Who's Forgotten Already?...

[arthurking83]

Yeah .. it's tiring isn't it

I think the most important point these morons simply don't get ....

the vast majority of voters(if not all of us) are just tired of the BS now.

While some of us care about debt and deficit and others care about 'global warming' and still others care about HECs fees and interest rates ... the one thing that's striking me as the obviously urgent agenda that needs fixing ..... corruption issues.

Fix those, and I reckon budget deficits will disappear, the globe will cooling itself, boats wont need to be stopped, and cows will be free to jump over the moon again

[ameerat42]

Yeah .. it's tiring isn't it

I think the most important point these morons simply don't get ....

the vast majority of voters(if not all of us) are just tired of the BS now.

While some of us care about debt and deficit and others care about 'global warming' and still others care about HECs fees and interest rates ... the one thing that's striking me as the obviously urgent agenda that needs fixing ..... corruption issues.

Fix those, and I reckon budget deficits will disappear, the globe will cooling itself, boats wont need to be stopped, and cows will be free to jump over the moon again

Yeah, well on this last point, that's a good solution for NASA's woes. They have been lamenting cuts in funding.
Let them go and raise a herd of free, happy cows. They can easily test the efficiency of cow launches by trying
to get a few to jump over the moon when it is at perigee. - And an offshoot of their endeavours could be a new
line of Laughing Cow cheese

[Grant S]

Yeah, well on this last point, that's a good solution for NASA's woes. They have been lamenting cuts in funding.
Let them go and raise a herd of free, happy cows. They can easily test the efficiency of cow launches by trying
to get a few to jump over the moon when it is at perigee. - And an offshoot of their endeavours could be a new
line of Laughing Cow cheese

Only problem being that methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2

[ameerat42]

But the moon could use a more substantial atmosphere

[KevPride]

Just read Gov't forced the removal of all references to Australia in particular Great Barrier Reef from Unesco Report on Climate Change. Talk about head in sand.

[Kym]

Use your preferences, esp. in the Senate (you still can).
Put the majors last (Lib, Lab, Green).

If you use your preferences you vote won't be exhausted.

The new senate voting is aimed at disenfranchising the ~3,000,000 who voted for minor parties ahead of the majors last election

[ameerat42]

Gerrymandering wearing a disguise!!
It sounded suss from the outset. Perpetrators should be
spiflicated!

[Mark L]

Use your preferences, esp. in the Senate (you still can).
Put the majors last (Lib, Lab, Green).

Well you don't even have to preference any of them you mentioned know. Might be an indirect way of saying "get stuffed."
I will preference two of them second last and last though. (and the other won't get a number)
The Pirate Party actually have some good policies.

[ApolloLXII]

I will be exercising my democratic right by drawing a box on the ballot papers and writing the words "Trained Monkeys" and giving it a big tick because I believe that suitably skilled simians could not do a worse job than either Liberal or Labor.

[ameerat42]

...The Pirate Party actually have some good policies....

1. Arrgh!
2. Arrgh, me harrghtys! (Pyrates carnt spall.)
3. Avast ye scurrvy landlubbers...
And some others.

They have an interesting platform - er, plank.

[arthurking83]

..... Perpetrators should be
spiflicated!

That's quite a spiffy word!

.. thanks for that one
(maybe I'm drunk, or somth'n)

[ameerat42]

Drunk!? That's nothin'. Just don't eat anything using a runcible spoon!
(That had me snickering - And if you find a definition, it will be wrong!)

Actually, most of what politicos say is runcible.

[arthurking83]

..... I believe that suitably skilled simians could not do a worse job than either Liberal or Labor...

I'm thinking this line of thought is inaccurate!

a job implies that work is being done(irrespective of good or bad!) .. and some of the recent gaffs from so called front benchers that hoard 2million dollar houses under the guise of ripping off the majority of taxpayers .. err... undeclared negative gearing .. it would seem that the majority of said front benchers don't actually do any!


so maybe that line should read more like:

I believe that a deceased simian could not be worse at slacking around than either Liberal or Labor.

[Nick Cliff]

Arthur there is an apparent need for a 'Monkeys (rool) rule' party in the senate with one policy of "feed the monkeys bananas three times a day".

[Mark L]

I will be exercising my democratic right by drawing a box on the ballot papers and writing the words "Trained Monkeys" and giving it a big tick because I believe that suitably skilled simians could not do a worse job than either Liberal or Labor.

And then you get them main parties thinking another voter that doesn't give a shit. Doesn't matter if you're not vote for us if you're not voting against us.
Better to make a valid vote against them main parties.
If you're so unhappy, make a valid vote against the bastards.

[bobt]

While some of us care about debt and deficit

and some seem to be more concerned about "jobs and growth" !! I'm sick of 3 word slogans .... I'm all for 4 word slogans like "Shut the F up" !!

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Better to make a valid vote against them main parties.
If you're so unhappy, make a valid vote against the bastards.

Yup ... I've got friends who vote informal every time, but what does that achieve ...... Nothing! Far better to try and introduce change - every vote for change is a step in the right direction. Every informal vote is just a wasted opportunity.

[ameerat42]

Yep, slogans! - The bane of all thinking.
Make a suggestion, and don't even state a fact. Fools will fill in their own "facts" and follow blindly.
Keep thrashing the slogans, and create a new "reality". When it doesn't work, people will forget how
it started and the whole thing can be kicked off again in a few year

It's the "democratic" process.

Oh, and while we're at it it, yes! DO go right ahead and insert warning lights in the roadways to warn
mobile phone-befuddled pedestrians that they are crossing the road.

When that fails, come up with a "better" idea.

[Mark L]

Yup ... I've got friends who vote informal every time, but what does that achieve ...... Nothing! Far better to try and introduce change - every vote for change is a step in the right direction. Every informal vote is just a wasted opportunity.

And I know a couple of people that refuse to go on the electoral roll.
"They know we're here and will change policies to get us involved" my BIL said to me.
"You ain't gunna vote against them, so what do they care about you" I said.

[DacrimL]

You all have it wrong I'm afraid.

1st off I was taught to look after #1, myself first, so that being said if we all did that and voted for #1, would we not have the most democratic country in the world where the voice of the people actually counted

[ameerat42]

You're probably RIGHT! Let's all do that and see what's LEFT!