Politics: Policies.
Here's a useful site that asks you a serious of questions on policies, and gives you how close the parties are to what you want:
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/vote-a-matic/index.html
Useful online sum ups:
Health, Education, Immigration, Climate Change, Parental Leave, Internet, Economy:
http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/policies/
Environment, Health, Education, Immigration, Work, Economy, Family, Communication, Leadership:
http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/policies
Overseas aid:
http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/assets/pdf/Make_Poverty_History_Policy_Report_Card_2010.pdf
Not much is happening, the parties are agreed on:
[b]Using the environment as a political football.[/b] No one is prepared to support anyone else's policies, and they are all accusing each other of refusing to negotiate. According to my spy, the major problem is that people care about the environment when things are going well, so the GFC has sunk any serious work here.
[b]Opposing the death penalty.[/b] How could this came up when Aus hasn't had the death penalty since 1964? It was abolished by the state governments decades ago; the federal government decided to pass a purely symbolic (and probably only constitutional due to international treaties) law outlawing it last year, to paroxyms of joy from our local candidates. That a purely symbolic law can make it into this list shows how little is happening...Gary Humphries used the passage of this legislation to call on the Indonesian government to waive the application of the death penalty in the case of the Bali Nine.
Hopefully I'll do one last post on our minor parties/independants before the election.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/vote-a-matic/index.html
Useful online sum ups:
Health, Education, Immigration, Climate Change, Parental Leave, Internet, Economy:
http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/policies/
Environment, Health, Education, Immigration, Work, Economy, Family, Communication, Leadership:
http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/policies
Overseas aid:
http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/assets/pdf/Make_Poverty_History_Policy_Report_Card_2010.pdf
Not much is happening, the parties are agreed on:
[b]Using the environment as a political football.[/b] No one is prepared to support anyone else's policies, and they are all accusing each other of refusing to negotiate. According to my spy, the major problem is that people care about the environment when things are going well, so the GFC has sunk any serious work here.
[b]Opposing the death penalty.[/b] How could this came up when Aus hasn't had the death penalty since 1964? It was abolished by the state governments decades ago; the federal government decided to pass a purely symbolic (and probably only constitutional due to international treaties) law outlawing it last year, to paroxyms of joy from our local candidates. That a purely symbolic law can make it into this list shows how little is happening...Gary Humphries used the passage of this legislation to call on the Indonesian government to waive the application of the death penalty in the case of the Bali Nine.
Hopefully I'll do one last post on our minor parties/independants before the election.