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paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-04 11:31:49
January 30 2013 08:57 GMT
#1
The Australian General Election has called for September 7 2013.

Who would you vote for?

(Note for poll: Greens = left, Labor = center-left, Liberals = center-right.)
Poll: Who would you vote for in the Australian General Election?

Labor (157)
 
37%

Liberals (123)
 
29%

Greens (109)
 
26%

Other (31)
 
7%

420 total votes

Your vote: Who would you vote for in the Australian General Election?

(Vote): Labor
(Vote): Liberals
(Vote): Greens
(Vote): Other


Poll: Who would you like to win Prime Minster in the upcoming election?

Kevin Rudd (127)
 
78%

Tony Abbott (36)
 
22%

163 total votes

Your vote: Who would you like to win Prime Minster in the upcoming election?

(Vote): Kevin Rudd
(Vote): Tony Abbott

valheru
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia966 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 09:13:07
January 30 2013 09:07 GMT
#2
I think a lot of people's opinion on this (and one I share) is that "I don't want to vote for anyone I just want to vote against someone". I have a rather low opinion of politics in Australia nowadays.
That being said I would vote for Labor because just not Abbott.

EDIT: Hey triple sevens.
EDIT: Actually no I'll vote Greens 1 but Labor 2 but a Greens vote is pretty much wasted but on the off chance neither of the two big parties get in and someone with a (hopefully existent) spine gets in...
I reject your reality and substitute my own
ManicMarine
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia409 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 09:10:24
January 30 2013 09:09 GMT
#3
Greens voter here, although mainly I just share Valheru's opinion of 'anything but Abbott'. Was a Labor voter but couldn't stand the intra-party politics.
Manic by name, Manic by nature.
rob.au
Profile Joined May 2010
1087 Posts
January 30 2013 12:40 GMT
#4
Cracks me up that you vote greens thinking it doesn't matter, it's why we got a carbon tax despite the overwelming majority of Australians voting for parties that were not going to implement one.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 12:59:36
January 30 2013 12:55 GMT
#5
On January 30 2013 21:40 rob.au wrote:
Cracks me up that you vote greens thinking it doesn't matter, it's why we got a carbon tax despite the overwelming majority of Australians voting for parties that were not going to implement one.

Mitt Romney's economic adviser Greg Mankiw:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/a-reading-for-pigou-club_24.html
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/a-reading-for-pigou-club.html
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/a-cartoon-for-pigou-club.html

Even right-wing, conservative, American economists agree with a carbon tax. Indeed, anyone who's taken a 1st year microeconomics course would easily understand that carbon is an externality and hence a carbon tax is good policy,
AssyrianKing
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia2074 Posts
January 30 2013 12:56 GMT
#6
They are all bad...
John 15:13
BoxingKangaroo
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Japan955 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 12:59:44
January 30 2013 12:59 GMT
#7
I seriously doubt that the major parties will start their full campaigns now (too expensive). All this talk of an 8-month campaign is silly.

At the same time, it's naiive to think that parties wait for the official announcement before getting into 'campaign mode', as if announcing it later would spare us from electioneering in an election year.

At least this way, we are spared all the endless, groundless speculation about when the election will be called. I'm pretty grateful for that.
Meatex
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia285 Posts
January 30 2013 13:00 GMT
#8
Anyone btter than current prime minister what with her illegal activities in the past that she has covered up
Really, why is real cheese so hard to come by in Korea? ^&^
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
January 30 2013 13:04 GMT
#9
On January 30 2013 22:00 Meatex wrote:
Anyone btter than current prime minister what with her illegal activities in the past that she has covered up

lol

There is no evidence of illegal activities. Just wild and baseless rumors.
Aeropunk
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia255 Posts
January 30 2013 13:10 GMT
#10
On January 30 2013 21:56 PiPoGevy wrote:
They are all bad...

