Grumpy Old Nasho

The National Party got only about 1,700 votes lol Pleases me no end to see that.

Voting is compulsory, so the onus is on Electoral Commissions to make voting easy for citizens.

Mobile polling booths - what's wrong with those? That's what we need out here.

Great news, hey!

There's three types of voters in the bush, the rusted-on ones who have favorite parties and would travel to the Moon to vote for them. Then there's ones who think two party democracy is better than the old Soviet Union and would travel the same distance to vote. And the ones that want to avoid paying the fine because they believe they'll end up in jail if they don't vote. I'm the odd one out, I won't travel any more than the specified distance of 8km. The nearest polling booth is 37km away. Some other reluctant voters are so scared of the AEC, they meekly spend a total half day going to vote, and there's not even as much as a sausage sizzle at the polling booth when they get there. Now, as well as that, the voters get nothing for their effort, nothing is done out here in the bush, it's dying, vegetation and wild critters are taking over. I can never understand why anyone would want to vote when they get nothing in return. The big cities get it all, that's where the money is spent, where all the immigrants are. If you're a traditional Anglo Aussie in the bush, you'll get nothing, it's not fashionable to spend money on us. It's a racial thing. Traditional Aussies are looked down upon, don't let anyone tell you different. Same in the UK, they're having a terrible time, they can blame Tony Blair for that. Here in Australia, we can blame Whitlam, Grassby, and a host of other Labor prime ministers and ministers. Some Liberal idiots included in that as well, Fraser for example. I pay the fail-to-vote fine because it's convenient, on the computer, and I'm not really supporting the "enemy" AEC because one day they are going to have to wake up and apply their legal requirements sensibly. There's so many anomalies that if voters banded together and complained in unison, the AEC would have no alternative but to fix then all. On of those anomalies is the long distance to the nearest PO mail box, for a postal vote if your mailman can't or won't take your voting documents back to the Post Office for you. The nearest PO mailing may be, and often is, a very long way away, requiring a tiring trip in the car.

The final fine notices I get for not voting don't have written on them what they're for. I have asked ladies at Service NSW, and they don't know either, they only know I have to pay a fine. I pay them, guessing they're for failing to vote.

What you failed to mention is that they can also put your house up for sale to recoup money owed. When One Nation gets in, they'll put a stop to that rotten tyrannical legislation.

I've been saying for years that we have a tyrannical ruling political elite (the two major parties).

That's a bit old. One Nation has 4 seats. It should be more because so far they have 22% of the vote. Labor has 33 seats with only 37% of the vote. The Liberals have 6 seats with 19%

I said "Lefty" progressive mindset. Ordinary progress need not have any politics behind it, and shouldn't. Governments should only debate whether there is enough funding for new infrastructure and who needs it urgently, not whether it's good for their particular section of the community. That's the problem with fighting factions, each faction favors itself.

How's that policy going, any reduction in youth crime yet?

The Qld Premier has that policy of reducing youth crime ...who wouldn't vote for premier like that? Unfortunately NSW has no such premier.

Please explain? I make my own happiness, my own luck, and excitement ... and to do that, I had to adopt One Nation's policy mindset after bitter experiences living in multicultural Sydney. It's a long story, but Sydney is not the place for me anymore. It used to be before 1980 but things have got so far out of hand there since then, one wonders what's going to become of it. Thankfully, there are locations in Australia that will hopefully never be touched by terrorism and government sponsored antagonism of Aussie Anglos, and I think I'm living in one of those places now, out here in the bush, living among my fellow traditional Aussies. If I was supposed to engage in "white flight", then I was more than happy to do that.

Late post, Internet connection dropped out after I composed this the other day. It got saved waiting for me to hit the "Submit Reply" button. Connection is all good now so hitting the button. I started planning for those contingencies years ago. Bitter experiences in the past taught me not to take anything for granted, so I don't.

ON is minor party status now, soon they'll be major party status.

SBS would certainly be criticized and something done about them, but the ABC will be left intact and asked to drop their lefty progressive mindset.

Yes One Nation just did OK, quite encouraging. We should urge them on to bring about a bright future for all Australians in all States.

Just the same, we need massive change. The major parties have ignored the disenfranchised for far too long and now it's catching up with them. They've also swapped Australianism for Internationalism, and now they're paying for that too.

If One Nation ends up with 22% of the vote, they should be entitled to 22% of the seats.

Local Councils have have most of the say, and small communities within the Councils areas of control have to beg for crumbs. Presently, Local Councils are skint and can't provide much more than basic services within their tight budgets. Candidates running for Council say "Vote for me, Vote for me", then when elected, they're never seen again, let alone be seen to be doing anything for the small communities. They just become faceless creatures trying to hide the promises they made. Our Community Committee, which has a determined President and Secretary, stick it up the Council and get them to get off their asses, so to speak, and get answers in fairly quick time, and get changes made that are sensible and viable. If it was left up to the Council, we'd only get what it wants to do, which would be very inefficient and create resentment among the locals. There have been decisions made by Council for our small community that have been absolutely absurd. Enter our President and Secretary to get the Council to see the error of their ways and change things so they make sense. Local Committees with nothing to lose, can be quite powerful. We need more of them, even large ones to keep governments in line, as well as Local Councils.

Yes easily. In principle, just expand it to include those extra provisions.

Did you see that Jerry? ... "Preferences help, but major parties still dominate outcomes" Minor parties need to become major parties before they can govern OZ, unless of course two or more join forces as one large party, but with still no guarantee of winning seats in Parliament, in which case, if they don't, their votes will have no value. We need a system where every vote has value, a PR system.

We have a Community Committee here in the bush where I live. It is more useful than any politician. There's no politics or ideologies, only just working on issues to make things better for us in the immediate area. Lobbying the local Council is usually necessary for larger issues. We hold community meetings with eats and drinks afterwards, no outside politicians to spoil anything. The rest of Australia could learn from us, just work on issues, not who's best at doing them, but just getting them done.

My internet has slowed right up, got to fix things here.

I said a quota of votes. If One Nation had won, I'd be still advocating for Proportional Representation. It would temper any extreme policies of governing parties.