O/T... What is going on, I expected some post election comment

Who cares, same bucket different s**t

he aint got no mandate over here in the wild west :)))

We went out to dinner on Saturday night and the restaurant had the election on a big screen... didn't that make for a crappy evening.

When we came home, and for the next couple of days everything seemed overly quiet, as if everyone was asking themselves: what have we done?

We'll see who gets caught with their trotters in the trough first. In the WA state govt it was Norm Marlborough. For my money, the first one to show their true colours (bright red) will be Ms Gillard. Another scary thought is that she is one faulty heartbeat away from being PM.

Apologies if anyone is offended by this overtly political comment but Basil did extend the invitation.

Election? Did someone say election??????
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I have election evely morning before blekfast............................

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Election! last Sat wasn't it!

It's done, move on

its been and gone, it was like the cricket, the result was known long before the last day...

if week 1 is anything to go by, its going to be a LONG LONG 4yrs.. oops sorry.. fools, will open floodgate to payouts by admitting fault. then taxes will rise to pay the billions.. Oh yes. here we go.

May be too mant Nat's and Lib's on the forum and they have nothing to say.. LOL

be ready

Still nursing my celebration headache from sat night.

I detest the system and main stream politics.

One Man One Vote would sort our politicians out. This preference system stinks. You vote for a good fella and get a R Cranium

I only make up my mind when I get to the booth.Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party got my vote this time...I see in the results they attracted around 17,000 votes....hahahaha

We shall no doubt see where the pre-election promises go........out the window most likely. Still waiting for that fast broadband to arrive.....lol

Cheers

Just hope it does not take three years and six months before the promised laptops for high schools turn up.

My hubby's boss is spewing, he deals with allot of worksites, all of of his employees are on a workplace agreement ( not an AWA), which has not been reviewed in three years. Now he reckons the country is going to hell in a hand basket, then again he does alot of business with China, which is where he is this week. My hubby likes working for him, it is a very small company, and he choses to work for him even though he could be earning double in Dampier, which is where he is this week. He is earning half as much as what the people he is training. Also hope they get rid of 457 visa, did you now that Maccas are employing people in Dampier on the 457 visa? Took hubby 20 minutes last time he was there to get dinner at the drive-through, because they could not understand him.

Me I just wish they would sort out the Family Tax A and B ( formally the married man and single man tax) having to estitmate how much we earn a year in advance, esp when Kev is doing alot of FIFO, long hours is pain in the butt. We way over estimate, but we also get a good tax return, which has not turned up yet by the way.


For the record don't blame me....I am from WA remember, memories of Burke, Grill,Malbrough and co are not that far away.

Debbie

It doesnt seem to matter whos at the helm really.

There appears to be three levels of society:

The....Have Nots.

The....Ive Got it Alls.

The....Im Working my Guts Out to carry the two above.

I think I know whos the real engine room this society.

Cheers.....Lionel.

Well we voted them in so we just deal with what gets tossed at us .........no differnt to the other party.

Brian

Thge most dangeous thing - I think I read somewhere
THE GREENS I THNK HAVE THE CONTROLLING VOTE (what ever its called)
If they hvae THAT vote, we are fuct. they will close everything

It's our political cycle at work.

Labor got the middle ground in 83, gradually moved left and let the Libs grab the middle ground in 96. Johnny kept dragging the Libs to the far right and Labor has seized the middle and is back in power.

Give Labor 3 or 4 terms and they will open the door for the Libs.

Be proud, we have a wonderful democratic system that never lets either party go too far without being pulled up.

Give it a rest this is the only place we can get away from it!

not much debate because the right man won

Interesting exercise, this.
For the last few years I've been on this forum, I've tried to gain an insight into the various contributors including what their political leanings might be.
This post pretty well confirms my impressions.
Nothing personal......
Gerry

time to go bush again.....

LOL look what you've done Basil hahahaha

Everyone's up on their soapboxes. Rudd will probably last 2, maybe 3 terms and the cycle will start over again.

