Great Call John Black, LOL

@ Peter the believer and under one god, Maybe it was Dogs will that Labour should be returned.
We have a live one here in Peter, could someone direct him to some professional help.

one under god posted, on Sunday, 22 March 2009 10:14:59 AM, in the opening paragraph:

"... , [I']m more ama[z]ed at the low voter turnout, ....".

I wonder where one under god got the idea that there has been a low voter turn-out at the Queensland State elections?

Queensland elections results are available from this entry page: http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/asp/index.html

Here are the prerequisites for viewing the tallyboard: http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/asp/ecqTallyboard.html Not much use to any member of the public not running the latest Microsoft operating system, is it? And a minimum half hour download on broadband to boot! The Australian Electoral Commission ran its virtual tallyroom with cross-platform accessibility and no need to download any special package to access the progressive results. How was the ECQ tallyboard meant to be an improvement over the AEC system? Alternatively, what was restricting the access to progressive results meant to help conceal?

Here is the link for the results summary, which you get by clicking the big button at the top of the ECQ site entry page: http://virtualtallyroom.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/state2009/results/summary.html Fortunately, you do not need a special download to view this page.

In a table headed 'Total Formal First Preference Vote by Party' is contained the information that 2,660,940 electors were enrolled at the close of rolls for these elections, and that 1,868,510 votes (including 40,675 informal) had been counted, representing 70.22% of total enrollments. This percentage is annotated with the stylized letters 'TP', explained as "indicates votes counted percentage". This cannot be right.

A simple arithmetical check reveals that the 1,868,510 votes counted represents exactly 70.22% of TOTAL ENROLLMENTS. It does not indicate the percentage counted of total votes claimed at these elections, and consequently cannot be used to derive true voter turnout. Total votes CLAIMED is known as of acquittal in all polling places on election night.

Why is this important information withheld from publication?

Lawrence Springborg didn't bring home the bacon because he didn't have the X-factor. Another thing conspiring against the LNP was the fact that Joh Bjelke Petersen had 18 or so rambling years as Premier that history will some day spend on the other side of the political fence. The Beattie/Bligh/?? administrations could be it.

What the Qld LNP needs to get back in the race is a serious and purposeful leader (a la former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett) who, even if you don't like his politics or personal style, you can respect for his focussed/coherent strategy aimed at busting through blockages and fixing real-world economic problems. He'd need to have talents that the ALP doesn't have and use, and would be ready to take over when the State was on the verge of economic failure.

So, maybe next time round. Although the legacy of Joh might put pay to that.

Chorus of ALP pollies: "Don't you worry about that."

I simply love the condescending types, who wont debate but love to put people down. The world is full of mockers and scoffers, but the reality is over forty percent are unhappy with Anna Bligh, and she is El Presidento of a baanana republic in the great tradition of central America.

When Goss in 1991 exceeded his authority and pulled his State out of the Commonwealth on the supposed authority of the Australia Act 1986, Paul Keating was going to pull him back into line after the 1996 election. Unfortunately a dishonest Liberal Government was elected and it suited them to continue to have a collection of independent Baltic States ruled by the Labor Party. They simply loved the way that Labor States had to beg for money.

Goss pulled Queensland out of Australia by pretending he could abolish the Supreme Court in Queensland as an Australian court by making its rulings bind the Queen in right of the Commonwealth. Likewise he as a lawyer thought the Parliament of Queensland can overrule the Constitution of Australia and that all the civil rights we get from the Constitution can be swept away by simple State legislation.

In September 1996, the High Court ruled that such State Acts were illegal. They locked Einfeld up in New South Wales this week for lying. He should be the first of a veritable parade of Judges and Magistrates throughout Australia who lie every day they sit on a bench and deny the Australian Constitution.

Instead of mocking those who would try to educate them, the people who refuse to face the reality that we do have a Constitution, it does have its roots in the Holy Bible, and it does guarantee the separation of Church and State should take a leaf out of Paul Keating’s book.

He passed the National Competition Policy Act 1995, as a Royal Command to all Australians to start shaping up or ship out. It should have rolled back the banana republics, and given back the courts of Australia to its people. Instead lawyer types allowed the States to run riot