The Aussie Election

[~candice~]

"lemon" smear campaign?

They are throwing sour fruit?

Yes... standard operating procedure for pre-election, don't you think?

Oh..i thought you meant a particular type of slander.

I think the coalition are trying to keep Ruddy from hiding in the shadows.

Would Gillard,and some policy changes, be a better option for labour right now in view to salvaging this election?

Throw Ruddy to the lions?

Australia is not ready for a female PM, it won't happen. And besides, we know little of Gillard. She is a mystery. She doesn't relate well to the majority of Australians.

She is a working woman with no children, and seems a bit aloof from the challenges every day people face. She also comes across as very smug, which I hate.

She wouldn't get my vote.

Wow, Australian elections sound exciting. So who do you think the best candidate is, andy, and who is going to win? And WHAT is 'double dissolution'?

There is no winners and 22 million losers out of this election. Unfortunately.

I think the Liberal party has the better candidate out of the two major parties (the other being Labor) and it always boils down to a two horse race anyway.

The Liberals (which are conservative, not liberal!) have a coalition with the National party which should see them over the line.

We should see Tony Abbott (affectionately known as Captn Catholic), the leader of the Liberal party, elected as Prime Minister this election.

Kevin Rudd (current PM and leader of the Labor party) has to face his party tomorrow where they will vote to either turf him or keep him on as leader (and the choice is between him, and his deputy Julie Gillard).

We have two levels in government, the house of reps and the senate. When it becomes impossible to pass a bill through the lower house and senate, the PM may call a double dissolution election to break the deadlock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dissolution

The most famous case of the double dissolution is in 1975 with Gough Whitlam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam

from which the famous cry of "God save the Queen... because no one can save the Governor General" came.

[~candice~]

My jaw is hitting the floor

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/julia-...ll-of-politics/

:noidea:

[~candice~]

None of the families I know can make any form of connection with Gillard.

I just think Gillard is their current choice, not because of ability, but because of Rudd's toxicity. No one wants Rudd anywhere, a bit like nuclear waste .

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/union...0-1225883511901

[~candice~]

This is nutty... if she pulls this off...

this will be the first time a party has ever successfully ousted the PM from his throne, and

first ever female PM (although, non-elect)

Someone pointed out today that we have now had 4 female premiers and a current female Governor General.

So if Gillard gets in, we have a trifecta... female premier, female PM, female GG.

Someone quipped that if she gets elected, she will be the first woman to move into the Loge, and she is moving in with her boyfriend. Living in sin, in the lodge .

This is just so bizarre I'm having trouble recovering from the shock.

[oldzimm]

Lord, please speak to our hearts and reveal the person who You would have us support. Please allow us to see through the media spin and hype to see things as they actually are. We pray for wisdom and discernment. Please move through this election, and may Your will be done on earth here in Australia. Amen.

Amen.

The present government has broken yet another promise by using public moneys to advertise the positives of the new mining tax.This same government lambasted the Howard regime for using public moneys to promote "work choices" prior to the last election.Shame shame shame.(apologies Derryn).

At the moment the DLP is my preferred senate party ticket but no sure yet how I will vote in Fadden.It will not be for one of the two party preferred if at all possible.

You mean that there is governmental problems in Australia too, and I thought the USA only had problems with government. Fellow Americans we are not alone.

My friends in Australia, I don't know when your elections are but I pray everything works out for you.

[HAZARD]

Most Australian Liberal Senators know that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with their own leader, Tony Abbot.

[~candice~]

Most Australian Liberal Senators know that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with their own leader, Tony Abbot.

[~candice~]

I'm sick of the election campaigns already.

Labor has made this an issue from the start.I don't know why, but in the lead up to the election there was a plethora of articles on this topic, and now we see that they are pushing something that is usually not an election campaign topic, into the spotlight. Makes me wonder why? I think it is because they know that while most people in Aus don't actually support it, it makes Tony Abbott look ugly when he speaks out against it.

[~candice~]

I suspect this was not an attempt to get votes directly, but to portray Abbott as the "Mad Monk" woman hating conservative. Being labelled conservative in the context of equality like this, is very unpopular.

[Fez]

Enjoy! Whatever you get, it is going to be a politician. Sort of like any election anywhere, a lose, lose situation