Election 2016

Above Us Only Sky.....

  • Homepage
  • Astronomy & Science
  • Current Affairs
  • Life in General
  • Sceptical Comment
  • Local Comment
  • About

Jun 20: Election 2016

Australia
Time to vote.

I'll be voting early this week and I'll be voting Liberal this time. Unlike 2013, I feel fairly confident that PM Malcolm Turnbull will lead a more progressive and moderate Australian government if he wins the election.

There are still question marks over the Liberal Party, however. The crazy right wing conservative rump, the inconsistent stance over climate change and the unnecessary referendum to be held on Marriage Equality.

The Labor Party of course is true to form with its 'spendometer' rising beyond maximum.

So, it's a Liberal vote from me  - but not by their how to vote card:


Macarthur Electorate:

Memo to Malcolm Turnbull: I refuse to give my second preference to a nutcase religious party!  


Senate: 

The question marks over the Liberal Party preferences deepen when you look at the Senate how to vote card:

1. Liberal/National.
2. Fred Nile's Christian Democrats. No!
3. Shooters, Farmers & Fishers. No!
4. Family First. No!
5. Liberal Democrats. No!
6. Motoring Enthusiast Party. No!

Placing religious interest groups ahead of all others in the Senate leaves another question mark against the Liberal Party in my mind.

I don't particularly like the concept of small parties and single issue candidates getting seats in the Senate but as I am forced to vote for at least 12 candidates or six parties, this is the probable order of my preferences:

1. Liberal Party
2. National Party.
3. Secular Party.
4. Science Party.
5. Mature Party.
6. Seniors United Party.
7. Voluntary Euthanasia Party.
8. Renewable Energy Party.
9. Labor Party.

Posted by roger in Australia

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

No comments


The author does not allow comments to this entry

Above us only sky...

The glory of the 'heavens' above us are real, their starry splendour is visible to those who look up; but the glory of 'Heaven' is a sad delusion of human minds.
This is the personal blog site of an atheist astronomer.

Wise words

"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
Carl Sagan

Categories

  • XML ABOUT (4)
  • XML ASTRONOMY & SCIENCE
  • XML Astro Forum: MAS (31)
  • XML Astronomers (5)
  • XML Astronomy (56)
  • XML Camera & tripod (41)
  • XML Citizen Science (9)
  • XML Climate Change (13)
  • XML Cosmology (5)
  • XML Dharawal (2)
  • XML Extra-terrestrials (11)
  • XML Lightning (5)
  • XML LX-90 Notes (11)
  • XML Polar Aligning (6)
  • XML Science (2)
  • XML CAMPBELLTOWN
  • XML Bigot watch (12)
  • XML Campbelltown Comment (13)
  • XML CURRENT AFFAIRS
  • XML Australia (33)
  • XML Covid-19 (5)
  • XML Human rights (2)
  • XML International (8)
  • XML Same-Sex Marriage (22)
  • XML LIFE
  • XML Football (13)
  • XML Life at work (6)
  • XML Life in general (25)
  • XML Life in the Sixties (3)
  • XML Life under the knife (4)
  • XML Photography (7)
  • XML What cheeses me off (10)
  • XML SCEPTICAL
  • XML Baloney watch (7)
  • XML Clear thinking (28)
  • XML Decline of Religion (29)
  • XML Ethics (11)
  • XML God delusions (40)
  • XML Vatican watch (26)

All categories

Syndicate This Blog

  • XML RSS 0.91 feed
  • XML RSS 1.0 feed
  • XML RSS 2.0 feed
  • ATOM/XML ATOM 1.0 feed
  • XML RSS 2.0 Comments

Blog Administration

Open login screen
 

Layout by Andreas Viklund | Serendipity template by Carl