Thought I would start a thread on the election. If this group is similar to the population at large at least 25% of you have probably voted by now, and for the rest of us there are only two more days to go.

So now is a good time to start working out what happened, and why.

You all know how I will be voting, and I won't volunteer a reason here at this stage because I don't want to bias the conversation in any way.

Apart from SA having little effect on federal elections, you wouldn't know there was an election in my electorate, where most voters are happy to keep feeding the laziest, most useless Labor bludger in Parliament.

The uniparty has agreed not to put up any corflutes (at least that's a blessing), and there has been zero campaigning, apart from a flyer from the sitting bozo, and one from some unknown female pretending to be standing against him for the Liberals. Nothing from the Greens and the other 3 or 4 loonies on the ticket.

I will be putting the sitting member last. I'm sure he will still get elected, so my first preference doesn't matter.

In the Senate, I have been able to draw up a list of 12 below the line without having to include Liberal, Labor, Greens or anyone else not at least pretending to be conservative.

To sort things out for good we should split Australia into a conservative half & a woke half for a term just to test which system works !
This could be done by State vs Federal i.e. when there is a Federal Labor Govt all Staes automatically get a conservative Government & vice versa !
The way it is now will never produce an outcome for the good of all !

There will be a multitude of questions asked in Noalition circles as to why, when all the old reactionary men, on OLO voted for Dud Dutton to man, and he still didn't win! Despite the bombardment of anti Labor propaganda on the site, articles mostly by old reactionary men.

"If this group is similar to the population at large" Yeah.... ah!...right O'...similar in what way?

Heard some rumours regarding a couple of Qld High Court Judges quitting years before their due age.
Early jitters of what will be exposed from a Qld type DOGE perhaps ?
I wonder if that will impact last minute voting ?

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Dear Graham,

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I voted just over a week ago and I have to admit that I could not bring myself to vote for my fellow Queenslander, Peter Dutton, because of his inadmissibly cruel treatment of asylum seekers when he became minister for immigration and border protection. Stopping the boat people arriving in Australia is one thing (which I totally approve), treating them cruelly is something else (which I totally disapprove).

As you know, Scott Morrison had held that portfolio prior to Dutton. It was during Morrison’s term of office that the senate passed the most punitive refugee laws Australia had ever seen, giving the immigration minister unprecedented secret and unchallengeable powers. Abbot subsequently passed the portfolio to Dutton who carried out his mission with a total lack of humanity for the asylum seekers imprisoned indefinitely in offshore detention centers.

Prior to that, you will recall that Dutton had been Health Minister. A survey of 1100 doctors conducted by Australian Doctor magazine nominated Dutton as Australia’s worst health minister in 35 years. One GP was quoted calling Dutton the “dullest, least innovative, and most gullible” minister he had ever seen.

I just could not bring myself to vote for him as Prime Minister of Australia.

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