By not choosing an antiwar party and allowing your preference to go to a prowar party you lost any opportunity you had for registering an antiwar protest. You may have voted for a party whose preferences fleetingly went through a party with antiwar policies but that's not very helpful compared to what you could have done.

It's VERY IMPORTANT that your final vote went to the MOST PRO-WAR party available.

My preference in the Senate went to the MOST ANTIWAR party--the Greens.

Your vote in the House of Reps went to noone and helped noone, mine wound up with a party who at least wants to REDUCE the war.

Any reduction is better than NO REDUCTION.

I look at the RESULTS of my personal vote. You take no responsiblity for the policies of who you voted for or where their preferences went for the senate. You had complete control over that. Then you don't do what would REDUCE war in the House of Reps

Democrats and Greens by their policies are constantly campaigning for the very values you 'claim' to have but you don't like them and don't want to vote for them. How can you claim you are antiwar when you don't vote for antiwar parties?

Here are the anti war/terrorism policies/news of the Greens:

http://greens.org.au/hotissues/terrorismbill
http://www.greens.org.au/hotissues/terrorismbill/getactive.pdf
http://greens.org.au/policies/internationalissues/peaceandsecurity
http://greens.org.au/policies/internationalissues/globalgovernance
http://greens.org.au/hotissues/iraq
http://greens.org.au/mediacentre/mediareleases/senatorbrown/300606a
http://greens.org.au/mediacentre/mediareleases/senatorbrown/140606c
http://greens.org.au/mediacentre/mediareleases/senatorbrown/110606a
http://greens.org.au/mediacentre/mediareleases/senatorbrown/060606b
http://greens.org.au/mediacentre/mediareleases/senatorbrown/130506a

Democrats:
http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/how_to_stop_the_next_war/
http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/nowardbb/
http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/terror/
http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/new_asio_powers/
http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/guantanamo_bay/
http://www.democrats.org.au/docs/2004/War_in_Iraq.pdf
http://www.democrats.org.au/speeches/index.htm?speech_id=1833&display=1
http://www.democrats.org.au/speeches/index.htm?speech_id=1727&display=1
http://www.democrats.org.au/articles/index.htm?article_id=74&display=1
http://www.democrats.org.au/news/index.htm?press_id=5264&display=1

Labour:
http://www.alp.org.au/media/0606/speloo220.php
http://www.alp.org.au/media/0606/tviloo210.php
http://www.alp.org.au/media/0606/ms210.php

I have said over and over it's unfortunate the Democrats vote went to CDP. I do not condone that in anyway. As a Victorian I did not check where the Democrats vote in NSW went until I looked it up for you. They did not go to CDP in Victoria. MY preferences never went to CDP, they went to Greens--I take full control and full responsiblity of where my vote goes--unlike you or the Democrats.