|
I would blow Dane Cook posted:The Morrison government is expected to formally recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s legitimate capital following a cabinet meeting today, but may delay the relocation of Australia’s embassy from Tel Aviv.
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 01:14
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 19:17 |
|
|
GotLag posted:I went to primary school in the first half of the '90s, and what I learned at school was: I sat the citizenship test a couple of weeks ago and the history section of the material you read for prep was basically as basic as this. I passed btw and got my official approval from David Coleman in the post. As there's a chance I may get to vote in the next election does anyone have a link to a good explanation of how your voting works? It's a wee bit different from what I'm used to and I've never voted for 2 houses before so voting for Senators will be a bit new.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 01:16
|
|
|
norp posted:This seems like such a narrow issue with so much potential downside.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 01:22
|
|
|
Helith posted:I sat the citizenship test a couple of weeks ago and the history section of the material you read for prep was basically as basic as this. Here is a primer done by fellow goon Chicken Parmiagana. It's basically perfect, I just have two notes. 1) Senate voting works basically the same way from a voting perspective. It's a bit more complicated from the other end and crazy people who research every candidate can vote 'below the line' which is a fun way of voting where you number over a hundred boxes instead of like 10, but don't do that. 2) As per this year the 'Nice' party in the comic needs to be renamed to the Sometimes Rapists party.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 01:36
|
|
|
Tony Burke retire bitch
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 01:53
|
|
|
Gentleman Baller posted:Here is a primer done by fellow goon Chicken Parmiagana. It's basically perfect, I just have two notes. Perfect! Thanks.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:23
|
|
|
You should vote below the line if you can, you don't need to number every box. I think it's twelve
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:30
|
|
My first car was a stick
|
Helith posted:I sat the citizenship test a couple of weeks ago and the history section of the material you read for prep was basically as basic as this. The AEC has some official resources: https://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/ In practice there will be volunteers from all major and many minor parties outside each polling place that will hand you a card that says "Number like this to vote for us". You are free (and encouraged) to ignore the cards and number from 1 (best) on down in whatever order you like
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:31
|
|
|
For the Senate you will be instructed to number 6 boxes above the line or 12 below. You can number more if you wish. When you vote above the line (AtL) you are voting for all of that party's candidates in the order displayed. So if you vote 1 Green 2 Labor 3 Liberal you will vote for all the Greens then all the Labor candidates then all the Liberal candidates. In the 2016 election there was a savings provision that meant you only had to vote 1 AtL or 6 BtL. I am not sure if that will be true in 2019. Note that states elections are done with different rules. The close proximity of the NSW election to the Federal Election is going to push up the informal vote.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:35
|
|
|
oi m8 sum chav nicked the mace
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:36
|
|
|
Gentleman Baller posted:Here is a primer done by fellow goon Chicken Parmiagana. It's basically perfect, I just have two notes. I remember a few years ago for the Vic election there was a website where you could fill in your Senate ballot ahead of time and save it on your phone as a PDF. Then you can just write the numbers in to make sure Family First gets as little of your vote as possible, without having to stand at the polling booth for 20 minutes trying to remember the difference between the Democratic Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Party. It has links to the parties' websites and the preference deals they had made.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 02:41
|
|
|
If I become a citizen before May I'm going to have to do so much reading up on NSW senators and Senate parties because I don't really know anything about them at the moment. I know where my lower house votes will go though, that's easy and familiar and I know what the parties there stand for.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:01
|
|
|
The AEC really should make it easier to see your local candidates policies on their website. And if your candidate doesn't have any policies well then that's telling too.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:07
|
|
|
snoremac posted:Liberals want us to continue to be America's vassal.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:35
|
|
|
LOL the US have a "Yay for coal!" party at an environmental conference and Australia was the only other country that joined in. Also gently caress the idea of moving the Australian embassy in Israel, is Scummo that tone deaf about how it is going to piss off nations near us like Indonesia and Malaysia?
