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Australian election thoughts
#11
RE: Australian election thoughts
W.A preferences

http://www.aec.gov.au/election/wa/gvt.htm#i
or http://www.theguardian.com/world/interac...very-party (makes it easier to see but Victoria seems broken)

The sex party's preferences
Sex party 1/2:
...
Greens at 31,32,33
Labor at 34,35,36,37
nationals 40,41
Liberals 42.43.44.45.46.47

No thanks.

That's where your vote ends up, the greens, if not the greens, labor.

Im voting LDP, so my preferences hit a lot of minor parties, including the sex party early on at 7,8 (most minor parties are doing that, preferencing nearly all the other minor parties before the big guys) before hitting the nationals/liberals, I'm not letting my vote get anywhere near Krudd.
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#12
RE: Australian election thoughts
What we need to do is abolish above the line voting in senate elections and have people only need to number 6 or 12 candidates minimum below the line. It would get rid of situations where people like Stephen Fielding got elected to the senate on only 2% of vote. The party which Stephen Fielding represents Family First could get a senate elected in Victoria again at this election.

Both the Tasmanian House of Assembly and ACT Legislative Assembly, have the voting system I would be proposing for the senate. Although they also Robson Rotation of ballot papers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robson_Rotation

(September 4, 2013 at 7:27 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: W.A preferences

http://www.aec.gov.au/election/wa/gvt.htm#i
or http://www.theguardian.com/world/interac...very-party (makes it easier to see but Victoria seems broken)

The sex party's preferences
Sex party 1/2:
...
Greens at 31,32,33
Labor at 34,35,36,37
nationals 40,41
Liberals 42.43.44.45.46.47

No thanks.

That's where your vote ends up, the greens, if not the greens, labor.

Im voting LDP, so my preferences hit a lot of minor parties, including the sex party early on at 7,8 (most minor parties are doing that, preferencing nearly all the other minor parties before the big guys) before hitting the nationals/liberals, I'm not letting my vote get anywhere near Krudd.
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#13
RE: Australian election thoughts
(September 4, 2013 at 10:19 am)LastPoet Wrote: I'll vote for the sex party... Oh wait, I'm not australian. Big Grin

ETA: I know Australia is a place, because I've sent a bottle of wine there and got consumed. QE-fucking-D.

And it was delicious

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#14
RE: Australian election thoughts
Yeah Zen. I did an intership on that farm, had the oportunity to analise chemichally the whole process and to flavour it. Chemically is a medium acidity wine chemically iinert as the others, with a powerfull 15% alcohol. That is very rough for a wine, but it has the body of what we call here an "alentejo wine", thus masking the alcohol content with flavour nicely.

TL;DR: Drink it Big Grin
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#15
RE: Australian election thoughts
Would you consider teaching your expertise to Aussies?

Oh and vote for the Australian Sex Party, or Secular Party....





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#16
RE: Australian election thoughts
(September 6, 2013 at 6:52 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Would you consider teaching your expertise to Aussies?

Oh and vote for the Australian Sex Party, or Secular Party....





Dodgy is all I'm sayin'

I definitely made a mistake in voting for the Greens as opposed to the Sex Party. However then again I don't believe that they will get a senator elected in Victoria, while the Greens certainly will. Also I don't want to see another Family First or Catholic (Democratic) Labor Party senator being elected from Victoria.

Although I did preference the Sex Party (while voting one for the Greens) in the lower house ahead of all the other parties.
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#17
RE: Australian election thoughts
It is official our senate electoral system is a joke, in Victoria some outfit called the "Motoring Enthusiasts Party" are likely going to get a senator elected. They only got 0.5% of the senate vote, however a extremely good "above the line" preference flow from other small parties will ensure they will get a senator elected.


The most likely makeup of the new senate

Labor 26
Liberal/National 33
Palmer's United Party 2
Liberal Democratic Party 1
Nick Xenophon 1
Family First 1
DLP 1
Greens 10
Motoring Enthusiasts Party 1

To get legislation passed, the coalition will have to either deal with the Greens or deal with that mixed bag of senators from other political parties.
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#18
RE: Australian election thoughts
I'm not an Aussie, but (to paraphrase Zaphod), I wouldn't trust Tony Abbot as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#19
RE: Australian election thoughts
So the same as before. Only with the legislation being good this time round Tongue

http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-elect...ts/senate/

The results for the sentate, can be broken down by state.

Yah the ldp won 1, almost won a 2nd in W.A.

It appears our LDP and sex party votes in W.A got the australian sports party senator elected.
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