This test will identify which of the major Australian political parties most aligns with your views. Just a little something to get you thinking in the lead up to both the elections this year!
It is v. interesting if not a little scary

http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/?page_id=20

The link didn't work.

I did find this though: http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/politics-test

Here are my results: http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/politics-test/?id=cc46bdc9d2a8a68db8ddb33c770d3769

The trouble I find with many of these tests is that they often set up a dichotomy that provides no agreeable position.

This seems to work
http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/?page_id=206

That's really funny! I know I have fairly conservative values, but didnt think I'd end up being recommended to vote One Nation! Its quite an interesting analysis though. Despite the fact that I appear to move between centre right to centre left on most issues, I apparently fit One Nation purely on my values system. I am still completely undecided when it comes to voting in the State election next week. Neither major party at the state level is worth 2 cents, let alone the salaries they get paid. The management of NSW has been a joke, but despite that, the opposition cant offer a viable alternative. God help us.

michael2,

For a while there, in counterpoint to the commendable brevity of your opening post, I thought you had found a brilliant and oh-so-topical way around the 350 word limit with your first link. You know, one picture being worth a thousand words, and all that. "Not found. You are looking for something that is not here.". Priceless! The message shown, from memory, against a photographic background of an empty (I think Senate) chamber. I nearly fell off my seat laughing! When shorbe posted "The link didn't work" I was sorely tempted to post "Yes it did!", but on reflection felt it would be too much obvious fact and not enough obscure bigoted opinion to waste a post upon in actually saying so.

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". The amended link in your second post did work. I was glad I hadn't posted immediately in response to shorbe, to later only appear a rotten little killjoy, seemingly ridiculing other contributors to the forum, and maybe misleading them to boot. I was now able to get down to some much more serious fun. He he, not good news for any genuine political party trying to appeal to the claimedly true biases of at least the sample responding to the survey, is it? Some big ones don't seem to have many prospective passengers, whilst in other cases large crowds of prospective passengers have had no boat come to pick them up! Dear, dear!

You must have cut a bit close to the bone, michael2, with the volk at Oz Politic, or with some interest group to which they must answer, because when I rechecked your first link (the one that allegedly didn't work, he he) just prior to posting this, I found that the photographic background of the empty chamber is no longer there! Maybe its the Oldtimer's disease, but I'm sure I saw it the first time I clicked that link.

BTW, thanks for the Terra Preta links.

Interestingly I found myself with a Labor recommendation. From what I could find it was on the Traditional Values bit.

Not how I see myself, Labor has to much of a habit of targetting me to help their priorities.
- I'm a white, male, a single dad, long term employed, australian born english speaking with no significant disabilities.

Labors natural prey when they want someone to blame for someone elses hardships.

R0bert

Glad to see the results pretty much confirmed what I suspected - centre left, with the Democrats being the primary selection, and the ALP hovering close behind.

Of course, the test can't take various minutiae into account - whilst one can approve of the ALP policy in theory, in practice, the ALP is a very different party and is more beholden to unionism than wage regulation.

There isn't a mechanism there for choosing independents, though I can't conceive of how this could be properly factored in.

Well Done Country girl,you have now discovered that Pauline Hanson has for years been supporting your own policies.
Like most of us we spend more time chasing the "Yanky Dollar".
We should spend our time on looking after Australian,both locals and indigienous instead of letting our governments,waste millions on overseas investments of taxes and Superannuantions.
It is time to implement more investment in Australia,stop our Aussie dollar weaking by the day as it has over the last forty years.
Our biggest export is our natural resourses we need a high aussie dollar to capitalise on our wealth.
The Aussie Dollar was and should be the highest value currency in the world.
With such a small population and with natural wealth we should value the AUD$ at $1:20US or 80pUK.
Why are Arabian gulf states offering their citizens,and workers TAX FREE incomes yet our LIB/LAB governments keep of thinking of more and more ways to tax us and levy us.
WAKE UP AUSTRALIA.

"We should spend our time on looking after Australian,both locals and indigienous instead of letting our governments,waste millions on overseas investments of taxes and Superannuantions."

BROCK: I'm a little unclear on your point here, so forgive me if I've misinterpreted you. One of the basic principles of investment is diversification. You don't put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. At a national level, if we did, we truly would be a banana republic. Hence, investors from individuals to gigantic managed funds or even the government, spread things around, including overseas. Otherwise, if one market tanks, they do their shirts.

Also, far be it for me to defend governments and taxation (since I'm not exactly enamoured with either), but without taxation and government, social services don't get provided (even if inefficiently) and you have to rely on a user pays system. That's fine by me to a fair extent, but I suspect if we actually did go down that route, then a lot of people (possibly including you) would complain about the average person being at a huge disadvantage. When people think "nice place to live" they don't think the Arab Gulf states, for a whole lot of reasons.

