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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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The Pirate Party joined with some other minority parties (Secular Party, Science Party, Climate Justice Party and Vote Planet Party) to form the new FUSION party, which has a surprisingly rational, progressive platform.
My democracy sausage this morning was vegetarian, with fried onions and mustard.
My democracy sausage this morning was vegetarian, with fried onions and mustard.
Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Yum. Was it good, Imp?
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As well as postal votes, the Australian Electoral Commission opens a number of booths in each electorate for early or pre-polling, to allow electors who are unable to get to a voting booth on election day to vote in advance. Early voting usually opens two weeks before election day.
The AEC also offers mobile voting in residential aged care centres and remote areas of Australia; telephone voting is available for people with low vision and for those who are Covid-19 positive and in isolation.
EDIT - it was a good sausage! (and I was hungry, having skipped breakfast)
The AEC also offers mobile voting in residential aged care centres and remote areas of Australia; telephone voting is available for people with low vision and for those who are Covid-19 positive and in isolation.
EDIT - it was a good sausage! (and I was hungry, having skipped breakfast)
Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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As well as postal votes, the Australian Electoral Commission opens a number of booths in each electorate for early or pre-polling, to allow electors who are unable to get to a voting booth on election day to vote in advance. Early voting usually opens two weeks before election day.
The AEC also offers mobile voting in residential aged care centres and remote areas of Australia; telephone voting is available for people with low vision and for those who are Covid-19 positive and in isolation.
EDIT - it was a good sausage! (and I was hungry, having skipped breakfast)
The AEC also offers mobile voting in residential aged care centres and remote areas of Australia; telephone voting is available for people with low vision and for those who are Covid-19 positive and in isolation.
EDIT - it was a good sausage! (and I was hungry, having skipped breakfast)
Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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This election has been wild. The vote has fractured all over the place and it's turned into something of a battle royale of individual fistfights between Labor, Coalition, Greens, Teal Independents, non-Teal Independents, and assorted other candidates seat-by-seat across the country. It is shaping up as a re-aligning election although we've got no idea what it's re-aligning to. That said, the Government has been defeated and Anthony Albanese will be Australia's 31st prime minister. The question now is whether he'll lead a minority or majority government. Based on early results from the west a majority is looking very possible.
Edit: I'm surprised the sausage was good, every vegan sausage I've tried has been godawful. Maybe they're improving over time.
Edit: I'm surprised the sausage was good, every vegan sausage I've tried has been godawful. Maybe they're improving over time.
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Hunger, fried onions and mustard may have influenced me .
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Australian elections sound entertaining. I hope whomever wins does right by Australia!
Sorry.. but what is written on the back of those trunks? It's quite distracting. Not that I'm complaining. I doubt that would be allowed at our polling place.
Sorry.. but what is written on the back of those trunks? It's quite distracting. Not that I'm complaining. I doubt that would be allowed at our polling place.
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Yeah... it's the writing that's distracting...RoseMorninStar wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 6:13 pm Australian elections sound entertaining. I hope whomever wins does right by Australia!
Sorry.. but what is written on the back of those trunks? It's quite distracting. Not that I'm complaining. I doubt that would be allowed at our polling place.
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was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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Yes, because the rest is attractive.
Impish, was the sausage offered by a Fair Go Dibbler?
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OK. So I had to look it up. Turns out dressing in swimwear was a thing? even on a cold day. The trunks on the man (above) in question says 'budgie smuggler' erm.. which .. I wonder if that means something different in Australia...?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tates.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tates.html
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Budgie smuggler refers to the er...lump in the front of the crotch that's visible when men wear this type of swim trunks.
This swimmer has some strategically placed advertising:
This swimmer has some strategically placed advertising:
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When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
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Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
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Well, yes, I knew the traditional meaning of Budgie smuggler but I didn't know if it was.. I dunno.. something else like a tongue-in-cheek (heh) nickname for the pirate party or something. I didn't understand the why/purpose of people voting in swimwear. But it was fun!
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U.K. news has dropped off the radar a little post-Brexit and following Jeremy Corbyn's departure as Labour leader but Boris Johnson is now facing a no-confidence vote over holding parties during COVID-lockdown. Nothing yet on how many votes the challengers are likely to have, or who would replace him if the motion is carried.
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How much do elections in the UK affect other countries in the Commonwealth?
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Zero.
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From The Guardian's live updates:
The BBC's anchors point out that this is a narrower margin of victory than Theresa May got from Tory MPs in December 2018, and she announced her resignation six months later.Boris Johnson wins confidence vote by 211 votes to 148
Sir Graham Brady, chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee, says 359 votes were cast. There were no spoilt ballots.
Confidence in Boris Johnson: 211
No confidence in Johnson: 148
That means more than 40% of Tory MPs voted against Johnson.
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So this is a yes confidence outcome?
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Yeah, Johnson gets to remain Leader of the Conservative Party and therefore also Prime Minister.
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He has won, although with 41% of the party room voting against him in a challenge with no obvious challenger it's hard to see how he has much of a long-term future. As Eldy pointed out, past PMs who've had these sorts of numbers haven't lasted much longer.