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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 18:11:36 GMT
Three days to vote. Voting is not compulsory, you get one vote only and it is not under a complicated electoral system.  |
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Post by erlend on Sept 4, 2013 18:33:24 GMT
I think I would vote Green. Which shows how obnoxious I find the main duopoly as I am hardly the greenest LD here. Under transfers that would end up with Labour if I could bring myself to it.
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Post by Andrew_S on Sept 4, 2013 18:43:55 GMT
It's a crazy system IMO where you have to preference every candidate in order for your vote to count. So if two fascist parties were standing for example you'd have to decide which one you disliked the most.
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Post by Khunanup on Sept 4, 2013 18:49:21 GMT
I've gone with Green. Labor are too right wing (in a corporatist way), especially undervthe Tory Rudd, and insular here for my liking.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 20:57:40 GMT
Sex, then transfer to LN.
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 4, 2013 21:10:08 GMT
I think I would vote Green. Which shows how obnoxious I find the main duopoly as I am hardly the greenest LD here. Under transfers that would end up with Labour if I could bring myself to it. If I were lucky enough to live where I wanted in Melbourne (East Melbourne), I'd probably first preference Adam Bandt, but it would be a vote for Adam, not the Green party. If I were lucky enough to live where I wanted in Sydney (Mosman), then the man with the budgie smugglers probably wouldn't be ending up with my preference and it would probably end up with the ALP. There are divisions where it would be different. |
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Post by tricky on Sept 4, 2013 21:12:11 GMT
Labor. No way would my vote end up helping elect a Coalition MP so I might as well go straight there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 21:33:29 GMT
The LDs so far are doing well in dissociating themselves with the liberal tradition in Australia. (Waits for DocB ...)
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Post by AdminSTB on Sept 4, 2013 21:40:15 GMT
Sex Party.
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 4, 2013 21:41:13 GMT
The LDs so far are doing well in dissociating themselves with the liberal tradition in Australia. (Waits for DocB ...) The majority of the "Liberals" in the Australian Liberal Party have nothing to do with the liberal tradition. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 21:42:02 GMT
The LDs so far are doing well in dissociating themselves with the liberal tradition in Australia. (Waits for DocB ...) The majority of the "Liberals" in the Australian Liberal Party have nothing to do with the liberal tradition. Doesn't stop you lot voting Lib-Dem . Seriously though - a little surprised with the likes of Tricky going Labor, even with a pretty pragmatic/conservative "Liberal" Party |
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Post by erlend on Sept 4, 2013 22:21:34 GMT
The fact that Tricky would vote Labour indicates how unpalatable and illiberal the coalition there is. My problem is that I don't see Labour as much better.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 4, 2013 22:44:02 GMT
Tricky only votes Labor when it doesn't have a 'u' in it.
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Post by timrollpickering on Sept 5, 2013 0:12:13 GMT
Meanwhile my closest Lib Dem friend - yes there is such a person and I tease him relentlessly for it - is firmly pro Liberal despite being all too aware of the different meanings and where Abbott swims on the spectrum.
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Post by johnloony on Sept 5, 2013 1:36:03 GMT
I have no idea. I don't know the issues or the personalities enough, and it would depend on which constituency or who the candidates were.
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Post by seanf on Sept 5, 2013 6:52:29 GMT
Liberal-National
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 7:52:34 GMT
If I was living there, I would heartily dislike the preferential system as I think being forced to vote for a party you abhor, even if it is your last transfer, is anti-demcratic in the extreme.
I can't imagine any situation in which I would vote for the Coalition but I would want to protest strongly against Rudd's 'more anti-immigrant than thou' stance.
I am happy I am not living there for this election.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 8:16:12 GMT
If I was living there, I would heartily dislike the preferential system as I think being forced to vote for a party you abhor, even if it is your last transfer, is anti-demcratic in the extreme. I can't imagine any situation in which I would vote for the Coalition but I would want to protest strongly against Rudd's 'more anti-immigrant than thou' stance. I am happy I am not living there for this election. What would you do? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 8:19:44 GMT
Pay the fine, probably.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 10:00:29 GMT
Out of interest, who chose Democratic Labour? They don't have an obvious parallel in the UK.
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