prelude AND fugue

By: virtual (Registered ) on 20-10-2007 06:57

and willie my boy, .. who i vote for on the ticket is NONE of your damn business ..WHO you are going to give your preferences to IS. 
- alank. congrats on long term residency in kenmore, wow has the place grown exponentially or what ..sim, with pullenvale and brookfield and further out pine mountain ...(must be where all the "toorak" tractors AND V8 mercs are:) in fact whole of west'n burbs are bulging at the seams with little or no infrastructure preplanned. Same all over in fact, we live part of the year in europe and have seen these changes come about in exactly the same fashion, only 30 years ago! If our public servants (legislators/ spin dr's)would only learn from the mistakes of other nations, it's so childish ... the wrong people in the wrong place.

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no9 no9 no9 no9 no9 no9 no9

By: virtual (Registered ) on 22-10-2007 06:37

Hows that for arrogance …”IF we decide to give our preferences to” etc, emphasis on the "if" 
Correct me if I’m wrong but the main reason the rodent got in there in the first place (1996) was preferences. Labor achieved 52% of the primary vote. They had the majority ! Between the democrats, the greens (was family first around then? and that idiot from the switch p.pantsdown + the riff raff ….These idiots all managed to get the coalition over the line! The rest is part of a very sorry corrupt history for ten years or 
SO: 
Minor parties must not be allowed to make those decisions for us by refusing to tell us where preferences will go. We need to know this from every candidate well before our compulsory election day out. If this is not evident how can they say we have a democracy? Albeit a capitalist democracy. 
cheers 
viva la revolution unterunder

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My electorate

By: PaulDy (Registered ) on 25-10-2007 05:17

What's the local situation in my seat? Well drover's dog stuff. Haven't seen the local member in the 7 years we've lived here. 
 
He does nothing and doesn't need to as it's Labor all the way here. 
 
This is what really concerns me. It's not the mainstream issues and people who are getting attention at all. It's not the National issues getting attention. 
 
It's pure pork barrelling from both sides with absolutely no attention paid to "safe" seats as we are useless to the major Parties. They take us for granted and ignore us. 
 
In Oxley we have possibly the most dangerous Highway in this country, Ipswich Highway. Deaths mount, accidents are daily, hourly, delays are constant and guess what happens? Nothing 
 
The State govt claim it's Feds problem and the Feds have only offered a cheap, useless option while they pour nearly a billion dollars into Toowoomba roads whcih are in need but nothing like here. Toowoomba gets the promises because it's Liberal and in danger. 
 
On the Liberal side Howard does nothing for those safe Lib electorates where their hospitals are in dire need. 
 
Democracy be damned. What we have is nothing like democracy. It's a perversion of a chook raffle and a prawn and porn night at the pub. Largest offer wins the seat. 
 
Don't know about the rest of you but I want an election decided on what the Nation needs. Not what a couple of thousand marginal residents in Tassie or Grafton want. They should get the same deal as all of us. 
 
Our sitting MP, Bernie Ripoll has been in the seat for years as a Labor rep. He actually spent his pamphlet allowance last election on telling us how much he has done to get the Highway fixed. I replied to him telling him all he was advertising was how useless he is and was.  
 
Not surpisingly he hasn't mentioned the Highway since except when the cameras are around.

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