Let's see how the votes will be split on this board.

OK, what a choice..
I can say who I definiatly WON'T be voting for , and thats Abbott. I have been a Green voter with preferences to labor. I asked only a few days ago when I was really disillusioned in the dumping of Rudd who I would vote for.  And for the first time since I was 18 I may draw a peace sign on my next election ballott...

But sadly and scarily in  doing that may let Abbott win ..so I'll have to vote labor...that's a HAVE to and that's is my biggest gripe.

Third party.

[quote author=mellie link=1277654050/0#5 date=1277684367]I will be casting my vote to the more experienced Liberal party.

I found this quite concerning...

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Peter-Costello-Henry-Tax-Review-Budget-2010-RSPT-pd20100518-5K7QJ?OpenDocument

Now if Labors  incapable of explaining/understanding their own erroneous and misleading 'said' tax reform, how is it they expect others to cast an informed vote/opinion either way?

Major issues for me this election are as follows


-Halting, or at least significantly culling our current rate of immigration.
-Scrapping the RSPT
-More infrastructure and services.
-Re-evaluation of refugee and immigration policies.
-Creating meaningful incentives or imposing restrictions/taxes on companies immigrating their workforce, this opposed to employing existing Australians for a fairer rate of pay.
-More policing of sweat shops and other known havens where illegals work cash in hand, hand to mouth...day to day (Yes, these exist in Australia).
-More selectivity with respects to who we are immigrating in the way of a skilled workforce, competing with skilled Australians for jobs for a lesser rate of pay due to their willingness to work for peanuts in order to gain residency.
-Skilling up and educating existing Australians so we may grow our own skilled workforce  in order to strive towards a more sustainable self-sufficient future.
-Increasing our population slowly and steadily, with our own birthrate, this opposed to the "Big Australia"  by 2050.
-The gradual withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
-Mandatory health/blood screening for those wanting to study and  work and live in Australia.
-Meaningful Health,education and social policy reforms
-Incentives for Australian mum and dad investors to invest in their own nations/kids future.
- A more simplified, less bureaucratic tax system. One in which leaders themselves can understand/explain.
- More programs and incentives for parents and carers trying to re-enter the workforce.
-More mid-level disability support units in secondary schools.  Children with mild to moderate disabilities shouldn't have to struggle educationally or socially in mainstreams schools waiting for suitable placements they so desperately need in support units.
-More transparency where policy and political process/decision making is concerned.
-School teachers should be qualified to teach the subjects they teach. PE teachers don't generally make good computer studies teachers, quality control measures should be in place to ensure qualified staff are filling these positions.
-Stop putting Question time on at 3am in the morning. Some of us like to watch it.
-More transparency re- media in general, and more unbiased coverage of Both parties. The only paper taking a neutral stance on  Abbott at present is The Australian.
-Crack down on juvenile delinquency and youth violence in schools, which are supposed to be places kids feel safe, because main streaming these violent disruptive kids hasn't worked, despite schools happily accepting the 'special' funding to accommodate these behaviourally disordered kids who make life really hard for those who genuinely want to learn.
- A zero tolerance to school violence/ bullying,(Gillards stupid programs are absolutely useless, are an epic flop they will be trying to forget about this election).
-Kids like this love being suspended, so they can sit at home and play video games, put the little a-holes in boot-camp, lets see how much they want to get suspended then when they spend their entire school days scrubbing graffiti off walls.
-A 3 Strike and your off to boot-camp/military school policy.

We need a strong enough 3rd party to Hold the government in check so that they do not gain control of the upper house and abuse their power like the Howard government did.
One essay I read says the Government works best when they have control of both houses. I do not agree, what works best is if a third party hold the balance of power, not the government and not the opposition.
Just don't have a weak assed leader like Meg Lees!

muso wrote on Jun 28^th, 2010 at 10:48am:



Phhttt flatman liked his ribbon too much!

My first preference is that labor does not get in.
My second preference is that liberal does not get in.
So I will vote for an independent who has a good chance of getting in so the preferences don't flow to these big party spongers.
Whoever I think in the runup to the election, is going to get in, I'll vote the opposite way for the Senate or some minor party to stuff them up in the House of Representatives. But I won't vote for labor in the Senate.
Do it all the time, like hundreds of thousands of other sensible Australians, and keep the b*stards off our backs.

I don't vote for parties that have exported most of the jobs and industries from this country, and then bought in GST's and other taxes on people to make them even poorer. I particularly don't like hypocritical labor parties who try to make me poorer in the hope that I'll blame the "richies" so I'll vote socialist. Bullsh*trs.

Know of any smaller parties qualified to manage our robust economy?

Labor are flat out keeping their heads above water, surely you're not suggesting a PM Bob Brown?


Greens means Beans!



Cheers