Voting

[Bomberboyokay]

Go waste your vote. There are going to be a lot of recriminations when they poll 2% points worse than in 2013.

Go spit on a refugee and beat up a gay.

 

[Bostonian]

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally in the closet anarchist politician hater.

The cynic in me thinks single policy parties aren't even trying to hide the fact they are riding into power by tricking the voters on one point.

Ricky Muir has been a great senator.

 

[Bostonian]

Go spit on a refugee and beat up a gay.

Spitting is really a Greens thing if we're being honest.

 

[Lebbo73]

Go spit on a refugee and beat up a gay.

Is that what you recommend as being the best approach?

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Will be voting Greens. Hopefully there's a sausage sizzle as I've never seen one in my almost decade of voting.

http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/2016-federal-election-sausage-sizzle-map/

 

[Bomberboyokay]

"Liberal and Labor are the same" isn't true. Liberals is full of ultra captalists who'd love to decrease your wages and increase your healthcare costs and tax burden. If you're gay, have the wrong skin colour, or have an 'unkempt' look they'll be extra happy to do it.

 

[Taylor]

"Liberal and Labor are the same" isn't true. Liberals is full of ultra captalists who'd love to decrease your wages and increase your healthcare costs and tax burden. If you're gay, have the wrong skin colour, or have an 'unkempt' look they'll be extra happy to do it.

The biggest lie is them pretending they aren't exactly the same and wouldn't take any position to gain power.

 

[Gough]

Puffed on my democracy spliff, and am off to vote.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Gotta laugh at everyone saying they're not gonna vote. Don't go starting a petition for a another vote when your team doesn't get up like the Poms did.

 

[Gough]

I've just realised that I haven't backed a winner since 1992.

 

[Plugger35]

No....I've just never enrolled to vote.

I wish I had thought of that, I really can't be arsed voting today and I'm in Julie Bishop's electorate so it makes no difference who you vote for as she will shit it in again.

 

[Taylor]

I wish I had thought of that, I really can't be arsed voting today and I'm in Julie Bishop's electorate so it makes no difference who you vote for as she will shit it in again.

Youre in the SAS?? We might know each other

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I wish I had thought of that, I really can't be arsed voting today and I'm in Julie Bishop's electorate so it makes no difference who you vote for as she will shit it in again.

The party you vote #1 for gets $2.62 per vote (if they get over 4%).

 

[Cmarsh]

Was just going to walk out after getting my name ticked off but once I saw "pirate party" on the ballot was compelled to put a 1 beside it.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Anyone know a good link for live results as the votes are counted?

 

[rdhopkins2]

If you have been living in a cave and have no idea of parties and policies, this site will give you a rough indication as to what party you most closely align with.
https://votecompass.abc.net.au/parties/?s=febe4986697074a248b47bbbdfb41720ce1e272b1467415601

I'm sure there a few on here with no idea on who to vote for.

 

[Reynolds Number]

Quite the venue they have set up at my local.

Live band, radio station broadcast, food and beverage market, craft and second hand goods market before reaching the crap stuff just outside the booth door.

 

[jackn]

Pirate party and sex party been knocked off 1 and 2 for me. Voted 1 derryn. Was very annoying having to pick 6 parties though.

 

[CakeEater]

Bacon and egg sandwich for $4 at my local primary school how could i not vote?

 

[HBF]

Will be voting Greens. Hopefully there's a sausage sizzle as I've never seen one in my almost decade of voting.

This is what I did as well. Was going to vote for the sex party, but they didn't have a candidate in our electorate.

 

[HBF]

Pirate party and sex party been knocked off 1 and 2 for me. Voted 1 derryn. Was very annoying having to pick 6 parties though.

Sex Party 1 for me as well.

 

[JUBJUB]

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"

 

[Tbonefreo]

Sex party YEW!!!

 

[Tulip]

Just gone and done it. Phone died the second I stepped out the house, queue was massive and they'd run out of snags. My voting experience really paralleled the quality of the candidates.

 

[Meow]

I dislike major party collusion.

When you look at the choices we have in the safe Labor ward of Corio you'd understand why a single policy party is preferable to the rest of the shower of shit options available.

Disappointing that Corio is such a safe seat (Clifton Springs resident here) as nothing will ever get done. You won't see the same pork-barrelling that's happened in neighbouring Corangamite - a very marginal seat - and so low-income suburbs such as Newcomb, Norlane, Corio will continue to lag behind in terms of health, education, jobs etc. A real shame that politics has become about winning votes in this manner.

Libs were the pick of the bunch for me in the House of Reps despite the Abbott/Turnbull reign. Otherwise it was a choice between Richard Marles (done SFA for the reasons outlined above), crazies such as Rise Up Australia/Socialist Alliance, several one-issue parties (e.g. Bullet Train), and the Greens who are purely concerned with appeasing Labor to win seats.