NationStates Jolt Archive

Australians go to the polls on Saturday Nov 24, eight days from now.

Polls suggest a change of government, with the Parliament going to Labor and no clear majority in the Senate.

Under these conditions, it wouldn't surprise me if some polling-places go unattended by Party volunteers. But I'll be there, "handing out" and trying to win over some of the many people who don't really decide how to vote until they're actually in the polling-place. The "sheep" I call 'em.

In Australia, all the parties call their voting recommendations a "How to Vote" but overseas folk shouldn't take that to mean we're a one-party system. We have the only slightly less dumb system Britain uses ... :p

In the past I've handed out for the Australian Democrats and (long ago) the Australian Labor Party. This year I'll be handing-out for the Greens.

So, Aussies: are any of you "handing-out" on Election day?
Or involved in any other way?

I actually just found out that my polling station is in the hall from my old high school, interesting hey..

I actually just found out that my polling station is in the hall from my old high school, interesting hey..

I've been by my old HS, but I found it kind of depressing. If I still lived near there I'd find some other polling place, they're usually no more than a kilometer apart.

I'm just looking through the Greens policy list now, and there's some things there I will have trouble keeping a straight face for ... but in the past I've found it isn't really the voters who want to argue the case with me, it's the other party's hander-outers. The more minor your party, the worse you get ganged up on and if you don't know all your policies, it's an bad rap.

I'll be handing out how-to-votes for the Greens too.

I'm not old enough to vote yet :cool:

I'm not old enough to vote yet :cool:

You can still hand out how-to-votes cards. I used to do it with my parents when I was at school.

You can still hand out how-to-votes cards. I used to do it with my parents when I was at school.

Hee-hee! Above, I mention handing-out for the Labor Party. That was before I was of voting age. I did it again when I was, but I started because I was "dyed in the wool."

Now, it's the Greens. God help me, that weedy nerd Brown won my heart with his heckling of GWB in the Parliament. Our Parliament does not bow to Kings or inbred puppets.

Our Parliament does not bow to Kings or inbred puppets.
Doesn't your (and our) monarchy have 1)Kings and 2)Inbred puppets?

Doesn't your (and our) monarchy have 1)Kings and 2)Inbred puppets?

Sure. We just don't bow to them.

George W. Bush expecting to be heard in silence in our Parliament, no.

Brown's "this is the parliament of our people, and I will be heard" gave that puppet King a good taste of what we do down here.

Foreign dignitaries deserve respect in our Parliaments when they keep their ignorant mouths shut. They open them, they get heckled!

Sure. We just don't bow to them.

George W. Bush expecting to be heard in silence in our Parliament, no.

Brown's "this is the parliament of our people, and I will be heard" gave that puppet King a good taste of what we do down here.

Foreign dignitaries deserve respect in our Parliaments when they keep their ignorant mouths shut. They open them, they get heckled!
Nice. I wish we could be more like that...

I actually just found out that my polling station is in the hall from my old high school, interesting hey..

my one is the gym of my old high school for all the Elections i had to vote in

no i'am handing out nothing