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Thank you America!

The enduring image for me will be two women at my work embracing each other, tears in their eyes, saying to me “finally I can be proud to be American.”

It was a magic moment and I was glad to witness it in my lifetime.

Thank you.

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It feels like a new world.

And what’s that feeling I’m having… um… haven’t felt it for a while… oh I know…

hope.

Finding out about Zimbabwe

What do I know of Zimbabwe? Not much.

I know Mugabe is corrupt. That hundreds of white farmers have relocated to Perth, that the elderly white people who can’t relocate are in dire need. That the recent election is a mess. (could that be the understatement of the year?)

I don’t know much about Zimbabwe.
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But The Poshi does. And she urged me to follow this link. [Warning: some of the images are distressing]

And sent me this mp3 to listen to – a spoof from a south African radio station – It’s a must listen.

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Easter salutations

It is with some trepidation that I wish you all a Happy Easter.

The last time I politely wished a lovely old lady Happy Easter, she snappishly returned:

“Don’t say that to me! Don’t you know what happened on Good Friday? There’s nothing happy in that!”

I was too taken aback to say another word and today – two years later – think twice before wishing anyone happy Easter before Sunday.

Well, except for people I know… like you… 🙂
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I hope you have a great weekend whatever you get up to. It’s a great chance to catch up with family and friends and relax.

Barack Obama v Matt Santos

Obama and wife west wing

If you’re looking for something to pod over the weekend and you’re a West Wing fan – Gerry Ryan has done an interview with someone who wrote for the series on the similarities between Matt Santos and Barack Obama.

Eliattie is A Writer And Producer Of West Wing – He Discusses The Final Seasons Of The West Wing.

Spoilt

So we wandered down to our local primary school festooned with Liberal and Labor posters and royal blue balloons.

We picked up a how-to-vote card from the Liberal, Greens and Labor people smiling politely, because I’ve been there and it’s much nicer when people are nice to you.

The polling place was practically empty – it was about 1.30pm – and I got my name ticked off and found a booth.

The kids pulled up a chair and we settled down to some voting action.

The green paper was easy. 1,2,3 piece of cake, 4 was the independant, and 5,6,7 were done in reverse from who I disliked most.
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I was disappointed to see that the Liberal candidate had placed three weirdo candidates above Labor – and Labor had placed the independant with the multi-partner marriage platform above Liberal. Surely they cannot be serious.

What irritates me most about How-to-Vote cards is that there is no indication of where their preferences go for the Senate. I want to make sure that the parties I don’t like are right. Down. The. Bottom. This is why I always vote below the line.

Although this year I got a bit confused. You see I was voting from the bottom and then from the top and somehow managed to number 27 and 28 twice! This meant I had a spoilt paper and had to start again.

Still civic duty done I can now go and get the party pies and chooks and get organised for our guests. It’s around 30C today in Perth and the kids are making good use of the pool. Roll on 4pm! I can’t wait to start watching the election coverage!

I love election day!

I know this is my third post of the day but I just can’t help but express my joy… don’t you just LOVE election day?!

It’s not just the fact at last the six week campaign is over, it’s the whole process. The going down to the local primary school, walking past all those loyal party faithful handing out how to vote cards, ticking off your name and getting your green and white papers, walking into a little booth, picking up that little pencil on a string, numbering from 1-7 (I think we have seven candidates including an independent planning to vote for multi-partner marriage – though why she thinks she needs more than one husband I don’t know), enjoying the chance to number the senate ticket 1-45 (or however many – you vote below the line don’t you… don’t you?), posting the papers, handing back the how-to-vote cards, and then tuning in at 4pm to the start of the election coverage with friends.

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Bring. It. On.

The Australian Ballot

Courtesy ABCIn some countries the convention of a secret ballot is called an Australian ballot. I only just discovered this fact which led me to do a little research as, you know, we’re coming up to a federal election (and I need to post every day for a month for NaBloPoMo)

This is because Australia was the first to introduce the secret ballot in 1856 [1].

And given we were one of the first countries in the world to give women the vote (New Zealand was the first [1]) I reckon we can be pretty proud of our contribution to world democracy.

Of course our record for the Indigenous vote isn’t so hot.

We started off okay giving all men over the age of 21 (including Aboriginal Australians) the right to vote in 1850, although it wasn’t compulsory and in fact Indigenous voters weren’t encouraged to vote. When Queensland gained self -government in 1859 and Western Australia in 1890, they denied Indigenous people the vote. [2]

Then in 1901 when we became a federation, only Indigenous people on the state rolls were allowed to vote and of course this was a way to phase it out because no new people were ever added to the roll.

They finally got the vote in 1962 (although Indigenous people who had served in the armed forces got the vote in 1949) but it wasn’t a compulsory vote until 1984.
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Speaking of compulsory voting – we are unique in Australia in being the only English-speaking country in the world who has it! Compulsory voting was first introduced in Queensland in 1915 and the other states followed and in 1924 was introduced for all Federal and State elections [3].

Personally I think compulsory voting is a good thing. The amount of money spent on getting people just to the polling booths in countries like the US is ridiculous. Only one in five people bothered to vote in the recent local government elections here. That is pathetic. Now perhaps it was because it wasn’t well advertised. Certainly I didn’t see a lot of “vote here” signs to remind people, or perhaps people think local government is irrelevant or simply corrupt. Whatever the reason I think it points to a level of apathy in this country and compulsory voting goes some way to forcing people to engage in democracy.

So there you go. I find myself surprised at how interesting I found those facts… and how strongly I feel about compulsory voting. 🙂

[1] Australian Politics

[2] Timeline of Indigenous Voting Rights – AEC

[3] History of Electoral Reform – AEC