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I watched it... it was on at like 9am here Germany won :o Basically a singer from each country in Yoorup sang and then all the Yoorupean countries voted by giving points to other Yoorupean countries -> 1 to 7 points and then 8, 10 and 12 that they can give out.

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Well done to the new PM!

Ah thats what we do Sometimes the candidate that wins isn't the one who wins the popular vote :p

Quote from Aleksandr: “Was Australia and Canada able to vote in this election? I think they're members of the British Empire.” Oh of course! See we voted too and then they flew the boxes to the UK for counting see our voting ended 8 hours before yours, so they got it to the UK asap on a specially designed army concorde with maximum security We send our own MP too our seat is called Australia, of course, and Canada, South Africa, US (they were once Britain! ;)), New Zealand and many other countri…

What is AV? And isn't a Lib/Con coalition the same as a Con minority govt?

Thats why you need to whip your population into shape they'll learn

Quote from Esmo: “Not really, because in the grand scheme of things not enough people were affected to change the results, I think. I can't know for sure though, as I don't know whether any marginals or tight-majority seats had those problems.” I know if there is a marginal seat and the result is very close, and if there is any problem in the voting the AEC normally takes the result as invalid. Quote from Techno Viking: “Compulsory voting doesn't sound sensible to me. There are many people who d…

If people missed out, does that mean that the result isn't really that accurate?

We have compulsory voting, and I find it just means more people go into the polling booth, get all the fact sheets from the political representatives outside (parties are allowed to have stalls outside polling booths, so long as it isn't close to the actual voting room (6m I think is the minimum distance away?). They just go in and either write down random numbers next to the candidates instead of thinking of how they will award their preferences (donkey vote). I think we normally get a turnout …

What are the proposed electoral reforms? Getting rid of FPTP or going to proportional representation? The latter would be fairer for smaller parties imho

Nice! They own 6 beaten up old rusty Holden Commodores /jks

Quote from Aannddyy: “It didn't effect me nor anyone I know. Australia was pretty well off during the financial crisis, and our state's unemployment rate even dropped.” Rudd + Swan did a good job imho, honestly if you came to Brisbane today you'd think the GFC never happened. Everyone is busy and life is normal, except a few people now don't have work and we don't have a AAA+ credit rating anymore.. oops As for Batgirl.... :nono:.... shammeeeee!!!! :p your parents probably couldn't afford giving…

Yeah that happens here as well, except we don't use FPTP, we use preferential voting where the winner is declared by a final 2PP vote count between the two most popular candidates. The irregular voting here happens too, parties like The Greens get a good vote percentage yet they never win a seat :o

How come the LD's have such a high vote count yet won so very few seats?

We've all heard about people losing jobs and houses, but on a personal scale, how much did it effect you? For me, not that much. I know the property values in our area dropped $200K, from around $900K average to $700K average. it didn't hurt mum or dad much. Business at Dad's dropped a bit and Mum's shares weren't effected at all because she sold them 2 years before it hit In our country the only bad things were that employment rose because many businesses had to slash costs and off-shore jobs t…

When I went to Europe in 2008 (France), I was surprised how accessible everything seemed to be. Like from Paris, there are ample trains going to different places- eg. Toulouse, Brussels, Barcelona etc. and that going to a different country is like a day trip/weekend thing. :p would be so weird I guess to have everything so compact and accessible o.o as an example, you can get around France on a TGV and be on the other side of the country in 3 hours. This is close to the distance from Brisbane to…

I know this will come out as really rude/horrible, but a part of me thinks that in exams, you should have the set time limit with NO EXCEPTIONS. If you can't do it in time, tough luck. I know people who claimed to have illnesses they never had, and got extra time and they ended up beating me in subjects (causing my OP to be lower than it could be! :mad:). But I know people who really do have dyslexia, it's pretty bad. He frequently spells words wrong and to him they actually look correct o.o

Quote from juststayblunted: “well according to the U.N report from last year australia is # 2 country to live Norway Best Place To Live: UN Report australia living standards have gone up under rudd now i dont claim to be a full expert on australian politics but rudd has my support” Do you even know who Rudd is? These living standards have always gone up, and they did under Howard, too. Anyway, we've always been high on the great places to live lists He spent lots of $$$, failed all his "big whiz…

Quote from rmg126: “So is this thread. :nono:” :mad: