Grumpy Old Nasho

Australia is the Titanic now ... just check the election results as they come in. The dumb major parties will be watching their preference votes more closely than their primary votes.

No because other useless and unnecessary bureaucracy would go the way of the Dodo.

Yeah it would be large, and nationwide, about a thousands members to start with, with different jobs for different members, all working together in harmony, each backing the other up, one for all, all for one.

Yes we need a bill-of-rights, and it should be a very long list of rights.

It's only preference voting that props up minority tallies here, so no real difference. The same duopoly gets in every election.

I don't know why they don't bring it in for the common voters, it would be near impossible then to scribble nasty graffiti on the on-line virtual ballot paper.

I've been to plenty of polling booths, just not lately.

I could get any girl I want, a lady working in a shop once told me. The thing is, she didn't tell me how.

Give it up, I haven't met a nice lady at a polling booth yet.

No problems facthunter. It's one of those adventures you go on with an open mind and reap the rewards if you don't stuff up. That's how I'm looking at it.

You did raise a family onetrack? I was only guessing there.

I'm meeting a potential girlfriend in a few days time, a long way from here, about 250ks, she's the most beautiful and wonderful lady I ever talked to. I simply don't deserve her, but I'm meeting her anyway. She's taking me out for lunch and I'll talk my head off attempting to persuade her to join me in a long term relationship. Her ex conscript husband died, R.I.P, great bloke from all accounts. He was a bit like onetrack, endured the setbacks, then got back on his feet to work and raise a family.

Australia is in a minority of compulsory voting nations. It's quite strange how we believe so fervently in majority rule, then shun that principle on an international basis. Why are we in the UN?

It's a different matter when the Govt (or AEC) creates a disadvantage. They make voting compulsory, but then make it unnecessarily difficult to carry out their order. It's not where I chose to live, it's the Govt's pigheadedness to lighten the load when we are under duress to obey their dictatorial demand.

It would work perhaps if a $50 bottle of wine and card are left in the letter box at Christmas time, suitably hidden so only the postie can find it. Otherwise the postie has the right to refuse to deliver mail back to the Center.