Australian Elections in August

[Ryan]

That's a great story. I'd vote for Joe.

Over here in Victoria, we have a thug in the media at the moment who bashed a 96 year old WW2 vet for his pokie winnings ($20) and he only got a 12 month sentence with a non parole period of 4 months. He'll be out in a couple of weeks after serving just over 3 months.

[colin jones]

Wow!!!!! That sheriff has got my vote.
Colin!

[lynx42]

Two Different Versions .... Two Different Morals


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OLD VERSION

The ant

works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building

his house and laying up supplies for the winter.



The grasshopper

thinks the
ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away..



Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.




The grasshopper
has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.


MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!





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MODERN VERSION

The ant

works hard in the
withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant
is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.



Come winter, the shivering grasshopper

calls a press conference
and demands to know why the ant
should be allowed to be warm and well fed while

he is cold and starving.


Channels 7, 9 and 10,the ABC and SBS

show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his
comfortable home with a table filled with food.



Australia is stunned by the

sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of
such wealth, this poor grasshopper
is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on
Oprah with the grasshopper
and everybody cries when they sing,

'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Acorn stages a demonstration in
front of the ant's house where
the news stations film the group singing,

'We shall overcome.'

Cardinal George Pell then has the
group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


Prime Minister Gillard
condemns the ant and blames
John Howard, Robert Menzies, Capt
James Cook, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Bob Brown exclaims in an interview on Today Tonight

that the ant has gotten rich off the back
of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on
the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, Labor in conjunction with the
Greens draft the Economic Equity
& Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.



The ant is fined for failing to hire a
proportionate number of green bugs
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,

his home is confiscated by the Government
and given to the grasshopper.



The story ends as we see the grasshopper

and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the

ant’s food while the government house
he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,

crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.


The ant
has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is
found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned,
is taken over by a gang of spiders
who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once
peaceful, neighbourhood.



MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2010.

[Lynn Eades]

I think like you. How come we seem like a minority. What happened to freedom, freedom of choice, and being responsible for our actions? Where did all the commies come from? Do you have anyone you can vote for?
I was in Perth as Rudd a dud dud re appeared to become part of the performance. Good luck!

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Don't forget to get out and vote..!!
THe Australian Sex Party could hold the balance of power..makes more sense that what you have running and elected and ruling now..

http://www.sexparty.org.au/

Lets keep the world updated on results through MLU..

[Keith Webb]

Well the result is... there isn't really one... looks like we have a hung parliament with neither of the main parties with enough seats to form a government which leaves the balance of power with the independents.

This hasn't happened since the 1940 election.

The most telling feature was the huge rebuff to Julia (tryhard, dullard) Gillard and her back stabbing ways, particularly in the former Prime Minister's state of Queensland.

[aj.lec]

Should be some lively debates in parliament and Bugger all action for the next few years
And another early election when either side thinks they might have got an edge
As long as the Greens havent picked up too many seats ,BIG trouble if they get some of their mandates through