John Howard has led this country in a very positive direction. He has proven that if you look after the economy, the constituents will reward you. Thank you for your service to this point John, and I hope it continues after the next election.

Only naive fools vote for politicians Demos!
This is just one of the frustrations - the generalised ignorance of the Sheeple and the greedy self-interest of the effluent 'upper middle class'... including 'executive' public servants who have been well rewarded for their role in selling our common-wealth - at ALL three levels of public administration.
Under our 'democracy' the sheeple are given the opportunity once every 3 or 4 years to change the 'people's representatives', but there is no machinery for removing from office those who plan and 'manage' (control) the system on a day-to-day basis or their colleagues in the corporate world.

For all those here
and you wonder why I created The Australian Peoples Party.
www.tapp.org.au
And since the interest was lacking is why I will be running as an independent.

As we can see in Queensland Labor is starting their run on federalisation, It is that Kevin Rudd is standing back so he is not the one to get muddied.
This is an example of what happens when nobody does anything, or stands up forthemselves.

We are just waiting in NSW for the rail network to be privatised as it is common knowledge within the railway that this will happen, as the premeir,costa and several others at the top have it listed.

So you get what you get.
At election time This is all I can say
When voting, do so as if you are standing there for your family ,neighbours, and electorate.

The question
1 Will you stand and do as you are told or be expelled
or
2 Will you stand and represent the people within your electorate and be independent from them to be able to voice the problems.

I am no upper class pollie just someone who wants to make a difference, but then if the people do not want change then they get what they get and nothing more.

When more people start to stand up and voice and challange these people at election time then we will get real change for the people.

Stuart Ulrich
Independent Candidate for Charlton

Some of you who are also fed up might like to take a look at a US organisation's website

http://www.voidnow.org/

The democracy problem is even worse in the US than here in most ways, because there is no preferential voting and no proportional representation in the Senate. There as here, the two major parties tend to be bipartisan on the issues that really matter and to generally govern in the (short-term) interests of the rich and powerful.

What Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy (VOID) suggests could be translated to the Australian situation by putting all incumbent politicians last on the ballot paper for the House and the incumbent party last on the ballot paper for the Senate. Put the other major party second last. Let the politicians know that you want Proportional Representation as in Europe, Citizen Initiated Referenda, Voter Veto, and Voter Recall, so that politicians who lie to us to get elected can find their stay in Canberra very short. If you really want to twist the knife, give your first preference to whichever buffoon will embarrass them the most. Nothing will concentrate the mind of a politician like seeing his colleagues booted off the gravy train.

Good idea but the problem still is that the people will vote for their parties instead off.

Voting as it is them standing in parliament and representing the people.

Like myself i am trying and some would say very trying but the point is i am having a go.

But what we get is what these parties say, yes its not about us but about them as we keep seeing here.
What should be said is what you really think but the pollies dont care unless they can use it to help their own agenda.

My agenda well its about my family, my neighbours, the people in my street, my neighbourhood, my suburb, my electorate and when it comes down to it, it is what you have to say and if you do not say it, stand up and make these people accountable then its really their way or the highway.

People hasseled me about The Australian Peoples Party but when it came to it the representatives are part of a collective with individual choices, even though being members of a party.

This does not really matter now as not registered but will be running as an independent, same thing but not a member of TAPP.

Why dont we see the others here, saying where they are standing or even if they are game to answer the questions,
Why because they cannot and will not put it straight to the people, they hide like sheep behide their party structure and let others do the dirty work so they dont get their hands dirty.

Like me last week, someone reversed into my car picked up their broken bits and drove off, why is this suss, well i do have two a3 sized posters on my rear windows saying where i am standing, the seat of charlton, then my letter box was ripped out so will keep fighting and even if i do not win my seat at least i was standing for the right thing, the people.

Stuart Ulrich
Independent Candidate for Charlton

Kevin Rudd a lier and hypocrite.

Buying kevin07 T shirts from overseas.
Must have been cheaper labour well more thanlikly slave labour.

No respect for the manufacting sector ,workers ,families or the people that hold Australia together.

Kevin07 what a joke.

The unions dont care as long as they get in, what is a few jobs and a manufacting sector nothing.

Stuart Ulrich
Independent Candidate for Charlton