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Thread: What influences your vote...?
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12th September 2007, 07:55 PM #16
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12th September 2007, 08:00 PM #17
Who ever I think will do the least damage.
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13th September 2007, 09:25 AM #18"We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
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13th September 2007, 09:32 AM #19
Not to stir a possum, but I simply cannot understand mandatory voting. It strikes me as absolutely ludicrous. At least here the people who don't give a toss don't influence the outcome.
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Bob
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13th September 2007, 09:40 AM #20
I think it's good 'cause no-one can bitch and moan they didn't have thier say at the ballot box. It also makes some, not all, think about it rather than sit on their fat butts and do nothing.
I think a compulsory vote in the US would throw up some interesting outcomes like a female or black president.
HH.Always look on the bright side...
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13th September 2007, 10:20 AM #21
Not voting is their say at the ballot box, Though I will say it isnt compulsory voting. It is compulsory attendance to a polling booth. once you have had your name marked off the roll you can legally proceed to the ballot boxes and insert the blank voting sheet into the ballot box.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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13th September 2007, 10:33 AM #22
It also does away with the "ferrying" system, here the parties don't have to transport reluctant and/or unwilling voters to the polling booth.
Having only willing/interested voters doesn't necessarily ensure that an intelligent leader is elected, your fearless leader just attended an OPEC meeting in Austria
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13th September 2007, 10:33 AM #23
G'day,
A strong history of economic management - only only party offers that, the other yobbos had my folks paying 19% on their home loan.
If the economy is in the right hands everything else follows after that.
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13th September 2007, 11:41 AM #24
I live in proberly the only seat to have always voted labour,
we have never had any other federal member and as such get stuff all , one mob know they are going to get in and the other mob know they wont .
So in the house of reps always vote against them hoping one day we will be a swinging seat
In the senate I go for who I feel will do the best job for AustraliaAshore
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13th September 2007, 12:06 PM #25
We are similar to ashore in a rock solid NP/Lib electorate with the NP holding the federal seat for decades. You've got to wonder if we put a labor bloke in for a term how it would effect funding of the region next time round.
Waldo don't get to excited about interest rates they ended up being broken as a result of the 19% cracking the inflation nut, not by anything the current lot did. We also have a massive current account deficit and have undergone a period of housing inflation both of which put structural weaknesses into the economy. These can't be slated to one party and are not really on the radar at the moment, and wont be while we remain in a resources boom.
My vote will be to the party with some vision to the future on global warming and some plan to reduce our current account problems which means less consumption of overseas goods and more home grown production. A bit more honesty and a lot less spin would go down well also.
John
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13th September 2007, 02:00 PM #26
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13th September 2007, 05:25 PM #27
G'day John,
But we've paid off the inherited national debt from business reports that I've seen, it's the states that still have us in debt - Victoria being the worst. Housing, well that's not a political responsibility of either of the two major parties - unless you include stamp duty - which is a state thing.
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13th September 2007, 05:33 PM #28I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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13th September 2007, 06:56 PM #29
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Is that actually better or worse now? You need to remember that back then, the average loan was a lot less money - so to achieve the same effect, then interest rates had to be higher. They don't need to rise that high any more to have quite massive impacts on repayments.
To illustrate - 19% of $100,000 is $19,000
7.8% of $250,000 is $19,500
Yes, inflation and wage growth complicates things a bit, but you'd have to agree, focusing on the rate alone is rather pointless.Semtex fixes all
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