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 Post subject: Dear Australia
PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:58 pm 
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Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I was terrified Johnny boy was going to somehow rally, and pull one of his election night miracles, and squeeze in again. I suppose you can never underestimate the voting power of Northern Queensland.

But it didn't happen! And that evil, crazy Lich bastard is finally gone! Thank God!

Now here's hoping Rudd isn't too bad.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:45 am 
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He can still rally.....

HE CAN!

And afterwards we'll roll over and assimilate NZ, then New Guinea then Nauru and then Tasmania.
We'll march in perfect synch, forwards ever forwards and upwards!

I spent the day on the water-slides and may still have heat stroke, or some kind of stroke any way.

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Oh yeah, I heard about the Aussie PM election. Good to hear Howard's out but it sounds like you guys vote in a new PM every two years, is that right? That's gotta make it almost perpetual election season on TV and whatnot, isn't it?

Wait, this is Aussie-Land we're talking about. I forgot. You guys take the entire election season & compress it into 2 months from declaring the candidacy straight through to the election. I wish us Americans had figured out this instead of the long ass march of primaries, bullshit, mud-slinging & whatnot.

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 Post subject: Re: Dear Australia
PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:49 am 
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themadthinker wrote:
Now here's hoping Rudd isn't too bad.

Same old pile of shit but now with different faces. At least the senate is no longer controlled by either of the major parties.

BandMan2K wrote:
I forgot. You guys take the entire election season & compress it into 2 months from declaring the candidacy straight through to the election. I wish us Americans had figured out this instead of the long ass march of primaries, bullshit, mud-slinging & whatnot.

Actually, there's still party preselection crap for all the electorates, but it almost never gets any major level of publicity. There was some publicity for it this cycle tho cos the ALP were trying to get some candidates who were already reasonably well known instead of the usual obscure candidates that noone has ever heard of. And there's always publicity when the leadership for the major parties is up for grabs; you just have to look at the spectacle currently evolving around the Liberals now that Howard has lost his seat and Costello decided to take his bat and ball and go home. The nationals will probably be similar too, now that mark vaille has decided to resign as their leader as well.

All in all, while the official election campaign was only six weeks long, the unofficial campaign has been going since Rudd became leader of the ALP back in december last year. That is ten months too long in my opinion.


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Its every three years for the local federal representatives and six years for the senate(with half the senate going up every election and the other half going up at the election after that).
Australia has a combination of the British and US system of government, a house of Representatives(with seats based on population size) and a Senate(based on fixed number per state).

We do have a primary thing, but its all done at the local level more or less, a few months before the election is held and no-one really pays attention to them because party hacks stack the local branches with their mates and the local members rarely do much for their own districts, mostly because members of parties always tend to tow the party line so they might try to work within their party to get stuff but they will occasionally have to do stuff against their districts best intentions for the party.
Also most of the districts have very few people in their parties trying for the seat.

The senate is like the senate in the US, six fixed number of seats per state and two per territory.

The PM is chosen by the members of the parliament in their party and holds a seat himself, there is no real executive branch of government in Australia (the Governor General doesn't count).
The campaign lasts two months the election date is called by the Prime Minister and the lead up to the announcement can be a bit of a drag.

But other than that its great fun and better than the two year long election cycle you guys get.

Also the most powerful Liberal in the country is the Mayor of Brisbane and the most powerful Labor member in the country is from Brisbane.

We're taking over the country in this elaborate three way chess game, between us, Sydney and Melbourne and if we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Rook to Queens Knight.
Your move Adelaide.

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