We call that illustration a Pud.:O:
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/mea...inition-of/pud

Its compulsory once they hit 18

Precisely and thank God it isn't the same here in the UK.

Michelle is on her way to deliver it in person. Don't wait up.

That is true however it's relatively easy to avoid voting if you prefer to do so. Personally I like the fact that the government is decided by a much more representative majority than seeing a low percentage of the population decide who gets in.

There are arguments on both sides but it's the system we have and without it I'd say we'd see voter turn out as low as 10 or 15% if it wasn't compulsory.

Looks like the retribution within the Labor party will be painful for KRudd.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-0...defeat/4943512

Yes and no. This explains it far better than I could: http://www.eca.gov.au/systems/single...eferential.htm

In reality in my electorate

Quota's only come into play in our Senate elections which were held yesterday as well. The result of the Senate won't be completely known for another day or so. Again explanation of the Senate electoral system here: http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/senate_count.htm

But.. but.. that's his daughter!:o

Yes and no. Our Liberal National Party is sometimes referred to as conservative, however they are not really closely aligned to either the Conservative Party in the UK or the Republican Party in the US. They are much more of a centrerist to centre right party with a dose of economic liberalism thrown in for good measure. Some of their actions and policies would horrify the Tories or GOP whilst others see them out to the right of these two. The right wing stuff mainly comes from the National Party side of the coalition, but as they don;t have a massive base their further right ideas get damped down by the Liberals control of the coalition. These two have relatively successfully kept the looser earlier coalition going since 1922,before forming a full formal merger in 2008.

The Labor lefties try to portray them as something far to the right of Ghengis Khan but then the larger part of the Labor Party here is more centrerist than anything and shares a number of similar policy threads with the Coalition. The Greens are very left socially and economically compared to the others but nothing compared to the Libertarians in the US.

That just made ToffBoy's statement look stupid!...http://www.menoutdoors.com/forums/im.../23_30_125.gif


In your face Cameron you Toff.