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Furnaceface posted:An actual left leaning Green party? Since 1918.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 03:49 |
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Yeah now Im actually jealous. We keep being promised electoral reform but in the end its always FPTP loving sucks.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 03:51 |
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Senate elections weren't held under STV until the 1940s, and I don't really know much about the system before that.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 03:53 |
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http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/australian_electoral_history/reform.htm AEC has a timeline. If you do get offered reform be sure not to vote against it like the UK.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 03:59 |
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Anidav posted:I want to kill Christian Porter Say that again. Anidav posted:I want to kill Christian Porter Let's me and you go for a ride, Anidav.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 04:13 |
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open24hours posted:http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/australian_electoral_history/reform.htm Yeah Im really hoping they dont put it to a referendum and just hammer it through because I dont trust my fellow Canadians to not vote against their better interest. Also that link was really fun to read through, thanks! Am I reading it right that you have mandatory voting as well?
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 04:21 |
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Furnaceface posted:Can someone here give me a link to something that explains the break down of the Aussie parties and where they sit on the political compass? Im curious if yours is as bad as ours here in Canada with only one left leaning party and a bunch of them on the right (who somehow continue to win elections). I'm Canadian and I've lived in Australia for 8 years now. I can tell you that whatever compass/spectrum of political ideology you use that puts only one Canadian party to the left would comfortable put both major Australian parties far far to the right. I assure you, the concept of left/right has a very different demarcating line between them in Australia than Canada.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 04:22 |
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Furnaceface posted:Am I reading it right that you have mandatory voting as well?
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 04:27 |
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Furnaceface posted:Also that link was really fun to read through, thanks! Am I reading it right that you have mandatory voting as well? It's great. Instead of the sea of interested voters getting swamped by special interest groups (who are at least passionate about something even if it is drowning reffos), we get drowned out by the masses who aren't sure who the PM is and don't care anyway.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 05:16 |
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Serrath posted:I'm Canadian and I've lived in Australia for 8 years now. I can tell you that whatever compass/spectrum of political ideology you use that puts only one Canadian party to the left would comfortable put both major Australian parties far far to the right. Based on policy I'd call greens left, with labour centrist with NXT just to the right of that and the libs being hard right.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 05:23 |
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I want to get off Mr Christiansen's wild ride:quote:Here’s Proof The National Suicide Hotline Is Taking Plebiscite-Related Calls https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/plebiscite-calls-new-database?utm_term=.ki4d2mj57#.iuy2RzYoX
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 05:48 |
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The AFP have dropped the investigation into the copying of Peter Slipper's diary.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 05:56 |
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Let me guess - the reasons are sorted by alphanumerical order, and "the first option now reads “2016 Marriage Equality Plebiscite” because nothing else starts with "2016".
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:02 |
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Tim Wilson is a twat and I hope he gets slapped down by a bus.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:03 |
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Self hating homosexual.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:04 |
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Ixnay on the Omelet posted:Let me guess - the reasons are sorted by alphanumerical order, and "the first option now reads “2016 Marriage Equality Plebiscite” because nothing else starts with "2016". Well yeah, I doubt they'd sort the list based on the number of calls about it to save the operator a second or two. That'd be a bit morbid.
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adamantium|wang posted:The AFP have dropped the investigation into the copying of Peter Slipper's diary. https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ion?CMP=soc_567
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:09 |
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"Oh dear", as Pauline probably never said "how will I ever decide on a vote if my good friend Peter Ashby is facing charges?"
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:46 |
quote:bigstory.ap.org Read Later Great big tax on hard working families Mr speaker
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:47 |
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https://twitter.com/CroweDM/status/783185749579399168 Uhhh....
