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Voter show contempt for both major parties

by | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog

One of the questions that arose from time to time at various forums during the campaign concerned the whys and wherefores of the rolling of first term Prime Ministers. Some have rather complex reasons but my own view is more pedestrian and prosaic. Very simply...
Wham, Splat, Kapow and Blam. Bolt doesn’t miss.

Wham, Splat, Kapow and Blam. Bolt doesn’t miss.

by | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog

Malcolm, you assassinated a Liberal Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who’d won an election by a huge margin. You promised to do even better than him. Malcolm, after this election you are now finished You then treated the Liberal base like dirt, smashing it with a huge...

Votes made invalid or informal BECAUSE of the AEC?

by | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog

Listening to the radio this morning one scrutineer said that something like 30% of votes declared informal at her booth  were because the AEC official issuing the ballot paper to the voter had not initialled it in the top right hand corner. Does this error by the AEC...