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Re: Semester I 2007 - Chatter Thread! Is it just me, or does Angus McSRC President have a really really irritating voice? He popped into a 3pm lecture to inform us of all the Climate Change Awareness Day activities that we'd already missed because we weren't told earlier and it was like nails...

Hey, same with me. We must be brothers. Except that not having a job is only partially because I'm lazy. It's also because I'm unemployable.

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Re: Australians against further immigration I stand corrected. I checked the AEC website: if you can't find a member of parliament to join your party, you need 500 people who want to join. There's also a $500 registration fee.

Re: Australians against further immigration You have to get 50 signatures of eligible voters or something, but yes, as long as the party's name isn't offensive or easily confused with the name of another party.

bshoc, it's possible, however amazing it may seem, for people to disagree with you without being moronic or criminal. Different people see things in different ways. That's something you ought to learn. At present, you seem to represent the worst type of liberal supporter - arrogant, elitist (The...

Yeah, I hate it when 17-year-old girls have loud arguments with their boyfriend/father of their unborn child on their phones. I mean, I understand that they're under a lot of emotional strain, but the whole carriage doesn't need to know about it.

All opinions are not equal, yes. That's quite different to saying "My opinion is right, and everyone who disagrees is stupid". I'm sure that plenty of people voted for the ALP without a strong reason. But I'm also sure that plenty of people voted for the Liberals without a strong reason. And...

For the legislative council? It'll take weeks, probably. They haven't even started with the below-the-line votes, I think. Greenway has been redistributed pretty much out of Labor's reach. It now includes the Hawkesbury region, which is fairly solidly Liberal. The bigger worry for the Liberals...

Their primary was 0.3 of a quota. The election-night results are very unreliable, of course, but they weren't really close at all. The Greens preferenced them, but I don't see that being enough to get them 0.7 of a quota. So no Democrat action in the LC, by the looks of things.

To be honest, the thing I really can't stand is when people try to explain away their supported party's defeat by blaming the electorate, and more broadly when people believe that no one could ever have a different opinion to theirs without either being stupid or having malign intent. The fact...

Why?

In what sense did our compulsory voting system fail us?

Dawn Fraser seems to stand for every election she can find. She even stood for a directorship of the NRMA a few years ago. She appears to think that she can rely on name recognition by casual voters and that she doesn't need to campaign, and is roundly defeated time after time.

I always like seeing the politicians commentating on the ABC election coverage. Once voting's over and they know that what they say isn't going to affect anything, they tend to cut loose a bit and show a sense of humour that hasn't been carefully focus-grouped and pre-packaged. I love how...

Yeah, pretty much the more affluent beach seats (Vaucluse, Manly, Pittwater) are Liberal, while the more sort of surfie areas like Coogee and Maroubra tend towards Labor. Southern suburbs (Menai and Miranda, around the Cronulla and Kurnell areas) are also Labor - Debnam didn't make enough...

I wonder what the trade school-attending youngster (he looks like he's about 15) talking to Morris on the back of the Labor HTVs thinks about his sudden fame.

Blue Mountains trains are normally pretty good. We get the nice air-conditioned trains with toilets (although they're so small you can barely get into them, and they're not exactly very pleasant, so I avoid them if at all possible). It does get a bit crowded sometimes, but only once we get past...

I'm a few days too young to vote, but I got my mum to pick up the how-to-vote cards for my electorate, Blue Mountains. (She says she was really embarassed having to get the CDP one.) Interestingly, a lot of parties (Greens, Liberals) preferenced the independent, Robert Stock, and no one else...