If I'm registered to vote and I move districts between then, am I able to vote in any district or do I have to have my details updated somewhere?

Annie Anthrax wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 1:16pm:


Good on you Annie.
You can come to my place anytime.

It will be a nasty election campaign.
Julia has knifed Kevin & now she's sharpening it for Tony Abbott.

Vote 1 - Bob Brown.

Philby wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 3:54pm:


Now, therein lays part of the problem, not the solution!

Be it Conservative, right of centre, Labor or left of centre or even centre.

If people are not open to listen to facts and make a determination based on those facts, then they & the rest of humanity have a problem.

Btw, this is nothing against you personally, just the concept of anyone being permanently fixed into a particular Political leaning, irrespective of the value of the facts & the arguement.

Thanks for that, Freediver. Fairly certain I'll be moving to Tamworth in a week or so so I'll have to see about getting my details updated. I'll be voting for Onyer Arse Abbott, but I'll see if there are any good right wing parties to put over him.

I'm voting for Tony, he's our best chance at getting this country back on track so we may recover from Labors senseless squandering  in recent years.

Labor are flakes, they're more interested in distracting Australians with the prospect of a banana republic  than giving them meaningful policies they can take to the bank.

If this really is a "federal election" Gillard better stop adding insult to injury by further insulting Australians intelligence with pseudo-policies this and start talking about the issues/policies that Australians want to discuss.


Show us your ticker Gillard, before you prod us to the polls with your pitch fork.
And be a big girl, and put old Bob (Hawk )back to bed,  stand on your own two feet, or do you need someone more experienced  to nurse you through the election?

You are not demonstrating leadership quality, when we have heard more about policy from your parents... Bob Hawk making a quick buck on his latest soap opera mini-series aside.

Someone put grandad back to bed!

But I really liked the white 'Evan almighty' power suite you wore today....  even without the pitch fork.

  ...Be a big girl and show us your policies before the election, cheers.i

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Shakespeares Hamlet.

gillrudd is showing the same .................... inconsideration , and treachery

Gee, Mellie. The immigrants on working visas have got a better chance of getting work here than in Europe or America. The unemployment rate's pretty low right now.

I know housing prices are going through the roof, but other than that, this is the most prosperous time in Australia's history.

You're right about Gillard's phoney assylum-seeker policies - she's lost me with that one, but if someone's going to leave a country with almost full employment in a global recession because a few boats are coming in...

Let them.

The ABS stats are rather deceiving, for when we say employed, we forget to take into consideration those who are under-employed, many struggle to get a 30 hour week in, this or it's only seasonal work...it's far from reliable, secure, ....  which is why so many come here on student visas, live in 3 bedroom houses occupied by 15 people this and cant find work when they get here.

We need to start getting real about our under-employment stats, because it's these which are not being addressed.

Tanlou76, I understand your concern with "work-choices", but I think you will find he's intending on giving work choices a make-over.

Also, do you know who exploited work-choices policies to their advantage more so than the company directors themselves?

The Labor union thugs  themselves!

Labor unions cashed in on work-choices, believe you me.

So they definitely need an overhaul, noone , not even Tony is denying this fact.

Honestly, are wages, conditions any better now under a Labor government, with Australians competing with immigrants for a minimal rate of pay?

The way it is now, Australian workers, even lower ranking skilled professionals, ie teachers, nurses  lack bargaining power in their workplaces, for if they refuse to work for a given rate of pay, there is always a keen immigrant on a temp-visa willing to work for the minimum wage, with a view to being granted permanent residency at the end of it..(It's their carrot)...but where's ours?

It's a double edged sword being driven through our skilled and unskilled work force, cant you see this?

Youth unemployment has reached an all time high, the highest it's been in decades, of which coincides with our rate of immigration, which hasn't been this high for decades also.

......... by a long nose 

muso wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 9:07pm:



She'll win by a mile then;)

mellie wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 9:13pm:


Lol,  I would not like to see people obsess about her appearance, as it is her brain, not her body, we need to be relying on, but even so, I think they are missing some obvious chances to take the piss, and after all, she is a pollie, and they all deserve to cop a bit of stick.

I am waiting for a cartoonist to do a tortoise and hare theme for the election, with abbots triathlon fetish, and julia's lack of chin/neck definition, I would have thought it an obvious visual joke they would make use of.

I expect the election would throw up a similar result, as Abbott has effectively asleep as far as developing new policies, or creating a vision for the future too sell to the public, and just going negative, and promising a return to Howard's policies will not win him any fresh support, and without it he is doomed to fail.

By all means millie, vote for the guy who thinks that a woman's only value is in the home.

Whoever gets in, let us hope that neither lib/nat or labour hold the balance of power in the senate.

nah australian men dont like ugly women

The major parties will be at the mercy of the Greens if they manage to snatch the balance of power in the Senate this election.

