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Dec 21, 2009 19:09

Kiwi Parliamentarians having a lot of fun during Question time.

Oz ranks in top 10 of gender-equal countries according to World Economic Forum.

About the Oz diaspora (many whom are in fact migrants who have returned to their original countries).

Australians have the world’s biggest houses.

Raising a few issues on the Rudd Government’s Read more... )

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bar_barra December 21 2009, 12:32:35 UTC
Ewww!!! Spam alert! You have a troll....

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Not any more erudito December 21 2009, 13:00:13 UTC
Deleted, banned and reported as spam!

Thanks.

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tcpip December 21 2009, 23:37:14 UTC
I wish the AEC would release the TPP preference flow for Bradfield and Higgins.. It's been a while now.

You'll be pleased to know that one of the better booths for the Sex Party in Higgins was the Methodist Chinese Christian Church. :)

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Irony erudito December 22 2009, 01:20:00 UTC
Does the AEC do TPP if one of the two is a "third Party"?

And yes, that is a nice place irony.

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Re: Irony tcpip December 22 2009, 02:34:54 UTC
Sorry my bad. I meant full distribution of preferences.

The Sex Party vote would have been much higher if they had more people staffing polling booths. They could only manage a third or so. The difference was staggering. In the aforementioned booth they received over 5% of the primaries, but in the other polling booth in the same suburb they received only 1.5%.

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Re: Irony erudito December 22 2009, 03:06:33 UTC
Full distribution is a reasonable thing to want :)

That staffing booths makes a difference is an old lesson of Oz politics. In the first ACT self-government election, an environmentalist independent failed to get elected solely due to failing to staff the pre-election voting venue.

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