Exactly the same for me. :yep: I was left with no choice this time.

Howard took the Liberal Party down with him. The only question remains how long the party will be in the politcal wilderness. I just can't believe how gutless those within the Liberal party were in not dumping Howard well before the election. Now they only have themselves to blame. :roll:

I have to say that I was a bit of an outside this time living over here in the UK and I didn't keep up to date with the election campaign day to day. However I was embarressed and disgusted with what happened in the Western Sydney seat of Lyndsay where the NSW branch of the Liberal party stooped to race hate Nazi style fake pamphlets. :shifty: What a disgrace. :down: Probably worse was wacky Jackie Kelly and her sorry excuses in trying to defend what her husband did. She should bugger off back to N.Z. and return under that rock from where she came.

That's my 2 Aussie cents. Oh yeah I almost forgot that back home we round to the nearest 5 cents don't we. :lol:

Dose this now mean you don't want our Queen to drop by anymore?

Can't say that it's an issue for me either way. In other words I don't care. :smug:

That could be high treason. ;)

I don't know very much of Australian politics but I dare say that not much will change between the US and Australia. Or Austalia and Britain.

So it's off to the Tower of London and the :/\\chop for me. :lol:

No, not in this day and age. ;)

Your most likely be given £100,000 and a world tour. :rotfl:

On behalf of the board PC Madness

Better a queen that's paid for by another country, than an Aussie president who will cost us a fortune!:shifty:

The relationship between Australia and the US will change more after the U.S. presidential elections. Many democrate senators were unhappy with the free trade agreement that happened under Bush and Howard (don't know why and it's beifited the U.S. more in trade than Australia). Howard didn't spend as much time building bridges with the democrat party as he should, so some do have a chip on there shoulder.

I don't no if they will hold it against Rudd. They could see him as a new chance.

Defence wise the relationship won't change too much, Labour back many of the former goverment's decisions in this area, so they're not going to scrap them.

What if the US decides to scrap them? Agreements always go two ways.

I don't see the U.S. saying to Australia "we don't want you here in Iraq or Afganistain anymore, so go home!" It would also leave America open to the loss of intelligences bases here in Australia, which would be hard to replace in the region.

I certainly will allways have a lot of respect for the Queen & the monarchy,:yep: however I don't have much time for Prince Charles and Camilla!!:nope:

Well, we can always sell Uranium to China or Iran if the USA doesn't play how we want them to. :p

j/k

Absolutely.

I feel the same way, if he's smart he'll abdicate and let his son become the new heir. Otherwise I can guarentee Australia will be leaving the British Empire.

Which kind of sucks... No more kicking ass in the Commonwealth games!

I think England would become a republic before we do!:rotfl: