Who will you vote for next year (NSW State Election) (2 Viewers)

[ogmzergrush]

I'm sort of hoping on some form of mass-assassination that takes out pretty much everyone in politics, I'm all for a fresh start too.

(Maybe we can do it the non-violent way and just increase retirement payouts for politicians and help them make the right decision).

On a serious note though, I'm quite undecided, I'm yet to seeing anything compelling from anyone.

 

[katietheskatie]

Re: Who will you vote for next year

I'm not muslim, and under normal circumstances I wouldn't want to murder people who disagree with my political view. But after everything the ALP have done anyone who votes for them is obviously too stupid to be allowed to live.

ha, i could not agree more.

 

[leetom]

The ALP will win. The whole public servie will vote for them, even the four thousand who lose their jobs. All the ALP has to do is work up some fear over WorkChoices, paint the state government as the last line of defence against the evil feds and the election will be theirs. No need for policies.

That will most probably be the case, unless the libs can play the race card well. This seems unlikely though because although racial issues usually translates into support for the federal libs, I wonder if that would be the case for Debnam. He's just so unappealing. Howard might do a photo shoot with him or something, but I reckon he'd be reluctant to lend too much support to such a religious NSW Liberal Party.

EDIT: I would normally vote ALP, but I am somewhat disenchanted with Iemma. Perhaps Democrat.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

Debnam really is unappealing... I can't imagine him leading a government, he honestly doesn't seem ready.

 

[transcendent]

Re: Who will you vote for next year

Anyone who votes for the ALP next year should be killed.

Just like anyone who has voted for the Liberals in the federal election should be killed

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Re: Who will you vote for next year

Is there even a single competent opposition anywhere in the country?

 

[Not-That-Bright]

Re: Who will you vote for next year

no.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

Re: Who will you vote for next year

Just like anyone who has voted for the Liberals in the federal election should be killed

Given the Labor leader at the time I think it was perfectly reasonable to vote Liberal in the federal election. It doesn't always come down to the party as a whole... if you put up a moron for prime minister you won't get votes.

 

[what971]

Same argument applies if you choose to vote for Fed Nile's Christian Democracts or the Chinese(?) unity party, they both preference to the Libs.

Why would Unity support the Libs?

 

[Silver Persian]

Well, the federal labour has Julia Gillard who rox my sox.

And they're doing a good job of kicking up a lot of shit about the while AWB thing...and also aged care abuse. Neither of those issues are exactly election winners though

 

[shady_03]

Labour of course. No competition

 

[Collin]

Labor, guys.

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[withoutaface]

The policies adopted by the current ALP are right wing polices which once were the domain of the Liberal party. Essentially the Liberal party in the past 10 years has had no where to go because the political ground they once held was taken over by Bob Carr. To the extent that the ALP was more right wing than Brogden's wet libs.

So really if the Libs were elected we will either see

1. More of the same right wing policy
2. More extreme loony right wing policy/the rebirth of fundementalist christian factions within the liberal party.

I advise all people to vote against the sitting member in their seat so as to make their seat marginal. All seats that are marginal get the most financial support attention. This is a good thing. You are pretty silly to vote for the party that holds your seat when its a very safe seat. Make it marginal and make pollies sit up and spend some money on your area. Some of the safest seats in Australia (for the libs) where I live don't even have curb and gutter.

Labor get right wing policies but take the teeth out. For example with the tunnel they contract it out, but negate any advantage of doing so by making the results of the tunnel's failure effectively identical to what would happen if it was built with public money.

 

[absolution*]

Ill vote Labor because I live in a marginal seat, one party having control over the senate, house of reps at federal level and the largest state government is scary, Debnam is a twatty wankstick and most importantly I <3 italians. On policy alone I would vote Democrats, or failing that, Greens.

 

[Rafy]

It's become painfully obvious -- like watching a car crash -- that Iemma is simply not up to the job of running the nation's biggest state. (As subsequent revelations have demonstrated, neither was his predecessor, Bob Carr, but he was a better actor.)

He tries to disguise his policy backdowns, from the desalination plant to yesterday's announcement reversing road closures in East Sydney, as "listening to the public", but it doesn't work. He looks indecisive, poll-driven and just plain terrified -- not consultative.

To anyone in the know, it is Michael Costa -- a hard-right wing economic libertarian who would like to cut the public payroll by 20 percent -- and the NSW ALP General Secretary Mark Arbib who are running the state. To the general public, which doesn't really care about internal power plays, it looks like, well, no one is running NSW.

The best you can say about Iemma -- whose entire working life has been spent either as a politician or working for one, and who didn't leave home until he was 35 -- is that he's a nice bloke with a winning smile. But it looks increasingly likely that it is not winning enough.

SMH

 

[ihavenothing]

Why would Unity support the Libs?

Because their leader is a very conservative Catholic. I sorta think this is unfair for other members who don't share the same moral stance. This party hasnt really taken off the ground as many Asians are attracted to the Liberal Party, which I think is disgusting and contradictory, as it was the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam who kicked off the Australia-China relations and Keating to expand on it only to be stolen by Johnny after he won the election.

 

[Phanatical]

Andrew Quah, Independent for the Legislative Council. I'm running under a platform of dealing with education issues, and gender disadvantage in schools and the workplace.

 

[Iron]

Short of a donkey, i'd base it on the merits of the local candidate and whatever they plan for the specific electorate [if i didnt live in pinko-commie-capital land]

 

[frog12986]

Yay! Greens tied with Liberal..

And they of course would in reality easily get 28% of the vote statewide...Dreams live on..

 

[nmsahib]

Labor has too many wogs. No offence.... (ok i don't really if it causes offence)... but Australians can't afford to have a leader who has sympathies for that sort of.. ""greasy-Lebish community"".. Having a leader who has interests in, or who feels like they are indebted to, some foreign minority, is unacceptable.. Not because no one should stick up for them, but because this is Australia.
Iemmas response to the riots was unnacceptable. I couldn't work out why.. until i realised what his electorate was (Lakemba).
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what's that meant to mean?
"greasy lebish community"? you just labelled a whole community?
on what you probabl saw a few middle eastern people do?
i'm not lebanese or muslim for that matter but i stll am extremely offended
jus becoz ur in the majority you wish to opress lebanese ppl.
this will probably be reflected by the people you vote for
therefore your opinion shouldn't really be of any value anyway.
and iemma didn't respond badly to the riots, if u think so give us some examples dont make general statemnts.
hez just a migrant who got further in life than u robably ever will.