Chinatown A++.
Am I allowed to vent about Australian politics here? We have an election coming up soon.
Preach on, Comrade Dwarf!
Preach on, Comrade Dwarf!
I wish we had a choice, our so called "Labor" party has sold out.
The conservatives call themselves the "Liberal" party and is lead by a former trainee Jesuit priest, we call the mad monk, he likes to pose in speedo's.
The only effective and respectable politician has retired from leadership of the Greens and now the party is run by people the right and left can use as examples of crazy greenies.
The Australian Democrats imploded years ago after they knifed thier best chance in the back.
The National party (farmers party) are lap dogs of the Liberal party pretending to be cattle dogs.
What happened to Australia First (I think - the very anti-immigrant party with the female leader) ?
Also, do evangelical Christian groups have any influence over any of the main parties?
Sounds like Australia could use some workers revolution.
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Sounds like Australia could use some workers revolution.
For Comrade Dwarf, Germaine Greer on Julia Gillard
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How is everyone doing these days?
Doodlebug you going to head to the land down under and start an uprising for the workers party?
Man all this political talk the only Julia I really know or like is this one. Julia
What happened to Australia First (I think - the very anti-immigrant party with the female leader) ?
Also, do evangelical Christian groups have any influence over any of the main parties?
One Nation was a joke - it only survived because the Conservatives in power at the time gave them oxygen enough to act as a distraction. That oxygen disappeared when they won a seat.
They were Primarily anti Asian, anti Middle Eastern, and anti African immigration. A lot of support came from 1st and 2nd generation European immigrants, who brought their racism with them.
The One Nation party "peaked at the 1998 election on 9 percent of the nationwide vote, electing one Senator in Queensland. The party has never approached these heights again, and while it nominally still exists it attracts a negligible percentage of the vote." (wiki)
The leader of the party was called Pauline Hanson - she was parodied mercilessly. A Drag Queen called Pauline Pantsdown had 2 top 10 hits with "I am a back door man" and "I dont like it". Backdoor man had a federal injunction raised against it as it was in the middle of an election and seen as prejudicial.
As for religion..... Most Australians are ambivalent, they will say I kind of believe in god but that's about as far as they go. We dont have much time for "God botherers" and we have less time for "god botherers" that bother us about god. The main churches have some power, but that is because it was established in the past.
Hillsong (evangelical) got popular for about 5 mins and has faded, there were some scandals - proving that any and every church run by human-beings is corrupt.
aw man yeahh my australian friends are all pretty disgusted
wasn't there some sort of scandal with the prime minister last fall or something
No real scandal... Australia has done very well out of the GFC and the government has done a lot of what it has set out to do.
The problems people have with Julia are the ingrained misogynistic tendencies in the conservative parties, and the press, they hammer her about a lot of inane crap.
She did make some promises she went back on and looked a right burke and that is where she lost my support.
For Comrade Dwarf, Germaine Greer on Julia Gillard
Yeh that was good - occasionally GG gets back to her old school self
The best bumper-sticker I have seen so far is... "Voting for Tony because you hate Julia is like eating s@%! because you hate spinach!"
Better than in Australia, apparently.
Hum.
It's sunny there, and the duck-billed platypuses(?) can roam free, election or no election.
Hum.
It's sunny there, and the duck-billed platypuses(?) can roam free, election or no election.
Yes it is platypuses...
Its winter now, and cold and wet...
It's *summer* here, and cold and wet, and the water vole population is declining.
You still win.
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Australia is hazardous. Your party might be squished by a zloty.
I may actually get to run the next installment of my Lords of Chaos game. Speaking of which, I'm running out of crazy scenarios for them to run into. Start shouting out ideas and I may pick one to add to the game.
Well, so far, they have killed Dora the Explorer, killed over 1000 bards at Bardopolooza, had a character that dressed up like a girl scout and delivered bombs and are trying to become sky pirates. In the next session , I'm having a cameo by Buffy the Vampire slayer killing some Vampires and Werewolves that are "inspired by Twilight".
JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.
JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.
*smashes bottles*
JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Now Gunter be nice...
Now Gunter be nice...JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Wernk. *smash*
Wernk. *smash*Now Gunter be nice...JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Gunter go eat the Ice Kings socks.
Gunter go eat the Ice Kings socks.Wernk. *smash*Now Gunter be nice...JMD- Adventure time, the Ice King.*smashes bottles*
Wernk! *slap*
Give me your soul!
*slap* Wernk. >=(
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No real scandal... Australia has done very well out of the GFC and the government has done a lot of what it has set out to do.
The problems people have with Julia are the ingrained misogynistic tendencies in the conservative parties, and the press, they hammer her about a lot of inane crap.
She did make some promises she went back on and looked a right burke and that is where she lost my support.
Ahh I see. I was thinking of this which isn't really a scandal I guess.
