Well, by Sunday we should know who the Prime Minister is for the next while.
Last time, I did an informal vote on purpose. I didn't know much about the different parties and didn't really have definite views anyway.
I was on team that year and we were asked to hand out flyers for the CDP at one of the local voting places for an hour or two. When I got there, I found the flyers called for a total stop to Muslim immigration- something that sounds rather discriminatory for a secular society like Australia. So, I didn't hand them out very enthusiastically.
This election, I've reviewed a lot of parties' policies (ALP, Lib, Greens, LDP, CDP, Family First, The Sex Party and The Secular Party -even Senator Online [which I find ridiculous as it would be totally dominated by trolls]) and controversially (among Christian circles, at least) I've decided to mostly go Green.
I don't agree with all their policies (notably the abortion and gay marriage issues), but i do agree with most of them and their general ethos. The "Christian" parties (CDP and FF) make me cringe and the "Anti-Christian" parties (Sex and Secular Parties) go too far in the other direction. The two major parties don't seem to make a hard stand on issues that actually matter to me (like climate change) and I don't want to throw my vote away again.
I encourage every one to go check out the different parties, make up your own mind, put together your preferences and vote like you mean it!
2 comments:
Well we still don't know who the PM will be . But thats ok because I think the major parties got the message we don't like ant of them.
I am encouraging everyone to vote for the local candidate they think will represent them best . That after all is what the westminster system is supposed to be about , all independants.
It's an interesting time politically, isn't it!?
Every morning the abc reports different likely outcomes for the seats that aren't settled yet. Yesterday they said 73-73 for the two majors, now they're saying 71-71 and that it'll be another week before things settle down.
My expectation of a result by Sunday was a little optimistic, wasn't it?!
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