, regarding my ongoing Aussie political education (I read every single Wiki article about your past elections and major party leaders sometime last year) I have these two points to offer as to American superiority:
1. We've never had a President swim out to sea and disappear.
2. When we go down in a few years, we're taking you and the rest of the Western (at least!) world with us.

That's why we need Kevin Rudd back. At least when the US self destructs he can use his Mandarin to suck up to the Chinese and bail us out.

Out of everything I read on news.com.au that is the most sensible reason to elect anyone they talked about. I still can't figure out why you guys loved him and suddenly bailed even the WIki explanation makes no sense.

Was it the shitty campaign promises? Why are Rudd, Brown and Obama suddenly being held to their promises?