Stupidest headline ever

VY the whole point I was tryng to make is that local government of the city we live in is totally different to Federal Govt of the Country, which happens to be located in one building in our city. If you work for local govt you avhe nothing to do with Fedral govt. People working for QBN city council work for their local govt, but don’t get blamed all the time for decisions in Parliament.
Many people around the country work for the public service (Fed Govt) but they don’t have to wear the blame all the time – why should we?
Yes – Canberra is to some extent a company town, but that doesn’t make us all compolicit in every decision the goverment makes.

I dunno 😉 What about a list of issues with every election where you just put a couple of more crossess. Stuff reasonably unrelated to the economy: Locking up people without trials. Joining the ‘motherland’ in senseless wars. (Ok, that’s more acute). Some environmental issues. Abortion, civil unions and other bible related themes.
For all of these you could potentially have the majority of Australians opposed to Johnny. However, because of their economical concerns (and because Beazley is a retard) he’ll get back in. So force him to follow the will of his country instead of bowing to a couple of Family First/Nationals dudes.
Amen, brother. Beer o’clock!

Good in theory Slinky – but a referendum is a terribly expensive excercise. Not shitcanning your idea at all, I kinda like it, but I’m all ears as to how this can be made affordable.

Great idea Maelinar, but I’d also advocate more direct democracy: I hate the little eyebrowed ****wit too, but he has definately got the economy up, which is why most people voted for him. Now the question is: Why should a little homophobe decide over civil unions, just because he’s a decent economist. Especially if 52% of Australians are pro and only 37% against?
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/10947
Let the people speak and vote over important issues directly.

Bulldog not/never important… just a shit kicker…

Kimba… having me choose the government is probably the best thing I have heard you say on this site.. …are you offended that I called you stupid… I wouldn’t worry too much – I am just a couple of words on your computer screen.

(PS IMHO ignorant is voting for a party that has screwed the country over many times during its reign.. with very little foucs on humanitarian issues and big focus on over taxing in order to inflate figues and egos… and listening to everything that is said in the media)

I’ve actually been running with a seperate idea for a while now, thought I might open it up to discussion (unless I already have and have forgotten, my apologies in that case):

How about you disable electoral boundaries, and everybody gets to vote for whoever they damn well want to represent them.

If the person doesn’t match up to what they want, they discard him like a fat man throws away a mcdonalds wrapper. The onus of choice then, is on the people, and their representatives will be extremely conscious of whom they are representing (or they’ll lose the support).

People who say that “people are stupid’ for voting a particular way are simply condescending and ignorant.

Perhaps we should do away with elections and just have Absent Diane appoint a government. Only ‘it’ (Absent Diane) is intelligent enough to make such a decision – well according to it!

I heard you used to sell marine paint door to door for the yamaha dealer – how’s that for ‘fluffing’ your resume.

Just kidding AD – I’m sure you’re very important.

In another city I was the marketing manager for a small to medium sized business in the marine/military industry – during this period I ate too much fish curry and not too many chips..

absentdiane, what does that say about you then.. you mentioned in another article that you work for dimia.. that makes you a public servant, who, in another city.. would be selling fish and chips…