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Cleretic posted:Yeah but the public needs to have a say by way of this totally optional and non-binding vote for something that's had consistent majority approval for years. I think you'll find those were baseless polls with no scientific backing that were totally wrong unlike this very scientific non compulsory and barely controlled survey.
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Teddybear posted:Quick question from an insomniac American (as I seem to be doing more and more, sorry): with voting compulsory, why does the AEC rely on a voter-updated enrollment list? 20 years ago the aec regularly had people going door to door to update electoral roll. Now they use information from federal and state agencies to work out who needs to update their information. http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/About_Electoral_Roll/Roll_review.htm
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I'm sorry but we won't discuss on-topic matters.
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Refugees to this thread are fine, unless you came here by boat.
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Then it's off to Pet Island.
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I truly hope the plebiscite doesn't come at the cost of any queer kids lives. Letting the debate happen is reckless and puts them in danger.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Pet Island. Don't worry, it's just a name
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NTRabbit posted:Don't worry, it's just a name Its really a stray
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Teddybear posted:I got Australian friends and an interest in politics and it's four in the morning here. Don't let the idiots run you off.. god knows nothing can lower the quality of posting in this thread.  
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KennyTheFish posted:Its really a stray Actually, it's a peninsula
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hooman posted:Don't let the idiots run you off.. god knows nothing can lower the quality of posting in this thread. We could theoretically get some actual ACL or the Mad Monk himself in the thread. That would lower the quality of posting without a doubt.
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We shouldn't allow gay marriage because kids need a mum and a dad. Most paedophiles are gay. How is a kid going to learn to change a car transmission or fix a fridge with two mums? actual things that I've seen on social media over the last couple of days
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100% of australia's social problems are due to golf
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I love how 4Corners can show how hosed the environment is in one week and then have the balls to gently caress up The Greens the next week. 4CORNERS:Everything is hosed
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I'm guessing a lot of these arguments were thrown around during the introduction of no fault divorce and surprisingly we still have plumbers and Bunnings.
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Anidav posted:AUSPOL:Everything is hosed
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KennyTheFish posted:Its really a stray a stray yuh
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Former prime minister Tony Abbott may be the highest profile opponent of same-sex marriage but as the September plebiscite approaches, his own electorate has revealed it overwhelmingly supports gay marriage. Almost 700 residents across the federal electorate of Warringah were asked if same sex couples should be able to get married. Almost seven in 10 (69.7 per cent) agreed they should, 25.7 per cent did not and 4.6 per cent were undecided. The poll was conducted by the left-leaning Australia Institute think tank. Majority support was revealed across all age-groups with the 18-34 bracket leading the charge with 83.9 per cent in favour. Even the age-group with the lowest support, 65 and older, came in at 57.3 per cent in favour. Liberal voters polled 60.3 per cent in favour, Labor voters 88 per cent and every Green polled expressed support. The lowest support came from One Nation voters, of whom 68.3 per cent opposed same-sex marriage and only 22.3 per cent supported it.
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Welp, I guess seven out of ten people that motherfucker represents aren't going to be represented by him when it comes to a vote.
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Vindicator posted:Welp, I guess seven out of ten people that motherfucker represents aren't going to be represented by him when it comes to a vote. I wish his seat wasn't so loving safe. 
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If Abbott's district votes in favour of SSM, has Abbott indicated whether he'll vote for it as an MP?
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No you see, you're mistaking representative democracy for something that is either representative, and/or democratic.
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Don Dongington posted:No you see, you're mistaking representative democracy for something that is either representative, and/or democratic. I'm just trying to picture the mental gymnastics that would have to occur for Abbot to have pushed for this in the manner that he has and then wind up ignoring the results at the end anyway. I know that not being hypocritical hasn't been among his priorities in the past but this would reach a new level of egregiousness and I'm wondering if he's signalled what he plans to do. It'd require a lot of integrity to vote for SSM while declaring that he is personally against it because of how his constituents voted.
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Amazing what freedom people have when they're not an MP https://twitter.com/amandavanstone/status/896293249584779269
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I'm really glad that the whole ultranationalist thing isn't as bad as the US, at least regarding street activism. There are a lot of unabashed nazis relishing in the fact that a car rammed a bunch of antifascists today (almost like a terrorist attack)
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Recoome posted:I'm really glad that the whole ultranationalist thing isn't as bad as the US, at least regarding street activism. There are a lot of unabashed nazis relishing in the fact that a car rammed a bunch of antifascists today (almost like a terrorist attack) Yeah, at least our crazy drivers aren't nazis I guess
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Serrath posted:I'm just trying to picture the mental gymnastics that would have to occur for Abbot to have pushed for this in the manner that he has and then wind up ignoring the results at the end anyway. There's a reason it's a non-binding plebiscite and not a referendum.
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thatbastardken posted:meeting joined by noisy myna Pee wees grew here, mynas flew here. How will this affect lw's leadership ambitions?
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noisy myna is a native, actually. lw will feast on the corpse of rdn and tread his jeweled throne beneath her feet.
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Don Dongington posted:No you see, you're mistaking representative democracy for something that is either representative, and/or democratic. I just want to see him pushed in an interview on why he's not representing his constituency, or even the liberal voters of his, by someone who'll force their way past his prevarication. Then again I want to see him pushed by a no-bullshit interviewer on a lot of things.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:We've already seen what happens when he's confronted with a question he can't answer - he either walks away or he convulses for 90 seconds and then walks away. I'm still sad that that interviewer didn't start shouting in apparent sincerity "Mr Abbott? MR ABBOTT? CAN WE GET SOME HELP OVER HERE I THINK HE'S HAVING A SEIZURE"
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