Oh noooo, I’m a bleeding-heart leftie! (:>()

And what is even worse, I’m most closely aligned to Labor!

A Labor sympathizing bleeding-heart leftie, now there’s a concept!!

So much for that silly test!

http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/politics-test/?id=6af30239d8b779f459187179ce500422

Dear Shorbe
If Australia is such a great place to be in then why not invest in it's future growth.
That is what I mean by trying to keep your investments in Australia.
Our Superannuations are currently being gambled in the Chinese and other relatively new stockmarkets where insider trading is the "norm".
As with all investments we should not look at a short term gain,as is currently the practise by our funds managers.
Most of these funds and banks are only looking at their get rich quick statgegy and not looking after the national interest.
The NAB is a classic example of opening up in Northern Ireland,waiting for the Peace,then makingin a "killing",unfortunately the IRA thought it might be a great bank to rob.
Shorbe,regarding Taxation, if countries with small populations think that PAYE is not a good idea.Why do our governments still try to empty the few Aussies pockets who pay PAYE.
We have a host of other taxes,Water Rates,Council Rates,Royalties Tax,State Taxes and Levies,Business Taxes,Company Tax,I might have left out a hundred others but I think you understand my point how our government has managed to dupe the paying public into getting enough revenue without the poorest of the poor (earning less than
$35,000 or less,)having to pay PAYE.

BROCK: I think you missed my point about diversification. The reason people wouldn't/shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket is because if something goes wrong with that basket (the Australian economy, or even more narrowly, a segment thereof), there's big trouble. By diversifying across several markets, you minimise risk.

I think it's more complicated than you point out. Part of the national interest involves more than simply building Australian businesses, although that's obviously a large part of it. I do think we need to be doing more to promote certain industries in this country (namely scientific and medical research, alternative fuel technologies, etc.), but some (most secondary industries) are simply unviable in many ways (unless we're willing to impose tarriffs or people suddenly start buying Australian), and so it may actually be worth us investing in those industries in other countries for two reasons. The first is that it provides revenue and/or capital growth for our investments, as well as diversification against risk. The second is that those industries overseas may then require input from our industries that are viable. Creating or expanding markets overseas is actually beneficial for us. I think there's a role for primary industry in this country, and we should be energetically pursuing high end R&D and manufacturing, but traditional manufacturing is a waste of effort.

My own position on taxation is that I would prefer a user pays system, even if that would disadvantage certain segments of society. I don't think government bureaucracy uses taxation efficiently, and I resent re-distributive economics. However, I realise I'm very much out of line with most Australians. As such, people have to accept that if they want government, they're going to have to pay tax, and inefficiencies are very much part and parcel of that. You can make adjustments here or there to advantage or disadvantage one or more groups, but you're not going to change the underlying nature of the system.

I came up Green but at only 61.8%, Blimey ! !

Part 1
“Life beyond the grave is real. The Bible proves it. Jesus proves it.”
Posted by coach, Friday, 27 April 2007 8:32:41 PM

OK some 30 odd years ago my father-in-law told me that he had seen many dead people during WWII and to him I was dead! (After an industrial accident)
Well, whatever happened I am still alive and I might have looked death but darn I could not resist to live real life a bit longer. More then the length I had lived then so far.

I didn’t see any pearly gates! I didn’t see any angles. So, while for others I appeared to be dead, to me I never saw anything.
To my father-in-law I had a resurrection but to me it was simply that I was kicking on and while the fat lady might have been singing it certainly was not my time, at least I held so.
If life beyond the grave is real, is that meaning that I was resurrected and have a life as such?
As to “The Bible proves it”, so far I known there were those people at the time, or some hundreds of years later who were basically playing bingo with scripts and decided what was in and what was out. Like anything that portrayed Judas to be les then the evil traitor seemed not suitable for inclusion. Now, that is like the unsworn affidavit of a witness that is withdrawn the moment any reliable evidence is presented that counteract what was alleged.
“Jesus proves it”, well I could not have been closer to death then I was, as otherwise it would have been a permanent departure, yet, I have neither seen Jesus in real life on earth or in the death I was about to face.
http://www.schorel-hlavka.com

Part 2
Basically, I had the real experiences and didn’t like the darkness, not even any hell fire to light up the place, and so it was not attractive enough to me and I for one cannot make out how on earth anyone could have a life after death in such darkness, unless they happen to have a power strike or so on that it was so dark. Then again, perhaps they had a blackout deliberately to make it unattractive for me to stay over that side and so convinced me to better stay on the brighter side of life. So whatever any religion portrays in the after life, was all black to me and if the afterlife in continuation of my normal life then I better make now the best of it while I can.
How on earth “Jesus proves it”, when you can only imagine him, is also beyond me.
http://www.schorel-hlavka.com

Sorry posts were put on the wrong page. that is what happens leaving windows open and then pasting in without first checking it out.
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