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[Blargityblarg]

So the ACT (Australian Capital Territory, think of it as being similar to the District of Columbia) has decided fuck the feds, we got our own level of government!

FTFY

[NobodyPro]

So the ACT (Australian Capital Territory, think of it as being similar to the District of Columbia) has decided fuck the feds, we got our own level of government!

FTFY

Just to clarify for other Australians, Washington State is on the other side of the country and its capital city is Seattle.

[Blargityblarg]

^Whereas Washington the city, the captial of the United States, is located in the District of Columbia, on the east coast.

[Descan]

And I will echo the sentiments of every foreigner when they first learn of this:

Fucking America.

[Blargityblarg]

And I will echo the sentiments of every foreigner when they first learn of this:

Fucking America.

Canadians can't talk, y'all have a city named after a state too.

Granted, it's one of our states, but shut up >.<

[Scoops Novel]

Ugh, just let the bill pass. The issue of gay marrage is not going to go away until it is legalised.

As for the Liberal's, what won them the election, and is a vote of no confidence in the offing? Do you want to hit me, tell me to look at some articles, and then give me some articles? *looking at articles

What?

Respectively, what won the Liberals the election, is a vote of no confidence in the offing, and please don't kill me for asking instead of googling.

[Blargityblarg]

Ugh, just let the bill pass. The issue of gay marrage is not going to go away until it is legalised.

As for the Liberal's, what won them the election, and is a vote of no confidence in the offing? Do you want to hit me, tell me to look at some articles, and then give me some articles? *looking at articles

What?

Respectively, what won the Liberals the election, is a vote of no confidence in the offing, and please don't kill me for asking instead of googling.

Apparently we Aussies have a habit of voting people out rather than voting people in. We had some shenanigans with party leadership under Labor, where Rudd won the '07 election, suddenly lost a lot of his pre-election charm (and more importantly, polling figures) and was unceremoniously booted out and replaced with his then-Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Julia went on to honestly not fare much better, especially due to a perceived air of illegitimacy arising from (and very much stirred up by the Opposition) aforementioned shenanigans. Labor didn't win the '10 election by a hair, but were able to form a temporary coalition with some Green and Independent MPs to gain a minimal majority in the lower house and thus the official title of Government. Julia continued to be a reasonable politician, particularly for one facing such a huge quantity of sex-based slander (seriously). She got some good hits in, calling Tony Abbott (then leader of coalition, now Prime Minister) out on his sexism (linky), not that it stopped him or even slowed him down. Then, about three to six months ago, I forget exactly when, Julia's polling was low and the election was nearing, and a vote was called amongst the Labor party big shots to replace Julia with Kevin again, which succeeded. Kevin went on to change the rules of the Labor party to stop this kind of bait-and-switch thingo happening again (at least not without a bigger majority, and the knowledge of the rest of the party, not just the inner circle), and to lose the election by somewhat less than was expected. He then stepped down as leader of the Labor Party just about as soon as the election was called.

Hopefully that was some sort of insight.

fakeedit: just realised I didn't really answer your questions head-on: Again, I think it was more a case of Labor being voted out than Liberals voted in, and whilst I'm not entirely sure what you mean by vote of no confidence, it's possible that if Abbott is sufficiently ridiculous the Governor-General (who represents the Queen's authority) will call a double dissolution and we'll have to re-elect pretty much every Federal-level politician. I think, but am not sure, that Abbott may, if he decides Australia isn't bending over in a satisfactory manner, be able to force the GG to enact a double dissolution himself, but such an act would probably not be in his best interests.


Also:

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YOU ASK QUESTION? YOU DIE NOW!

[Scoops Novel]

Assuming Abbot hasn't elected a science minister by now, do you think public pressure (warranted by grievances not solely based on this failure, unfortunately) is likely to build up enough that his party is booted out early ?

[Blargityblarg]

Abbott is not going to appoint (not elect) a science minister. The Science ministry, in addition to the Climate Change and several others, have been assimilated into other portfolios. Whilst this has been met with considerable outrage from the left (which is hardly a surprise), I don't think we're going to have sufficient momentum to outright overthrow Abbott. My money's on three years of absolutely ridiculous bullshit, followed by a landslide election in the other direction.

[Jimmy]

It's simple. The current government doesn't support climate change policies. To back their position, they are firing all the current scientists that oppose their position and scrapping any research into the field. If there's no science to support climate change, there's no problem, right?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

"To the leader of the opposition let me say this: You want to fight cunt?"

"Hi, my name's Kevin, i'm from Queensland, and i'm here to help"

"... and now i've got to zip"

[Max White]

Ladies and gentlemen, we slip slowly towards totalitarianism.
Although important to note they haven't banned anything yet, publicly releasing that they might is worrying.

[Scoops Novel]

Ladies and gentlemen, we slip slowly towards totalitarianism.
Although important to note they haven't banned anything yet, publicly releasing that they might is worrying.

I get the impression this government was elected for the backlash, or at least that the role they'll end up filling.

[Max White]

This government was elected because people didn't like the last one. I'm still not sure why they didn't like the last one, usually it comes down to either thinking the economy is in bad shape, or the changing leadership. I'm past expecting people to know what is going on...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You could have stopped this Australia. You could have voted Ron Paul Bullet Train for Australia. Only darkness remains...