Voting - Oz Style
Yesterday was time for the NSW state election. In Land of Oz, voting is compulsory - if you are enrolled & don't vote you get a fine sent to you. So on a beautiful sunny Saturday I was more than glad to have the excuse to leave the house (hahaha, bye bye studying) and go down to the nearest school to have my say. Unfortunately, I didn't change my address in time, so I was still voting under the Blue Mountains area. Oh well. A ballot form is still a ballot form. It was long - hmm, 70cm long perhaps? It had boxes. And it had very funny candidates/parties that you could vote for!
My favourite parties names were: The Fishing Party, Horse Riders / Outdoor Recreation Pary, Save our Suburbs. The Shooters Party (or whatever they call themselves). None of them got my number 1 vote alas.
As was expected, the Labor party are back in power. No one really wanted them in. It really was a battle of the best of a bad bunch. More people wanted them in than the Liberal party from the voting front -and in Australia - the Liberal's are actually like conservatives elsewhere, we're a bit upside down here.
My favourite parties names were: The Fishing Party, Horse Riders / Outdoor Recreation Pary, Save our Suburbs. The Shooters Party (or whatever they call themselves). None of them got my number 1 vote alas.
As was expected, the Labor party are back in power. No one really wanted them in. It really was a battle of the best of a bad bunch. More people wanted them in than the Liberal party from the voting front -and in Australia - the Liberal's are actually like conservatives elsewhere, we're a bit upside down here.
posted by sarahlocks at Sunday, March 25, 2007
3 Comments:
Sarah my love, how I've missed your ranting!!! Glad that everything is well and that you didn't vote for the 'shooter party'. Alcohol shooters = yum...other shooters = perhaps not so good :)
Mon (aka little brown lady)
Yay, I like lots of posts.
Are the 3 day weekend party still going :o)
Hmm, no, didn't notice the 3 Day Weekend Party - perhaps we can re-invigorate that group when you get back here. Or you could get a governmental job which means you get a rostered day off! Gold I tell you - GOLD!
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