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election 2010

The next Australian federal election will elect members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia and must be held on or before 16 April 2011. The election will be called following the dissolution or expiry of the current Parliament. The current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard of the Labor Party, has indicated the election will be held in 2010.[3] Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the lower house, the House of Representatives, and single transferable vote group voting tickets in the proportionally represented upper house, the Senate.

from Wikipedia...

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Fron Guspedia: In the toon above I first had the voter saying "let's vote for the less ugly one"... Then I saw some pictures of Tony with a smidgin of red tinge on his hair... As we're approaching the day without knowing when, I thought I'd jump the gun...

or married her hairdresser...

from Bob Ellis...

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There are a lot of ardent feminists, male and female, who think Gillard's gender will get her easily home. But balancing this is seven hundred thousand religious Rudd voters who would prefer she were married, or not living in sin, and three hundred thousand others resentful of her atheism. How do we get that million back? It's pretty hard to say.

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She could win, I think, if she pulled the troops out (is there one Australian who wants them there? Hands up), or if she gave free dental care to the over-80s, or halved (as she could) city rents, or diverted the Upper Shoalhaven into the Murrumbidgee, or planted eight million trees, or purchased the Indonesian forests to stop their annual incineration, or abandoned her arrogant classification of schools, or married her hairdresser, or all of the above.

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Oh Bob, How could you write this? It smells of Miranda Devine's rancid perfume... There seem to be a rancor in your fake literary praise/demolition of Julia. I guess you'd prefer the other little right-wing-rat-bag to take over the lodge in order to give your other mates in Laborland a chance to remove Julia from her niftily acquired position.... You did such a great job on writing the play about Chifley... A Local Man...

Chifley was instrumental in many national icons and icon projects. These included the Snowy Mountains Authority, the development of what we know as Qantas today, what we once knew as TAA airlines, The Joint Coal Board, The Stevedoring Commission, The National Shipping Line, restructuring and expansion of CSIRO, the Australian National University and he was acknowledged as the political father of the Holden car. He was trail-blazing in the development of Australia’s education, immigration, welfare and health sectors. He was an innovative economist. He steered Australia through a war, a depression and avoided massive war debt.  He was both Prime Minister and Treasurer at one point in his career …

Give the woman a chance, please...

tough and close...

Australia will hold a general election on 21 August, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced.

Ms Gillard - the country's first female prime minister - said the snap poll would be "tough and close".

The governing Labor Party elected her as leader three weeks ago after ousting her predecessor, Kevin Rudd.

The race between Labor and the conservative opposition Liberal Party is expected to focus on the economy, health, climate change and immigration.

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Give the woman a chance, please...

till death do us part...

Australia should become a republic when Queen Elizabeth II dies, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said just days ahead of a general election.

Welsh-born Ms Gillard said the Queen's death would be an "appropriate point" for Australia to move away from having a British monarch as head of state.

Australians voted against beoming a republic in a 1999 referendum, but the issue continues to be divisive.

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The issue is not really "divisive"... It's only when Rattus slanted the question in 1999 to support a mediocre Turnbull model that people got nervous about it.... Most people wanted a republic and so they should but Rattus knew it would be "divisive" with his slanted referendum.  Actually Tony being a royalist and a Catholic shows some sociopathic dupicity... He supports the Anglican queen and the pope AT THE SAME TIME. How can he?... People like Joe Hockey and Malcolm turnbull should be ashamed of having a phoney Tony for their "leader", but they know if they get in, they would not have to do anything about their Libshit promises — most of them mouldy pies in the sky — but sqeeze the public and blame Labor for it...

Yes we've been there done that, before.