(November 2, 2012 at 7:57 am)frankiej Wrote: In Australia, what do you do when there is no party you want to vote for? Can you just hand in an empty ballot?

Yes you can, it's not illegal to (despite what some people think), and they can't tell you otherwise. You only have to put your ballot paper in the box, if it's blank that's not your problem. That said, being required to vote is a very small burdon on citizens in the first place, so why would you want to waste your voice by not voting?

I always vote, because of the countries where you can't vote.


The website for the Australian sex party


http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&...IRPZyC7wBg


They've got my vote.

(November 4, 2012 at 1:08 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I always vote, because of the countries where you can't vote.


The website for the Australian sex party


http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&...IRPZyC7wBg


They've got my vote.

Only in Australia would a political party dare call itself the Sex Party. Although I have to admit I am not a fan of the Sex Party, they seem like a single issue party to me. Also issues like the Censorship of sexually explicit material or banning prostitution don't effect my life at all to be honest.

Quote:Only in Australia would a political party dare call itself the Sex Party.

That's because we hate our politicians and have no regard for them... ESPECIALLY when they fail to manage the country's economy.

Politicians are down there with used car salesmen. I like the SEX Party but that doesn't mean I would vote for them blindly.

(November 5, 2012 at 6:50 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: That's because we hate our politicians and have no regard for them... ESPECIALLY when they fail to manage the country's economy.

That's why I'm a member of the Liberal Party! Because I can't stand the way Labor thinks money grows on trees and fucks up our economy, racking up debt every time they get in power. When was the last time they delivered a balanced budget? Nobody remembers!

(November 5, 2012 at 6:50 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

Quote:Only in Australia would a political party dare call itself the Sex Party.

That's because we hate our politicians and have no regard for them... ESPECIALLY when they fail to manage the country's economy.

Politicians are down there with used car salesmen. I like the SEX Party but that doesn't mean I would vote for them blindly.

Compared to other western nations, Australia has been doing fairly well economically. We managed to avoid a recession in 2008-09, which even New Zealand did not. Maybe that is because rapidly developing China has a huge demand for Australian minerals.

However our banks did not experience a sub-prime mortgage crisis like those in the United States and the United Kingdom do. I would credit much better regulation of our banking system here.

Also because of the Global Financial Crisis, tax revenue from corporations collapsed. Even if the Rudd-Gillard government had been good fiscal managers, the budget would have still gone into deficit (though not as much as it has). Although I don’t see deficits and debt as necessarily a bad thing, there can be too much of it. However Australia's public sector debt (which was 21% of GDP in 2010) is very low by International Standards, countries like the United States have public sector debt of over 100% of GDP.

The impression I get of the public figures who believe our public sector is burdensome and our public spending is out of control are those who believe government spending should be much lower than present. Also they would believe that Medicare should be replaced by compulsory health savings accounts.

I do admit that the Rudd-Gillard government (along with State governments of both parties) have not spent and borrowed terribly wisely and there is government spending that can be cut. However our politicians I don’t believe they are as awful as a lot of people in this country believe they are.

(November 5, 2012 at 6:50 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

Quote:Only in Australia would a political party dare call itself the Sex Party.

That's because we hate our politicians and have no regard for them... ESPECIALLY when they fail to manage the country's economy.

Politicians are down there with used car salesmen. I like the SEX Party but that doesn't mean I would vote for them blindly.

Compared to politicians, used car salesmen are held in high esteem.

Politicians fall on the scale somewhere between loan sharks and lawyers.

These aren't liberals, or labourists, or greenists, or happygoluckyists or independetittlywinkliests OR whatever bullshit their calling themselves downunder. These are Nazi's

............Why do nazis change their name all the time?

Quote:LaRouche established contacts with Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby and elements of the Ku Klux Klan in 1974. Frank Donner and Randall Rothenberg wrote that he made successful overtures to the Liberty Lobby and George Wallace's American Independent Party, adding that the "racist" policies of LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party endeared it to members of the Ku Klux Klan. George Michael, in Willis Carto and the American Far Right, says that LaRouche shared with the Liberty Lobby's Willis Carto an antipathy towards the Rockefeller family. The Liberty Lobby defended its alliance with LaRouche by saying the U.S. Labor Party had been able to "confuse, disorient, and disunify the Left".

(November 6, 2012 at 9:13 pm)cratehorus Wrote: These aren't liberals, or labourists, or greenists, or happygoluckyists or independetittlywinkliests OR whatever bullshit their calling themselves downunder. These are Nazi's

............Why do nazis change their name all the time?

This happens when you label everyone that disagrees with you a Nazi. Go ask Glenn Beck, he'll tell you.

(November 6, 2012 at 9:19 pm)cato123 Wrote: This happens when you label everyone that disagrees with you a Nazi. Go ask Glenn Beck, he'll tell you.

this is what happens when you've been brainwashed into thinking nazis and communists are the same thing, let me guess your in one of these cults too? right? who's your cult leader? Willis Carto maybe Don Black?