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What I think is so funny is that we are all of a sudden taking seriously the agrarian socialist who wants less competition for bananas but more competition for supermarkets. Cracks me up. Oh, and didn't Gillard say that she wouldn't consider a coalition with the Greens, yet she's met with...

LOL - I think all us Victorians are shaking our head saying "Huh? How did that happen?" We managed to get rid of Steve Fielding but ended up with them. I reckon a some Labor wanna-be voters saw the name "Democratic Labor" and thought "Oh, yeah, that's them" coz they were only F on the...

Um, well it depends on what they meant. Did they meant upper house or lower house? It was possibly said by people who consider "all those lefties" to be the same. It might have meant, that in the lower house, people who vote green are likely to give preferences to ALP, coz, you know, all...

It's not the government's job to interfere. Interest rates are essentially the price that a bank sells it's product for. The state has no business ordering the price of goods - and our banking sector has been deregulated for a long time now. And yes, Costello would have allowed it. Even...

Or you can join the Greens and try to turn them into economic rationalists like I've done. Hehehehe.

I'm not sure what you mean? Anything other than numbers in the boxes IS informal.

Nope. I did scrutineering once and anything other than numbers in boxes is considered informal and not counted. A smilie, or a little heart, or an obsene message are all considered informal.

Aaron - I'm talking more on a worldwide level. It used to be thought that population would stabilise once a nation reached a certain level or GDP. But that turned out to not necessarily be the case - esp when investment was not made into female education. Women who have been to school can...

Um ...... Did you read into my posts that the world is overpopulated and it's my duty to solve it? In fact, the best way to curb fertility is to educate your females.

Dazz - Soldiers fought for your right to abuse people??? Actually, speaking of funny buggars, the CEC used to send me emails. Took me a year or so to realise they were serious and not satirical. One of my mates and business associates ran for the Senate in the ACT in 2007 for the What...

The AEC website also has all the preferences. Which bits do you find interesting? Personally, I think it's much as you'd expect. I think everyone has learnt their lesson from 2004 when they tried to be smart arses and ended up with the devil they didn't know.

Winston - Here in Vic Dr Richard Di Natali who will replace Steve Fielding is, well, a doctor. Dazz - Thanks for that -Are you advocating first past the post? Not sure the vast majority???? But then most people vote Labor or Liberal/National. I suspect the people who vote for a minor party...

Presumably they will increase taxes to pay for it. I don't agree with their economics - and I suspect the reason they are poor on the economic front is that they are run by a bunch of health professionals, not economists. But hey, maybe they got out their Keynesian graphs from the 1930s and...

Yeah, the problem is that if you speak out too much you get disendorsed. See Pauline Hanson and Graeme Campbell got kicked out of the Liberal and Labour parties.

I'm voting Greens. In fact I'm handing out How to Vote cards for them. My primary reason for voting for them is refugees. I'm soooo disgusted that a few miserable boats with a few bedraggled asylum seekers have become a major issue in this campaign. Are they seriously playing football with...

Neither of them are inspiring, I agree Aaron. I voted for Kevin last time coz I wanted an apology which I got. Would have voted Labor again this time, but I'm appalled that they too are playing political football with a few measley asylum seekers. I actually like some of the stuff Julia's...

See, I don't think it's important much at all. Both have similar policies so far. Gillard has a great big new tax on mining to fund stuff. Abbott wants a great big new tax on business to pay for maternity leave. Both have similar views on asylum seekers - esp those who arrive by boat...

If Julia Gillard doesn't replace "Moving Forward" broken record, the entire country will vote other, just to be rid of her. Eeeeeek - I could understand it for the first week, but now it's GRATING. I don't think I'll vote for either of them anyway. I do a little vomit in my mouth when I...

Or j us t s tacking the poll if you are allowed to vote more than once. It is uni holidays no? sorry spilled dessert on the keyboard and now it's all sticky and not working properly.

Shorten the vowels and tell everyone how you speak "Quinn's" English. There is talk that Lindsay Tanner's seat of Melbourne might go to the Greens. My prediction is that she won't call the election till she's sorted out a compromise with the mining companies - and then can campaign that...