That's pretty close to my views on the matter. I'm voting Liberal, because they'll screw up the economy a lot less than a Gillard led Labor will.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 13:19:52
January 30 2013 13:18 GMT
#11
On January 30 2013 22:10 Aeropunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 30 2013 21:56 PiPoGevy wrote:
They are all bad...

That's pretty close to my views on the matter. I'm voting Liberal, because they'll screw up the economy a lot less than a Gillard led Labor will.

What exactly about the economy is screwed up?

Have a look at GDP growth, the unemployment rate and inflation in the US, UK, Europe and Japan. Then look at Australia.
DropBear
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Australia3779 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 13:22:16
January 30 2013 13:19 GMT
#12
Neither side has any policies bar the other side are idiots. Neither leader is qualified to run things and there aren't any obvious alternatives.

Totally voting sex party. I don't care who wins so long as there isn't another minority government, one side needs a majority this time.

Also lol at how quickly this thread has produced unbridled idiocy. Pretty much sums up Aussie politics
Sucker for nostalgia
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-30 13:23:33
January 30 2013 13:22 GMT
#13
On January 30 2013 22:19 DropBear wrote:
Neither side has any policies bar the other side are idiots. Neither leader is qualified to run things and there aren't any obvious alternatives.

Totally voting sex party. I don't care who wins so long as there isn't another minority government, one side needs a majority this time

Hell, no. The minority government is the best thing to happen to Australian politics after Rudd was removed.

I cannot bring myself to vote for Gillard given that she's a pathological and proven liar and a horrible person. With a minority government, I can vote for the Greens and have Labor policies without voting for Labor and without having Labor in power in it's own right.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-04 07:58:13
February 04 2013 07:57 GMT
#14
DESPITE last week's excitement, Julia Gillard's early announcement of the election date is unlikely to change much. It's certainly unlikely to change many voters' perceptions on a key election issue: her ability as an economic manager.

It's long been clear from polling that the electorate doesn't regard the government as good at managing the economy.

Why this should be so is a puzzle. As Gillard rightly claimed last week: ''As the global economy still splutters, unlike the rest of the world we have managed our economy so we have low inflation, low interest rates, low unemployment, solid growth, strong public finances and a triple-A rating with a stable outlook from all three of the major ratings agencies.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/why-voters-believe-the-economy-is-in-trouble-20130203-2dsgp.html
x2fst
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
1272 Posts
February 04 2013 08:01 GMT
#15
what a joke election, every option is stupid. guess it's sex party again
muda, is a crime for me to wear a shirt, cos I is so good lookin
ShadeR
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7535 Posts
February 04 2013 08:03 GMT
#16
As of right now for me its a toss up between the sex party or donkey vote.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-04 08:07:22
February 04 2013 08:04 GMT
#17
The Liberals now wants the Navy to tow refugee boats in international waters back to Sri Lanka.

This is ridiculous, probably illegal, and an embarrassment to the country. What other country tows boats of refugees back to their origin?

And if the boats are in international waters, what right does the Australian Navy have to tow them? According the the UN, the way that Australia treats refugees is already a disgrace, and inconsistent with international rules. We don't need an even worse and more heartless reputation.
RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia12446 Posts
February 04 2013 08:10 GMT
#18
Things will be fine either way.

People like to bitch and moan about our politicians but both sides do a decent enough job. As long as they don't meddle too drastically in our business interests, she'll be right mate.

Liberal, Labor--it's all pretty much the same. Most of their differences are on values based issues anyway.
"Terrans are pretty much space-Australians" - H
Brett
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Australia3819 Posts
February 04 2013 08:11 GMT
#19
+1 to the "anyone but Abbott" vote. To be frank, nobody has demonstrated that they are worthy of my vote at this point, so I really don't know what I'll be doing come election time.
Jisall
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2054 Posts
February 04 2013 08:11 GMT
#20
Australia has elections???

Lol. Yet another reason to love the land down under
Monk: Because being a badass is more fun then playing a dude wearing a scarf.. ... Ite fuck it, Witch Doctor cuz I like killing stuff in a timely mannor.
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