Ahh I see. I was thinking of this which isn't really a scandal I guess.No real scandal... Australia has done very well out of the GFC and the government has done a lot of what it has set out to do.
The problems people have with Julia are the ingrained misogynistic tendencies in the conservative parties, and the press, they hammer her about a lot of inane crap.
She did make some promises she went back on and looked a right burke and that is where she lost my support.
She was so good on the floor of the House when she was deputy PM, she would demolish the opposition, none of them could stand against her in a debate. Most Australians at the time were looking forward to her being the next PM.
Then the party dipped in popularity and her faction got enough numbers to tap the PM on the shoulder and tell him he he was sacked and he had to go to the backbenches. What most people don't realise is - Australia votes for the party they want to govern them not like the US who vote for a President. The party can change its organisation any time it wants, being able to sack a PM at any time. This upset a lot of Australians as the exPM is/was very very popular, it was seen as disloyalty, greedy and underhanded. If she had challenged for the leadership at the right time, it would have been accepted but it tainted her as sneaky.
When she became PM she toned down her ways to look softer, it came across as false, her spin doctors were stupid, she gave up her real strength, her ability to smash the oposion, she was the Labor party's best gun. The opposition went to town and tore her and the party to shreds. The ex PM surprise surprise was pissed off as all f&$& and openly destabilised the party from within leaking documents, and just being as difficult as possible.
Even with all that going on Julia managed to climb out of the hole she had dug herself and win the last election, she made a lot of promises in that election, that she went back on, the only time she showed her mettle was the mysogony speach. Both Julia and the labor party have lost my confidence.
We use the preferential voting system in Austalia, (most simple explination) if the person you vote for comes last then the next preference on your ballot gets the vote and so on until you have a winner.
I am going to vote Green as my first preference, Australian Democrats (nothing like the US Democrats) as my second preference, and maybe the Socialist Alliance after that.
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Latest from my Lords of Chaos game. Spoilered for space reasons.
The caravan continues down the road towards Numaria where they will hopefully find the Artificer. Before they make it out of Ustalav they run into a trap. A downed tree blocks the path forward and they are told from mysterious voices to surrender in the name of the law. On high alert but not falling for the obvious trap, they send off a volley of cannon fire towards the sounds of the voices. Pumba then goes to investigate and ends up running into his Arch-nemesis Albert Gore. After taking a shot to the shoulder, Pumba plugs good old Al three times. Al manages to have enough health left to escape and vow revenge. Pumba continues to search the woods for bad guys. Meanwhile, the party waits for something to happen. Phajge gets deafened by a spellcaster and combat begins. The party is being attacked by Hellknights who are out for vengeance after what happened in Cheliax. Pumba ends up finding their leader, unknowningly and puts three bullets into him, making him leave as well. Good lord are gunslingers OP. Anyways, the party manages to clean up these rabble with some fancy moves from the Samarai, the Fighter, the Magus and the Gunslinger. The Witch did cast some spells but spent most of the time trying to figure out how he was going to remove his deafness. The game ends here and will pick up in a few weeks when they finally manage to make it to their destination of getting an airship.
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I was camping all this week and frequently had to go for a piss in the dark, as you do, running the risk every time of hosing all over my boots. "What is to be done?", I asked myself, raising a hand to my brow in frustration - then, my fingers rested on the head-torch I was wearing. Struck by a sudden burst of inspiration, I moved the head-torch so the lamp was underneath my chin and thus became:
I haven't decided what my mission should be, over and above bringing accurate nocturnal wazzing to the People, but maybe that's all the world needs right now.
Latest from my Lords of Chaos game. Spoilered for space reasons.
** spoiler omitted **...
Very awesome.
Small quibble, but as an ardent Xanderphile, I object to him being statted as a "cowardly rogue."
Otherwise, awesome indeed.
Well, Xander was responsible for a lot of the messes that the scooby gang got into which makes him roguish and in the first couple of seasons he was kind of a coward.
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I was camping all this week and frequently had to go for a piss in the dark, as you do, running the risk every time of hosing all over my boots. "What is to be done?", I asked myself, raising a hand to my brow in frustration - then, my fingers rested on the head-torch I was wearing. Struck by a sudden burst of inspiration, I moved the head-torch so the lamp was underneath my chin and thus became:
I haven't decided what my mission should be, over and above bringing accurate nocturnal wazzing to the People, but maybe that's all the world needs right now.
I hereby nominate you as the most qualified candidate for the Green Lantern of Sector 2814.
Australian politics is messy too?
Ok, honestly I am not surprised. In the future politics will be probably idiomatic term for dirt. What politician will mean I won't post due to forum rules.
And....I will soon be employed by the state of CT to help it's citizens in need!
No more private ambulance business for this hamster.
(At least, not full-time).
Huzzah!
Wig wam bam, indeed.