The unions were about to disappear up their own orifices. Not necessarily a healthy situation. They invested heaps because it was virtually a life or death situation with only around 17% of the workforce in the unions.

Both sides ran predominately alarmist scare campaigns because that is the ONLY way to get the attention of an incredibly apathetic electorate. We reap what we sow so it should be an interesting few years until the next 'lottery'.

Whats to say ?, "We won , smug johhny lost " ?, we are humble in our victory.

Well if I may say so that was a most robust debate, as young Mr Grace would say "You've all done very well".....
What interested me about this election was how the media controlled it, I'm beginning to think maybe the media is running the country. Something else to think about, we were able to debate the issue freely without being rounded up and shot because of our differing views.
Frankly I don't give a damn who is playing "government" & "opposition" they are all a bunch of self centred, self absorbed petty crooks and Arthur Daley types anyway.

In answer to the question that is sometimes raised, "where do all our taxes go?" it's now obvious, it's used to pay "retrenched Politicians" a fortune for life....

Its been an interesting exercise but on to more serious matters.

Julie Bishop can park her stilletoes under my bed anytime....lol.

Here's my tac on the day...and I won't align myself to any side..but I worked in one polling booth in Central Victoria and it was a very busy booth, the only one in the town and we had about 4000 voters. The day started about 7.30am and finished at 10.30pm and I didn't get home til just after 11pm.

I spent the day rotating between marking off peoples names in the voters register and guarding the ballot boxes...then after 6pm counting the votes.

When you're sitting at the ballot box people speak to you, they moan alot of the time about HAVING to vote...and I smile and shake my head and wonder how they'd feel if they didn't have that right..it doesn't bother me...I have a vote, I'll use..however each to their own...but one thing I did gleen whilst sitting there making small talk with strangers was this..."I couldn't vote for the Libs I don't want Costello as PM"...that was the most common statement I heard, obviously I didn't add to it..not allowed to, have to be apolitical when you're working for the AEC.

In the end it was quite close, in our booth anyway...quite a lot of informals...a waste in my opinion...the senate ticket was a nightmare..alot of people filled in below the line and you have to check the whole thing to make sure it's 90% correct...most were, the greens got a big vote as did the shooters party..LOL....

and What Women Want got a lot of comments...I kept telling people this woman wants Hugh Jackman but I don't think that was one of parties policies....

anyway it was a long day...but we all had a bit of a laugh and the scuritneers were nice people who weren't over our shoulders too much..


cheers

Lyn

I don't know who my member is yet.

Here's what happened:

1. People were fat & happy but "tired" of Howard, hence no "anger" in electorate.
2. People do not warm to Costello.
3. Lib's blinked on the retirement issue and Costello came into play.
4. Labor had good spinmiesters and a good rudbot to "stay on message".
5. Press gave Labor the best ever dream run with little scrutiny, helped by not appearing anywhere they would get asked a tough question or could not control.
6. Lib's campaign was messy, Howard overstayed.
7. No issues (including Workchoices) had any impact whatsoever, cancelling each other out.
8. Less than 6% of the country changed it's vote.

Here is what will happen:

1. Labor mistakenly think that people love them and everything they stand for and begin to execute.
2. Libs move to the left and flank Labor on a few key issues.
3. Labor find people were just kidding/not paying attention and expected them to be different.
4. Polls go bad.
5. Labor left challenges to try and save the ship, Messiah Kevin .07 shafted and is not the Messiah after all, just a very naughty Country Party farm boy.
6. Kerry O'Brien declares we can "do what we like this time".

We are in new territory: Gov't changed in time of prosperity, sitting PM loses own seat to political novice with media profile but nothing to say, Labor leader sitting to the right of Genghis Khan, Labor candidates with made over images and designer specs but Libs doing midnight unauthorised pamphlet drops. Anything is now possible and if the polls go bad early, 1 term for Labor is on the cards if Austalia is paying attention.

IMHO

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