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:37
|
|
|
Most Australians have no idea that Muslims live in nearby Asian countries.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:39
|
|
|
Or the largest Muslim country in the world is also the one which contains Bali.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:44
|
|
|
Gotta please Hillsong somehow.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:45
|
|
|
Megillah Gorilla posted:Or the largest Muslim country in the world is also the one which contains Bali. Most australians think that Bali and indonesia are separate things.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:46
|
|
|
JBP posted:Most Australians have no idea that Muslims live in nearby Asian countries. Megillah Gorilla posted:Or the largest Muslim country in the world is also the one which contains Bali. Well they are going to get a quick lesson when the extremists in those countries start targeting Australian tourists.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:53
|
|
|
You Am I posted:Well they are going to get a quick lesson when the extremists in those countries start targeting Australian tourists. They blew up a pub once and no one cared in a year's time. e: gently caress that was 2002 
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:57
|
|
|
A lot more people knew 10-15 years ago when there were attacks like the Bali Bombing or the various hotel / embassy attacks from Jemaah Islamiyah. It also lead to this amazing statement: In 2004 Alexander Downer posted:If the Indonesians rang us up and said there's a terrorist group in the Kimberleys who are planning to launch an attack on Kupang, and we said: 'Well, we really don't care, that's your problem, pal, and we're not going to do anything about it', and they sent an F-16 over and bombed the terrorist group, you could understand that.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 03:57
|
|
|
Laserface posted:Most australians think that Bali and indonesia are separate things. The public meltdown in Australia when every few years the Indonesian government floats the idea of banning alcohol is always amazing.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:09
|
|
|
Victorian upper house results coming in.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:26
|
|
|
Fiona pattern got back in? Edit: yup https://twitter.com/FionaPattenMLC/status/1072332973901578242?s=19 drunkill fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Dec 11, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:28
|
|
|
So the idea got me reading up on whatever public opinion polls I could find about Australian-Indonesian relationships. This one from 2016 seems pretty comprehensive. Indonesians hold Australia in high regards. Somehow Australia has clawed its way up in the favourability rankings to third place, with a net favourability of 77% Australians hold Indonesia in low regards. Net favourability of negative four percent. Seventy six percent of Australians believe Asia is the most important region for Australia's future, however, 14% of Australians could not name any country in the region, another 12% could only name one country in the region. Unsurprisingly, not a single Indonesian was incapable of naming another country in the region. Most hilariously, 66% of Indonesians consider Australia to be a good neighbour.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:34
|
|
|
Gentleman Baller posted:So the idea got me reading up on whatever public opinion polls I could find about Australian-Indonesian relationships. This one from 2016 seems pretty comprehensive. What the gently caress.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:37
|
|
|
Gentleman Baller posted:Most hilariously, 66% of Indonesians consider Australia to be a good neighbour. Low standards combined with the two sweetest words in the English language: De fault!
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:39
|
|
|
Gentleman Baller posted:Most hilariously, 66% of Indonesians consider Australia to be a good neighbour. I'm sorry but why would they not? We send more aid to Indonesia than anywhere, trade heavily, holiday there, their President in companion to the Order of Australia... Do you think Indonesians harbour some universal love for asylum seekers? e: all the Indonesians I know give us too much credit for being free of corruption in politics as well. Indonesia can be a pretty poo poo place.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:48
|
|
|
I wonder what the opinion of Balinese Indonesians are.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 04:52
|
|
|
Western Met upper house: Cesar Melhem (Labor); Bernie Finn (Liberal); Ingrid Stitt (Labor); Kaushaliya Veghela (Labor); Catherine Cumming (Hinch).
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:00
|
|
|
We have hot The Narrative Wars over property From the smh House price falls across Sydney and Melbourne are accelerating according to new data that shows the nation's key property markets are facing their most challenging period in a decade. The Australian Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday reported capital city prices fell by 1.5 per cent in the three months to the end of September. But from news Corp! Despite dire predictions this week of a looming collapse of the property market, which would trigger economic disaster, new figures show a lift in the number of recent homebuyers. Housing finance data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed an increase in both the number and total value of mortgages issued in October. Throughout the month, 52,654 loans were approved, up 2.2 per cent on September, which experts say represents rare good news. IT BEGINS
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:04
|
|
|
i had a quick count through the election results on vec, i think it was 18 ALP, 1 green, 2 hinches and Fiona Patten, so they'd only need to swing two of the hinches or fiona. Fiona's done a lot with them last term so i think she'd be on board with a lot of the alp stuff this next term. just would depend on hinch party
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:06
|
|
|
are they gonna gently caress off group tickets this term?
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:08
|
|
|
JBP posted:I'm sorry but why would they not? We send more aid to Indonesia than anywhere, trade heavily, holiday there, their President in companion to the Order of Australia... Do you think Indonesians harbour some universal love for asylum seekers? Surely if they love Asylum seekers they must love us sending all the ones coming to Australia by boat back? I usually use Australia's aid to Indonesia as an example of how effective aid spending actually is, we have been cutting that though. But really I am referring to stuff like Australia bugging their embassies and at least attempting to bug their President, blaming Indonesia for the Bali bombings. I don't know we kind of come off as horrible neighbors to me. Gentleman Baller fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Dec 11, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:08
|
|
|
oh and ajp or whatever they do
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:10
|
|
|
 rip greens. all hail the 1000 year labor reich
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:14
|
|
|
Gentleman Baller posted:Surely if they love Asylum seekers they must love us sending all the ones coming to Australia by boat back? It's an aspirational country in many ways and we are seen as a fat, rich modern democracy. They also blame us for loads of poo poo in their local papers and politics btw. It's all stuff no one cares about when they're drinking a magic mushroom sundae in Kuta or attending a full fee university in regional New South Wales. Also they have to front up t China a lot and when China is your big radar occupier, Australia would seem like a benevolent or slightly ambivalent sometimes chum.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:17
|
|
|
drunkill posted:
I hate Sustainable Australia and the fat taxi driver party being in there, but at least the Aussie Battler Party are nowhere to be seen. Also 2 libdems :/
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:18
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 19:17 |
|
|
JBP posted:I hate Sustainable Australia and the fat taxi driver party being in there, but at least the Aussie Battler Party are nowhere to be seen. and that loving australia health party, the anti vaxxers. sustainable australia were anti immigration i think? also lol @ shooters and nats.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2018 05:20
|
|