Australian Federal Election 24 November 2007

Jeanie
Jeanie Posts: 9,446
edited December 2007 in A Moving Train
So Aussies, thought we could have a discussion about the upcoming Federal Election.

What your thoughts and feelings are.

What's it gonna be? More Little Johnny or Kevin 07??? :)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    well jeanie. i'm not sure the australian public wont return little johnny. i hope they dont, but last time they shocked me and did it. the libs are promising so much and for me tis all about actions rather than words. i shall be voting with my heart which means the greens. but as you know with our fabulous preferential voting system that means any vote for the greens in the lower house, is a vote for labour. how's that for democracy. :)
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    Allow me to remind everyone that only Bennelong voters get to decide on whether Johnny is returned on any kind of capacity.

    I pity the fools who think they're voting for Johnny, only to get Petey if Johnny loses here and the Libs win.

    Just put in my vote today at the pre-polling station. Felt good!
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Hinny wrote:
    Allow me to remind everyone that only Bennelong voters get to decide on whether Johnny is returned on any kind of capacity.

    I pity the fools who think they're voting for Johnny, only to get Petey if Johnny loses here and the Libs win.

    Just put in my vote today at the pre-polling station. Felt good!

    no reminding needed here. ;):D

    i know tis a private ballot, but what electorate are you in and who'd ya vote for? :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    well jeanie. i'm not sure the australian public wont return little johnny. i hope they dont, but last time they shocked me and did it. the libs are promising so much and for me tis all about actions rather than words. i shall be voting with my heart which means the greens. but as you know with our fabulous preferential voting system that means any vote for the greens in the lower house, is a vote for labour. how's that for democracy. :)


    :D I was planning to come back to this thread this morning and bump it with, "As I suspected, none of us gives a fuck!" :D
    Nice to see you found it catiefractious.

    Did I not hear recently that the greens and the democrats have cooked up a preference deal when it comes to the senate? Be good if it was true!!

    And I wouldn't be surprised AT ALL if Johnny comes back promptly sticking us with Petey but then I'm not really convinced that Kevin 07 is gonna be much of a difference if he manages to get in anyway.

    The only thing I really hope for is that enough people vote to get a bit of balance back.

    Preferential voting pisses me off.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Hinny wrote:
    Allow me to remind everyone that only Bennelong voters get to decide on whether Johnny is returned on any kind of capacity.

    I pity the fools who think they're voting for Johnny, only to get Petey if Johnny loses here and the Libs win.

    Just put in my vote today at the pre-polling station. Felt good!

    Yeah, Hinny is it Maxine McCune he's up against?? Some previous media identity or somethin? I can't remember.

    Anyway, I guess we're all stuck with what Bennelong does in terms of Johnny himself, but I always vote to try to get a bit more variety in government. I figure I can't stop the Libs getting in and I'm not that keen on Labor either, so as long as either of the big parties don't have a majority in the senate it's all gonna be much of a muchness anyway as far as I can see.

    Even if we do oust Johnny and the Libs, I can't see Labor revoking half the shit that the Libs have brought in. We'll still have the IR laws and we're still gonna be selling uruanium to Russia.
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    catefrances wrote:
    no reminding needed here. ;):D

    i know tis a private ballot, but what electorate are you in and who'd ya vote for? :)
    Bennelong. It's nuts here. Never seen a campaign like this before.

    I gave the Greens candidate my number 1, but the important bit is I had 13 next to J. Howard of the Liberal party. For the Senate I put the Climate Change Coalition at number 1, and move down from there to number 79.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    HA!!! LMFAO!!! the libs are labelling peter garrett an environmental extremist. :D
    how can anyone take these guys serious?
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  • NoK
    NoK Posts: 824
    I don't know if you guys read about the summary of the points Rudd really wants to do if he gets into office. One of them is total pull out from Iraq. Apparently he says he's already spoken to Bush about it and it would happen as early as late 2008. Not bad I say, not bad.
  • NoK
    NoK Posts: 824
    Hinny wrote:
    Bennelong. It's nuts here. Never seen a campaign like this before.

    I gave the Greens candidate my number 1, but the important bit is I had 13 next to J. Howard of the Liberal party. For the Senate I put the Climate Change Coalition at number 1, and move down from there to number 79.

    I think it would be impossible to get Howard out of Bennelong. If that happens I would buy each one of you Aussies on A Moving Train a nice cold beer.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    NoK wrote:
    I think it would be impossible to get Howard out of Bennelong. If that happens I would buy each one of you Aussies on A Moving Train a nice cold beer.

    can you make mine a scotch, i dont drink beer. :)
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  • NoK
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    catefrances wrote:
    can you make mine a scotch, i dont drink beer. :)

    Double?
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    NoK wrote:
    Double?

    sure... why not... you're buying. :D:p
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  • NoK
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    catefrances wrote:
    sure... why not... you're buying. :D:p

    Double it is! It would be crazy if he doesn't get re-elected in his electorate.

    Thats weird so if he doesn't get re-elected in Bennelong but the Liberals win the overall election, does Peter Costello take over (assuming he is elected)? or can Howard still run the show?
  • self lapping
    self lapping Posts: 1
    Jeanie wrote:
    So Aussies, thought we could have a discussion about the upcoming Federal Election.

    What your thoughts and feelings are.

    What's it gonna be? More Little Johnny or Kevin 07??? :)


    Four reasons why I won't be voting for the coalition. 1. Costello. 2. Downer. 3. Abbott. 4. Nelson. Pillocks. Why do we have compulsory voting in Australia? Aren't we suppose to be the leaders of democracy? The champions of the free? Send our troops overseas to fight for the freedom of others?
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    self lapping wrote:
    Four reasons why I won't be voting for the coalition. 1. Costello. 2. Downer. 3. Abbott. 4. Nelson. Pillocks. Why do we have compulsory voting in Australia? Aren't we suppose to be the leaders of democracy? The champions of the free? Send our troops overseas to fight for the freedom of others?

    if it weren't compulsory no bastard would vote. we'd all be down the beach working on our melanomas. :D
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  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Kevin 07.

    Once Howard retires do we really want Abbott and Costello running the country. I mean come on.................
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Austicman wrote:
    Kevin 07.

    Once Howard retires do we really want Abbott and Costello running the country. I mean come on.................

    so is that a vote for labor then?
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  • Austicman
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    catefrances wrote:
    so is that a vote for labor then?

    Yes it is. A vote for those union loving, economic novices. Trying to remember of the rest of the fear campaign but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Austicman wrote:
    Yes it is. A vote for those union loving, economic novices. Trying to remember of the rest of the fear campaign but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

    OMG!!! ted, dont you know those former union bosses are gonna destroy our economy by kowtowing to those strike loving bastards. and did you not see the 17% interest rate under the labor hawke govt in the 80s? never mind that the whole world was going nuts back then. this is no time for logic. stop just being alert and be very very alarmed. :D we'll all be ruined i tell you, RUINED!!! a vote for the labor party is a vote for the destruction of australian society as we know it. ;):D:p


    i'll be voting green BTW. :)
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  • The Oracle
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    NoK wrote:
    I think it would be impossible to get Howard out of Bennelong. If that happens I would buy each one of you Aussies on A Moving Train a nice cold beer.

    I'm in Bennelong electorate and have already voted (postal) to get rid of the little twerp, only hope the majority of the electorate do the same!

    Rudd'll do me as leader of our country (he'll get rid of Workchoices), making Pete Garrett a Minister will improve it, and the Greens'll hopefully have the casting vote in the Senate.

    Now, how many Coldies do I get for these pearls of wisdom???

    Love & peace to you all.

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