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Ixnay on the Omelet posted:Let me guess - the reasons are sorted by alphanumerical order, and "the first option now reads “2016 Marriage Equality Plebiscite” because nothing else starts with "2016". They all start with a date. Congrats on crossing off "I don't like gays" and "I do no research" in the same post though, 10/10 efficiency.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:08 |
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BBJoey posted:for almost a century now. we like to whinge a lot but I think Australia genuinely has one of if not the best voting systems in the world. I concur. We are still the only developed country that uses preferential voting for all elections and in 2016 that just boggles my loving mind. Fun fact: I remember reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy as a teenager and amongst all the endless appendices he has a copy of his imaginary Martian constitution, for this perfect society he's dreamt up, and pretty much everything to do with elections is modelled on "the Australian ballot system." So noted utopian futurist Kim Stanley Robinson at least agrees that we're on the money.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:16 |
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Oh yeah the secret ballot was also our idea.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:22 |
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Australian ballot refers to the secret ballot.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:22 |
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Ixnay on the Omelet posted:It's great. Instead of the sea of interested voters getting swamped by special interest groups (who are at least passionate about something even if it is drowning reffos), we get drowned out by the masses who aren't sure who the PM is and don't care anyway. this, but unironically
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:21 |
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freebooter posted:Abbott's slavish Anglophilia is fascinating. He grew up in the '60s and '70s for gently caress's sake, the sun had well and truly set on the Empire. Where does he get it from? It gets better: quote:Tony Abbott has been appointed a director of a new centre for western civilisation – a thinktank which he says aims “to promote a more widespread study and understanding of the western canon.”
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 10:50 |
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Tony Abbott appointed director of new thinktank to promote western civilisation Tony Abbott appointed director of new thinktank to promote western civilisation Tony Abbott appointed director of new thinktank to promote western civilisation Tony Abbott appointed director of new thinktank to promote western civilisation Tony Abbott appointed director of new thinktank to promote western civilisation
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Western Civilisation is being a sexist imperialist and eating raw onions apparently. Makes sense I guess.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 14:18 |
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Birmingham: Tony Abbott has told right-wing allies in Britain that he believes he has a reasonable chance of becoming prime minister again, Fairfax Media has learned. The revelation confirms the former leader is hoping to emulate Kevin Rudd's 2013 success in returning to the Lodge after being booted out by his own party in 2010 despite his public assurances that his leadership is "dead, buried and cremated" and that "the Abbott era is over."
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gay picnic defence posted:Birmingham: Tony Abbott has told right-wing allies in Britain that he believes he has a reasonable chance of becoming prime minister again, Fairfax Media has learned. Is anyone remotely surprised by this revelation? I think we all just assumed it was already the case. I can't wait for Abbot to "Keven Rudd" Turnbull out of the office before losing the next election himself. It would be perfect. Also after he regains PM but before the election is lost, if the lack of pairing could cause more significant public embarrassment that would be great. TIA Abbot.
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DancingShade posted:Is anyone remotely surprised by this revelation? I think we all just assumed it was already the case. Especially if he's scrambling trying to respond to GFC II: China edition and block SSM in a fractured lower house while all that is going down
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 21:51 |
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fuckin do it abbott ya fuckin sook
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 22:23 |
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DancingShade posted:Is anyone remotely surprised by this revelation? I think we all just assumed it was already the case. Considering Abbott's negotiation skills are poor as gently caress. However it kinda makes sense now that he was sliming up to Hanson just after the election, so he can get stuff through the Senate
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gay picnic defence posted:Birmingham: Tony Abbott has told right-wing allies in Britain that he believes he has a reasonable chance of becoming prime minister again, Fairfax Media has learned. I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Oct 5, 2016 |
# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:14 |
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quote:return to the lodge But Abbott didn't spend a single night in the lodge if I remember correctly.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:16 |
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norp posted:But Abbott didn't spend a single night in the lodge if I remember correctly. Full of piss and lies as usual. Carry on. E: Abbott is full of the piss, not Norp.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:17 |
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How is Rudd's second go something anybody would want to emulate?
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:21 |
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I've made this helpful tool so you can imagine you're kickin' it with Wyatt at the frontlines of a warzone.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:34 |
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It destroyed Gillard's political career, if he could do the same to Turnbull I'm sure that would be reward enough.
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