How to vote

Got this from a friend who works inthe right place :P:

Love the explanation without being pressured to select anyone party.

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Election Guide

Just released an important series on how to vote, where your preferences go and how Parliament works. Major parties love keeping the public in the dark about how politics work so they can get away with anything. Arm yourself with the knowledge to make your vote count at an election.
 
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Voting: Where do Preferences go?

Political parties do not control preferences! Remember when you go to vote, you control your preferences, not the political parties. How to vote cards are only suggestions and you can ignore them and put your numbers in whatever order you like.

Every election, Labor will claim One Nation is preferencing Coalition and the Coalition will claim One Nation is preferencing Labor. Don’t fall for the scare tactics, remember that you own your preferences.
 
Don't waste your vote

Did you know that if every person who donkey voted last election voted for XYZ party they would be guaranteed the balance of power? Your vote is incredibly important, don't waste it.

How does Parliament work?

The major parties thrive on Australians not knowing how politics work. I get a lot of questions about what Parliament is actually made up of, this is a quick explainer.

"Hung Parliament" is only scary to the power hungry major party.

A hung Parliament is thrown around as a scary term but it's actually how our Parliament always used to work before the major parties. The major parties are scared of not having a majority because it means they don't get to do whatever they want unquestioned for the next three years. A better, more democratic way is possible.

Voting: How to mark your ballot paper

When you go to vote on election day or beforehand, you have to follow the instructions and fill out your vote correctly so it is counted. If you don’t, your vote for your particular party might not count.

The major parties are beholden to corporate interests, hidden agendas and other donors. Their tight control of preselection and makes sure that dissenting voices are cut out from the herd and left to wither.

This party-line mentality means many politicians lack the backbone to make decisions in your interest. This is how the policies of foreign, unelected organisations that aren’t in Australia’s best interests creep into our Parliament and influence our country.

 

 

 

 

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"Did you know that if every person who donkey voted last election voted for XYZ party they would be guaranteed the balance of power? Your vote is incredibly important, don't waste it."

Good advice in your post Beemee and I agree.

I voted yesterday...my application for a postal vote was accepted  a couple of weeks ago...received the ballot papers yesterday and I wasted no time.

Me too Sophie, I turned it around pronto.

If I had a wish that could be granted it would be "stop the nit picking childish behavior between Coalmo and Unease and actually run the damn Country" Also "stop controlling the people to do what you want and let us be free again as we were, and get back to running the damn country".

Hope you voted for Scotty, Beems.

relevant opinion piece by Alan Kohler: Deficits and the failure of representative democracy

“The new knowledge revolution of the past three decades is now seeping into political structures that were set up when letters and newspapers took days to arrive and people knew little about what was going on in the capital.”

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2022/05/09/deficits-democracy-failure-alan-kohler/

How to vote instructions from the Australian Electoral Commission 2022.

https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/

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