For the Australians:
We all know about the elections...
Who do you prefer for our Prime Minister, John Howard or Mark Lathom? Your opinions on each?
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For the Australians:
We all know about the elections...
Who do you prefer for our Prime Minister, John Howard or Mark Lathom? Your opinions on each?
Elections in Australia...?
I thought the candidates had a pub brawl and the looser became prime minister; as for the winner, he gets free Beer until the next election.
That might just work...Quote:
Originally Posted by Besimudo
Howard's not my favourite, but fortunately Australia's foreign policy is less, uh, 'forthright' than that of the US, and the candidates' domestic policies are less polarised than in some other countries... so really, the outcome of the elections hopefully won't change anything too much. Just enough to satisfy the demands of the majority in certain areas, without significantly prejudicing those who disagree.
I am not too familiar with the Australian politics. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Fairly standard Westminster (English-style) system. Bicameral (two Houses, an upper and lower one). The Prime Minister is the head of the executive, which is also a part of the legislature. People vote for whichever party they want to become the government; the winning party's leader becomes PM. Other parties get seats in the Houses by winning a certain share of the vote in each state.Quote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
...I live in New Zealand, where it's slightly different, but I think that's roughly how it goes. I'm certain others will correct any errors I've made.
Hehe. Good times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Besimudo
~~~FreaQ
I can't vote. =( I turn 18 in Febraury, but it'd be alright to vote I think.
I'd be voting for Howard, however, I just don't like Lathem and he just comes across as a REALLY bad leader and keeps repeating himself - such a bore. Howard has done fine for us, and I believe he'd do an even better job in the years to come, if he were elected. So yeah. =)
Labor :down:
Liberal :up:
GO ON ROVE LIVE!!~
You suck. Now it's too late.
Yea he never went on Rove. And Rove tried so hard to :(
Howard's done a pretty good job. I'm pretty sure he'll win this coming election 'cause the polls show that he's got a pretty good lead on Latham. But something debatable is whether a vote for Howard is really a vote for Costello.
OOC: Hehe. Rove's What The's were awesome tonight..hehe. Joan Lust.
John Howard is a snivelling little weasel and an embarassment to all Australians. Just sent in my postal vote. Go Latham!
Except my division is a safe Liberal seat - phooey. :mad:
WHY DIDNT HOWARD CALL ROVE? all rove wanted was a call!!
alot of emphasis is put on interest rates which does concern me atm...i hear Latham is doin something about uni fees which is good! but im 17 so i cant vote yet....theres some of talk about Latham ruining the relationship between Australia and America which is weird...
lol the greens want to legalise marijuana(sp?)......weird!?
so right now i have no clue who should win....
It's obvious who should win this election. Australia, as one civilized human being to another, I implore you, vote green!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by *ETERNAL FANTASY*
Yes, but the moment marijuana is legalised, the enforcement branch will then be able to test for the drug - as is the case for alcohol.
I would, however, push for decriminalisation of this substance.
Howard shall be one of the losers in the hereafter :love: :love: :love:
I'd vote for the Greens if I was old enough. They're like hippies to me. :p
And John Howard didn't go on Rove Live, but Mark Latham did...
http://www.rove.com.au/pics/s2004-e33/whatthe/01.jpg
Did you guys hear about a minor party called the Christian Leadership party or something like that!? They wanted lesbians to be burnt at the steake!.....im serious and since the greens put Labour as First preference Howard was angry he said something like ...you mught as well vote for the Christian Leadership party than the greens.....
Just to let u know if greens put Labour in 1st preference then any vote that goes to the greens also contributes to labours vote....i think thats how it works...someone told me that!! correct me if im wrong!!
No, the way it works is that you can vote in two ways. Either you can number all of the candidates running (for my division there were 65!) in order of preference, or you can adopt a party 'ticket', so that you adopt that party's order of preference. I personally wasn't going to research 65 different candidates running from 13 or so different parties, so I adopted my preferred party's ticket.
EDIT// Mark Latham called John Howard an 'arselicker' on radio. If he hadn't already received my vote, he'd have just won it. :love:
Liberal got in :) I really didn't want Mark Lathom as our Prime Minister, so I to me its all good now we have John Howard again.
I spoke to a friend about this, and her view was that because of what Howards actions were against the war on terrorism (i.e. War in Iraq) that she thinks he is the devil and will vote against him. Is that naive or just passion?
Anyways, I am glad that Howard is Prime Minister again. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Wasn't Lathem going to really screw up the HECS system for university as well? That would have been bad for me, as I'm finishing up high school in around a week and a half.
Oh well. It could be worse. At least he's not George Bush...
But this does make me slightly less inclined to move back to Australia in the near future.