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Apathy rules in Victoria : Comments

By Rick Brown, published 15/12/2014

The election result is hardly an overwhelming endorsement of Labor. Not only was result close, but Labor's primary vote, while up by just under two per cent was barely 38 per cent.

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it's pretty funny seeing the Lib fanboys talk down Labour's win in Vic. The line they seem to be wanting to run is Labour should have won by more, rather then focus on the reality which is a one term Liberal party was voted out.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Monday, 15 December 2014 8:20:02 AM
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Yes Cobber, and political sour grapes writ large!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Monday, 15 December 2014 8:48:59 AM
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Labor plus Green won significantly more lower house votes than Lib + Nat.

No surprise: the conservative duo lost and the more socially responsible duo won.

This comment took considerably less than 5 pages to write and was just as informative.

Suck it up, fellows. You will get another time in a few years, next time potentially after a change of Federal leader or government, so the post-election name-calling will be different.

By the way, a check of the electoral office's website indicates that the author is numerically challenged.
Posted by JohnBennetts, Monday, 15 December 2014 10:22:37 AM
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I'm not from Victoria, but I do wonder if the title doesn't say most of it.
I suggest apathy rules not just in Victoria but right across the board. We are tired of, with a few worthy exceptions, the mendacious, self-serving politician telling us why we should vote for him/her rather than the other one. And even the exceptions must belong to a party and have their wings clipped accordingly.
Few to none can be believed. Almost all are in thrall to a greater or lesser extent to the corporate dollar. Why vote for at all, when in our hearts we know that real power lies in the board rooms, not the assemblies.
Posted by halduell, Monday, 15 December 2014 11:27:52 AM
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Hey Rick who is in Govt now,Liberals lost weep
Posted by John Ryan, Monday, 15 December 2014 3:16:16 PM
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Given the Chocolate Shop Siege going on right now in Martin Place (Sydney) may Melbourne be next?

All these wealthy, trendy, Green converts might have to contend with an innately conservative law enforcement environment aimed at averting a similar Siege or Worse in Melbourne.
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 15 December 2014 3:51:22 PM
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Yes that why the Libs lost the Vic election because they we too busy fighting the "War on terror" to fix the level crossings.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Monday, 15 December 2014 4:00:19 PM
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You may well be right Haduwel? But how would we know? Because you claim it to be so!?
Got any names or actual proof of corrupt behavior on the part of any politician?

And limit yourself to Australia and outside the prison system or the ICAC inquiry.
Surely not all Australian politicians are in the thrall of corporate boardrooms.

Not voting may indicate your dissatisfaction or quite blatant apathy? But to whom? Mr Putin perhaps?

Not voting is simply giving your vote to the incumbent as is an invalid vote! And hardly an effective way to actually register a protest.

A better scheme would be to always place the incumbent last on the ballot paper!
But particularly when corporations need time to groom/turn corruptible politicians.
Who out of office and favor, may very well respond with a tell all, that earns them considerable retirement funds?

Simply put, if all those now not voting chose instead to not only do so, but vote as a single unit/with one voice! They could usher in a new government each and every time, and given a term is not more than 4 years, insufficient time for big money to successfully corrupt honest politicians!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Monday, 15 December 2014 4:06:21 PM
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