"So fellow Australians vote informal! It is the only form of protest against the corruption that pervades every level of our administration"

I can see how informal is a protest, but I cannot see how it is the ONLY FORM of protest.

What about voting for smaller parties instead?
In the worst and likely scenario, one of the 2 major parties will be elected, but how should they feel knowing that they won without getting a single primary vote, only because most electors placed them in the 6th position rather than the 7th? Is there a better protest?

The comments thus far prove that most people shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never read such rubbish.

People should have to prove they have some intelligence and some understanding of how our political system works before being allowed to vote. To allow anyone over 18 to vote is ridiculous and, worse still, to allow people to waste their vote is to invite the use of a firing squad.

For Christ's sake, use your vote to ensure that we elect a government tomorrow that cares about people rather than one that's in bed with both the wealthy and the big corporations.

Please!

www.dangerouscreation.com

"use your vote to ensure that we elect a government tomorrow that cares about people rather than one that's in bed with both the wealthy and the big corporations."

Agreed, David, and may I add, avoid a government that's in bed with any interest-group, not just the wealthy and the big corporation. Use your vote to make the government smaller, use your vote to kick out the nanny-state, use your vote to give people back the power over their own life.

Please!

www.ldp.org.au

Dear protest voters

1.Libs
2.Quality independent
3.Sex party
3.Labor
4 Family first or greens - who cares there both wacko's

The reason not to vote Labor - here is my reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJISBGi9E

Yuyutsu

Politicians are now substituting sovereigns; the Kings, Queens or Emperors or Popes. Like the formers, politicians are people busy sucking the blood of their subjects and wasting it at their whims. Democracy remains a joke.

Humanity would have progressed to social advancements that we cannot imagine, in the same manner in which it has progressed scientifically, had people not had their lives cut short by Sovereigns determined to keep their privileges.

‘Servant-Master’, the relation that goes back to the Stone Age remains with us, and we perpetuate it by being afraid or not bother to think.

Tim O'Dwyer 'This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism'.

Since I can not find enough words to combat your witless sense of lethargy, I ask you to think of the "other". Indigenous people - those many who need everyone to put forth a fight. A No vote helps no-one. It is hapless and extreme, making it harder for those who do give their all and their best. Surely you can find one or two who are worth your pen of melancholy.

If I can try to inspire you perhaps Martin Luther King, Jr. with "I Have a Dream"

"But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice."

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

I know many in the world who would love to vote but can not. I ask you not to act so inward or selfish. Apathy breeds Apathy.

http://www.miacat.com/