Who will you vote for? (5 Viewers)

[withoutaface]

Libs in both houses. Although Lowe (now Reid) has been redistributed to the severe detriment of the Liberal Party, so in effect my vote becomes redundant.

It's actually McMahon now.

 

[philphie]

Who is a Liberal here? What can we do to kick Labor out of office?

have either Turnbull or Hockey as leader

 

[SylviaB]

LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY

 

[incentivation]

It's actually McMahon now.

Prospect is being renamed McMahon much to the displeasure of Chris Bowen.

Antony Green's Election Blog: Federal Redistributions

The inner-western Sydney seat of Lowe has been abolished and amalgamated with parts of the former seat of Reid. On the draft boundaries this seat was re-named McMahon. In its final determinations the Redistribution Commissioners chose to retain the name Reid and applied it to the re-drawn electorate of Lowe.

The final boundaries have chose to remove the name Prospect from the electoral map and re-name the seat McMahon, in honour of former Liberal Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, who served as prime Minister 1971-72 and represented Lowe 1949-82.

The redistribution of Lowe (now Reid) west to incorporate parts of Auburn and neighbouring suburbs has increased the margin from about 7% to 11-13%.

 

[suling]

If I wasn't a young-un as in January I'd be voting for my local independent, he actually does stuff for our electorate and he is really not going to lose the seat. We were one of the first electorates to have our member established at the last election.

gah why do you know so much about this stuff!? Who IS our local independent anyway?

maybe I would know if I didn't have my head stuck in the past all the time..

 

[Rafy]

gah why do you know so much about this stuff!? Who IS our local independent anyway?

maybe I would know if I didn't have my head stuck in the past all the time..

Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives

 

[SnowFox]

Which ever bloke is willing to neck Michael Atkinson and the Internet Censorship failure.

 

[Sonic]

Who is a Liberal here? What can we do to kick Labor out of office?

you might need to get ONE singular message out from the party.. basically as it stands now, everyone has an opinion and lets the media know about it..

good luck libs but nothing is going to happen soon

 

[Phoenix Fury]

Which ever bloke is willing to neck Michael Atkinson and the Internet Censorship failure.

ya this

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

Which ever bloke is willing to neck Michael Atkinson and the Internet Censorship failure.

This.

 

[Got2Kno91]

If I had to describe my political persuation, it would be socially quite far to the left. Economically i'm more on the fence, and reserve the right for my position to change. I would say that our economic balance is not too bad, although more liberalisation, independence and accountability needs to be worked into the system. For instance, less restrictions on hiring and firing, and the elimination of a progressive tax system in favour of a flat tax. Furthermore, there's almost a whole welfare class of people who need to be weaned off benefits and thrown into the workforce, with assistance/training where necessary. Relatively few under-65's on long-term benefits are completely incapable of any kind of employment. Public housing needs to be seriously consolidated (almost eliminated) and largely replaced with affordable housing initiatives. Public housing should be only for emergency/crisis accomodation and for exceptional circumstances.

Then again, I support sensible public transport development, more proactive government participation in urban planning and beautification, basic gov't homeless shelters as well as general infrastructure building initiated by the government.

So, now comes the question, which political party fits these views? The mainstream Labor and Liberal parties have it significantly wrong IMO. The Greens have it correct socially, but are at this point too economically radical for my liking. Libertarian views are somewhat like mine, but often just go too far. Jeez, I don't know. Anyone have suggestions?

 

[jb_nc]

If I had to describe my political persuation, it would be socially quite far to the left. Economically i'm more on the fence, and reserve the right for my position to change. I would say that our economic balance is not too bad, although more liberalisation, independence and accountability needs to be worked into the system. For instance, less restrictions on hiring and firing, and the elimination of a progressive tax system in favour of a flat tax. Furthermore, there's almost a whole welfare class of people who need to be weaned off benefits and thrown into the workforce, with assistance/training where necessary. Relatively few under-65's on long-term benefits are completely incapable of any kind of employment. Public housing needs to be seriously consolidated (almost eliminated) and largely replaced with affordable housing initiatives. Public housing should be only for emergency/crisis accomodation and for exceptional circumstances.

Then again, I support sensible public transport development, more proactive government participation in urban planning and beautification, basic gov't homeless shelters as well as general infrastructure building initiated by the government.

So, now comes the question, which political party fits these views? The mainstream Labor and Liberal parties have it significantly wrong IMO. The Greens have it correct socially, but are at this point too economically radical for my liking. Libertarian views are somewhat like mine, but often just go too far. Jeez, I don't know. Anyone have suggestions?

thanks for the essay unknown noname poster

 

[Got2Kno91]

thanks for the essay unknown noname poster

Sorry I don't have the prestiege that comes with having over 5,000 posts on a random internet forum. You must be real proud.

 

[Lentern]

Sorry I don't have the prestiege that comes with having over 5,000 posts on a random internet forum. You must be real proud.

Ignore him, the herd is hostile when an outsider speaks with confidence.

 

[mcflystargirl]

to be honest kevin rudd lost every bit of my support the second he said internet filter.

 

[Lentern]

to be honest kevin rudd lost every bit of my support the second he said internet filter.

Why does this offend people so? I don't support it and understand there a problems with the current model but people don't seem to object to the model they seem to hate the idea of internet filtering. If the majority of content that was blocked was illegal content, eg movie downloads, child pornography, slanderous libels why is that a problem? It's illegal activity merely enforced like putting extra speed cameras on highways... This is directed at Mcflystar btw because he's not an anarchist loon i don't want to heard Jennyfromdabloc and Sylvester reciting their "freedom" rants we've heard more times than "working families".

 

[philphie]

i'm surprised internet filtering has caused a larger drop in support than an ets

 

[mcflystargirl]

Why does this offend people so? I don't support it and understand there a problems with the current model but people don't seem to object to the model they seem to hate the idea of internet filtering. If the majority of content that was blocked was illegal content, eg movie downloads, child pornography, slanderous libels why is that a problem? It's illegal activity merely enforced like putting extra speed cameras on highways... This is directed at Mcflystar btw because he's not an anarchist loon i don't want to heard Jennyfromdabloc and Sylvester reciting their "freedom" rants we've heard more times than "working families".

My problem with it is not a filter, it is the model, sorry i should not of been so vauge, the filter is simply not going to work, the technology is not advanced enough to only block illegal and inappropriate content. If we could be shown some form of documentation with all the technical details, proving it was going to filter most bad stuff, and no good stuff, I would be 100% for it.

 

[spazamataz]

Nationals FTW

 

[timw7845]

to be honest kevin rudd lost every bit of my support the second he said internet filter.

so you would rather abbotts religion force feed policy?

the internet filter is flawed anyway... im sure you can get around it