Labor had three years to show Australians how they had matured, this and could manage an 'adult' robust economy better than their Liberal predecessors who left them with a fantastic platform to launch from, this and have now left us in the red.

Swan claims he can clear the budget deficit in three years,(had better make this 6) ... but the Treasurer only has weeks to get Labor's economic credibility back into surplus before voters head to the polls...(Is he for real?)...
It is incredible to think that a government which emerged from the global financial crisis with the economy in robust condition has squandered the credit on which it should now be building its case for re-election.
But the mangled introduction of the mining tax, wasteful stimulus spending on schools and roof insulation, and an overall failure to perform have left it with the credibility of a lame duck.

I realise you may not like Tony as an individual, (I'm an Atheist/agnostic myself and am not a fan of his religious spool), but it's the tried and tested 'sturdy' Liberal economics that appeals to me most,  the trusty Liberal machine itself behind the Tony I have faith in.
They know their stuff...
No one can doubt this fact!

I think of Labor as a wayward turbulent pimply teen still struggling for it's place in the big league, in terms of having managed an economy without having shunted it into deficit, debt....(Ok, we let them try now and then)... whereas Libs have it down pat, are the mop and broom who dutifully clean up after Labor once it's left the house.
OK, Libs  policies aren't always popular ...(did you like your parents rules anymore when growing up?)... but they are a sturdy well-oiled machine,  this and aren't prone to the same melt-downs a spurious policy producing Labor party are.

Kids will be kids I guess, and Gillard is afterall a green-stick as are so many Labor bubble-gum candidates these days...

They're getting younger and younger, or are we as a nation becoming more ageist?

Believe me when I tell you, we need our mop and bucket (fix-it) party now (libs) now more than ever, given Labor have once again made such a mess of things, and neither Gillard or Swan are qualified to undo the damage ... have no idea how it even happened, so how can they fix it?
...What, you think Drunk old Bob (Hawk) will fix it?

Silly old bugger has lost his marbles, and should be left to retire with his pickled old brain in peace.

..It's up to you, do you want a big mess or a massive mess to recuperate from when finally Libs roll back in to restore the surplus?

Leave it another 3 years and it's only going to hurt more...bit like pulling bubble-gum out of your hair.
The longer you leave it in there, the more it hurts in the long run.

If libs get in now, it wont be too bad...but it's inevitable, someone has to clean up after these messy pubescent Labor delinquents. i

Both Lib/Nat and Labour have shown that they can not be trusted when they have a rubber stamp Government.

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Yes it's going to be close and the Liberals stand a good chance of winning because of these marginal seats. Fortunately the Greens are doing better than they've ever done before and might make some difference to the outcome.

It was intersting to watch the right wing flavored media on the tv news.  The reports were all about how the ALP could loose.

Actually phony tony is going ok himself, he guarantees everything the voter with a hip pocket the world in order to secure their votes.

With a dash of xenophobia for good measure

mellie wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 9:12pm:


The Aboriginals didn't care much either - as long as it was done quietly. Pity!

My dad jumped ship here in the 1960s. British Merchant Navy. It took them 10 years to catch up with him, and when they did, they said he'd better go down to the immigration office and apply for residency.

Mind you, he'd worked, married, and even done a free degree by then - all "illegally". Talk about the lucky country.

Now, 3000 queue jumpers get in and its an invasion.

No country has the kind of uptight, anal-retentive border protection you're looking for. There's a few million sitting around in Pakistan. If Australia seriously thinks its going down the tube because of a few "illegals," it IS going down the tube - not because of the 0.001% increase in population (or whatever it is) - but because our education system churns out a bunch of knuckleheads who'll believe anything.

Anyway, vote Liberal and long for a return to our glorious, Pauline Hanson-loving past: a nation where American tourists can walk down the black person-free streets and say, "gee, I thought they had real kangaroos here."

And watch as the boats keep coming, descending, invading - polluting our pristine population of hardworking Christian soldiers, marching as one nation under a budgie-smuggling man who wanted to be pope.

Thank God for democracy.

Accidental Leak of tomorrow's Australian Newspaper Newspoll


TPP : Labor 55% // 45

Primary

Labor steady on 42%
Coalition crash to 38%
Greens up 2 to 12%


Election calculator on this result

Coalition 48
Labor 99
Others 3


http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/calculator/?swing=national&national=2.3&nsw=0&vic=0&qld=0&wa=0&sa=0&tas=0&act=0&nt=0&retiringfactor=1

greenswin - it could be a close election


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http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/new-poll-shows-labors-support-slipping...


the only thing gillard has going for her is she is a woman.

Close election ?

Are Liberals replacing Abbott as leader?


Be interesting if it was close ... yet Liberals have been neutralized and negativity will not win then Parliament.

Liberal's only hope is a major stuff up from Labor.

Deborahmac09 wrote on Jul 18^th, 2010 at 11:05pm:


Indeed!