i think he'll hang in there til the election. i want him to. i want to see him cry.

these polls are meaningful. maybe.

labor.

went.

can someone please post that Albanese rant again? :)

Kevin Rudd will sink in mudd

Howard will always be the peoples person

I don't know, but I'm voting greens.

waits for parroty "federal erection" thread...

I got fined $145 for not voting in 2004 I think it was.

waits for inevitable Tampa-style lowest-common-denominator-vote-grabbing stunt from the Libs

I reckon if we all got together on mono and signed a declaration for peace(s) of Coward then maybe, just maybe we'd still all be fucked.

so many thousands upon thousands upon millions of people die everyday because the quntness stubbordness of first world leaders of quntries who'd rather fork out for things like hosting/housing/promoting events like the grand qunt

it's very obvious that half of the people "representing" us in the nation have no fucking clue.

As always the "best interest" of people like you and I are over looked and shrunken down to almost nothing.

DO u really think that politicians care about you and I sleeping soundly anymore?

huffed rant over

hugz

K.K

all i'm interested in knowing is: will David Hicks vote lieberal if he comes home?

No absolutely not, it's about justifying and proving to the public that they have the right idea where to spend the dollars.

aimed at killer kitty.....can we get rich, will we look good in the eyes of America, what can we sell to them....from what I can gather.

something like that .

aimed is such a perfect word in the scheme of things

give me a sniper rifle and "the mark" anyday of the week.

most prefered being election day

i just checked at the AEC's "where am i enrolled" finder thingy under all the addresses i could think of, i have had problems every time i try turning up to vote ever since my change of address form was manhandled by a malicious family member of an ex-housemate, i don't think i'm enrolled anymore. can that happen?

Nice bit of detournement there, fastcanoe. Calvin and Hobbes go revolutionary. Yey!

kuroneko said 54 minutes ago:

can someone please post that Albanese rant again? :)

DO you mean this one kuro? from '98...great dig at howard!

"You can trim the eyebrows; you can cap the teeth; you can cut the hair; you can put on different glasses; you can give him a ewe's milk facial, for all I care; but, to paraphrase a gritty Australian saying, `Same stuff, different bucket.' In the pantheon of chinless blue bloods and suburban accountants that makes up the Australian Liberal Party, this bloke is truly one out of the box. You have to go back to Billy McMahon to find a Prime Minister who even approaches this one for petulance, pettiness and sheer grinding inadequacy ...

John Howard has always been proud to call himself a conservative. The problem I think is that he has confused this with preservative. He probably wishes good old Ming had dosed the country with formaldehyde when he had the chance. Because it all started going wrong in the late 1960s. Here is a man who lived at home until he was 32. You can imagine what he was like. Here were young Australians demonstrating against the Vietnam War, listening to the Doors, driving their tie-died kombi vans, and what was John Howard doing? He was at home with mum, wearing his shorts and long white socks, listening to Pat Boone albums and waiting for the Saturday night church dance".

I hear ya Transient.

They like to call it an "Absentee Vote"

those days are the best and also worth waitn for.

rather than flyers and sausage sizzles, can't we just have the right to vote "FUCK OFF AND DIE" type of preference after an hour of being surrounded by people.

maybe I'll go live on a hill that's gonnabe demolished.

at least I'll see the sunset one last time

Gay!

You people care about voting. Like your opinion matters. Woohoo!

i was snivelling around one of my cosmopolitan citizen of the world international student classmates hoping radiant flecks of gold and loose diamond dust would lodge in my unwashed hair for future harvesting to supplement my austudy payments today, and she reckoned australia was the only country in the world where voting is compulsory. true?

It'll be one year of kevin 07 on monday.

Wow. Fucken... wow.

...and we're a change country, now in the future!

the hovercars and jetpacks are a nice touch.

I'm more concerned how fast that year has gone than what has changed.

i wonder how kev is holding up personally. he doesn't look like he's aged much.

robokev.

Kev is a machine. He's the hardest working person in the country. 20 hours of work a day is nothing unusual for him. He's burning through staff like paper though.

well he does have a lot to do. maybe they can go on shifts.

They are on shifts...they all have to work all the time.

So what do we think of Kev & friends after their first year?

I'd say it's a refreshing change, although it's still too early to say if they're really any good or not.

i've been mostly happy with kev and co

still liking the cut of the pm's jib despite his henson comments which was the only big disappointment, also hon p garrett isn't my all-time favourite politician this year but i'll get over that.

i think expectations were crazy high as well, they're doing good and still miles beyond the old crew

The Henson thing I can live with if I hold my nose; Australia is still more culturally wowserish (and, conversely, larrikinish) than liberal Europe, and he has to play to these people, at least with rhetoric. The push to a mandatory national internet firewall, though, worries the hell out of me; there is no way that governments now or in future won't abuse such a power if given it.

Having said that, I wouldn't swap them for the Tories. Good riddance to bad rubbish and all that.

The push to a mandatory national internet firewall, though, worries the hell out of me; there is no way that governments now or in future won't abuse such a power if given it.

Doesn't sit well with me either...although I have it on good authority that they actually have no intention of going through with this, knowing full well that they'd never get it through both the house of reps & the senate. The object it seems is to keep the bible bashing freak loser senator from family first happy so that they can get his support on other matters.

I don't know; firstly, Rudd's a bit of a wowser (witness the Henson episode), and secondly, an unanswerable block list, editable by politicians and department heads, could be immensely useful (even if only in a political negotiating context, as in ''help us and/or we'll ban ...''). If it does get through somehow, it will not be unwelcome in the halls of power. And I'm not sure that Australia has the robust traditions of openness and liberty for this not to get through (look at how often films are banned in Australia compared to Europe or the US).

Nah...won't happen. I'd bet my house on it. It's about appearances, that's all. Keeping the conservative, Christian right on-side. I was really, really concerned at first...but not anymore.

It won't stop access to the material, no matter how hard they try. They know they can't enforce it.

If you're betting on it falling on a Senate vote, that might not happen. The Coalition's still directionless after the last election, and there are enough social conservatives/religiofascists there to get this through without Xenophon or the Greens. Of course, in normal circumstances, party discipline would hold them in line and they'd vote along party lines or abstain, though whether Turnbull has enough clout is an open question. Labor will almost certainly vote along party lines on this, unless someone is sufficiently opposed to this to forfeit their chances of preselection come 2011 (and their generous parliamentary superannuation).

they will all vote on party lines, unless the parties themselves decide to make it a conscience vote, which they won't.