Australia votes in left wing government

[Mr-Fusion]

MASSIVE WORLD POLITICAL NEWS! (Did anyone actually know there was an Australian election today...?)

The right wing govt of 11 years has been voted out, finally. The cycle of balance goes on.

Just a heads up.

Kevin Rudd is Australia's new Prime Minister.

 

[Jintor]

**** yeah.

Lol, my family had no voting power. They're all non-citizens, but for the underaged kids.

Just finished watching Howard's concedance speech and am now watching Rudd's acceptance speech.

 

[Kyorisu]

Big ****ing surprise there.

1. Broken promises.
2. Rising interest rates.
3. Work choices.

Not only has he lost his own seat but several of his parties in every state.

 

[The Monkey]

Yes, I read about it in the paper this morning.

 

[Jintor]

Yes, I read about it in the paper this morning.

D:

Labour victory was anounced mere hours ago. Timezones! D:

 

[Avoidist]

The king is dead. Long live the king!

This will certainly be interesting. Hopefully we actually get that new broadband he's been promising.

 

[The Monkey]

D:

Labour victory was anounced mere hours ago. Timezones! D:

Our reporters can time travel.

You mean yours can't? :O

 

[Solaris]

Hurrah!

 

[Kyorisu]

Now to watch the unions and senate mess Rudd up.

 

[kriztov]

I saw it. Its good for us. Yay for Australia.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

About freaking time someone voted in some left guys.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Hurrah I guess!

Lol, my family had no voting power. They're all non-citizens

You what?

 

[Raziaar]

Not only has he lost his own seat but several of his parties in every state.

Australia has states?

 

[Gray Fox]

Are they like the labour party in Britain, if so then i wouldn't call them left wing, nearly less rightwing.

 

[PortalStormzzzz]

I don't know shat about Australian politics. Can anyone tell me each parties policies and things they stand on?

 

[Avoidist]

Liberal party are right-wing. Very economic conservative, general campaign was based around their strong economic management and anti-unionism.

Labor party is pretty much all over the place. Rudd (new PM) is quite conservative and moved a lot of the party policy to the right. There are still a lot of lefties in the party (notably deputy PM Julia Gillard), and as the Liberals argued, a lot of ex-union members. Campaign was basically on new leadership, health, education and abolishing "WorkChoices" which was introduced by the liberal party and supposedly removed many worker's rights.

 

[PortalStormzzzz]

ok. Sounds like the right man won.

 

[Jintor]

Hurrah I guess!

You what?

My parents are non-citizens, just permenant residents. Until they take a citizenship test and become Australian citizens, they have no formal voting power.

Me and my brother are Australian citizens but we can't vote until we're 18.

 

[PortalStormzzzz]

how long has your family been inside Australia?

 

[Kyorisu]

Australia has states?

Yes you may notice how my location is South Australia. We also have Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Anyway one of the things that kicked Howard out was Work Choices. Basically it's a system that lets each employee bargain with their boss on an even level. This is great if you actually have any negotiation skills and can notice a good/bad deal when you see it. However, for the vast majority this isn't the case and hence fairness test where introduced to try and stop employers getting away with ripping the common masses off. Just the same the system is in the no way perfect and many people where screwed over regardless.

Work choices goes hand in hand with Howard's Industrial Relations laws which have a focus on each worker having an individual contract with their employer rather than everyone who has the same task receiving the same deal.

 

[15357]

OMG! BOMB AUSTRAILIA!


I feel pity for the poor aussies.

 

[Raziaar]

Yes you may notice how my location is South Australia. We also have Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

I figured those were all just provinces, not states. I know they are almost the same thing(country subdivision), but it always seemed to me the rest of the world had issue with the term 'state' and instead used provinces.

 

[Operational]

Well I voted for Rudd but he makes me nervous, I really hope he doesn't **** things up.

Yes you may notice how my location is South Australia. We also have Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Two of which are not states

 

[kirovman]

If you love Australia so much, why don't you marry it?

 

[Jintor]

how long has your family been inside Australia?

20 years or so.

OMG! BOMB AUSTRAILIA!


I feel pity for the poor aussies.

Nothing wrong with having more than one political party in power once in a while.

I figured those were all just provinces, not states. I know they are almost the same thing(country subdivision), but it always seemed to me the rest of the world had issue with the term 'state' and instead used provinces.

Even the United States? D:

Our states are roughly equivilent to theirs.

 

[PortalStormzzzz]

if your family has been in there for 20 years , why aren't they citizens yet???

In the US, your here fore 10-15 years then automatically a citizen. I think it's 10-15 years that is.

hmmm.

Yea, a new political party is always great, as long as they don't mess things up.

 

[The Monkey]

I figured those were all just provinces, not states. I know they are almost the same thing(country subdivision), but it always seemed to me the rest of the world had issue with the term 'state' and instead used provinces.

Most federations in the world use the term "state" as far as I'm aware.

 

[Jintor]

if your family has been in there for 20 years , why aren't they citizens yet???

Because our system works differently?

There's not much more to it than that.

 

[PortalStormzzzz]

ok. Just seems that you've been there for so long and they still don't consider you civilians in kind of odd.

 

[Jintor]

No, we're residents. We're not citizens. Well, me and my brother are, because we're born here. My parents still hold Malaysian Citizenship, that's all.

 

[PortalStormzzzz]

Just seems that after two decades they should have representational rights in the government.

 

[Jintor]

They can, if they apply. If they don't want to, it's not compulsary.

 

[15357]

Nothing wrong with having more than one political party in power once in a while.

Yeah, that's what we said at the last election, and now we can't wait to change it back to a sane, right-wing, conservative goverment, aka the Grand National Party.


Left wing parties ****ed up the economy to no ends.

 

[Jintor]

That's a gross generalisation. Mayhaps true though, because we've had a stable economy and an increasing lack of rights because of 'anti-terror laws' for the past 11 years. Mehopes this'll be another Whitlam government. In anycase, the Liberals are hopelessly lost atm with the retirement of Howard, and in no position to do anything.

 

[Kyorisu]

Two of which are not states

Which is sort of implied with the word territory at the end.

Left wing parties ****ed up the economy to no ends.

/Snicker. More like moderately left of center party.

The liberals had been riding out an economic boom setup by the previous labor government. Funny that. Anyway a switch to labor is a good thing and heres why

Rudd will demonstrate to Asia that his government is more independent of Washington through his commitment to withdraw combat troops from Iraq and sign the Kyoto Accord on reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and combating global warming.

Well maybe not so much the latter part because I really don't care, but troops out of Iraq = awesome.

 

[Tyguy]

Austria!? G'day mate...lets put another shriiiimp on the baaaaarbie