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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 21, 2010 17:13:23 GMT -5
How many people vote in Oxtralia? You two make it sound as if the winnur changes from hour to hour.
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Post by Avril on Aug 22, 2010 6:31:31 GMT -5
All Australian citizens over 18 are required to vote by law. This excludes non-national residents and Kiwis.
It certainly seemed neck and neck for the whole election night vote count.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 22, 2010 10:47:53 GMT -5
Whut is a non--national resident exactly? And why are Kiwis included? They dont haf their own dear leader?
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Post by dragrat on Aug 22, 2010 16:58:51 GMT -5
Well Kiwis vote in they own nation, namely New Zealand. That country had a female leader, before we did. No Avril, I didn't hear about WA. Only that we had to wait for WA has they are two hours behind.. 73% of the national vote has been counted. We are still waiting on postal votes from around the world. It is down to the wire now. Both major parties are 72 for labor & 70 liberal. We have three independences who have yet to deiced which major party to be associated with.. So currently we are in 'care taker' government. No one party is in government. All in limbo, just our the Australian people feel about our government.
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Post by Avril on Aug 22, 2010 18:33:45 GMT -5
Whut is a non--national resident exactly? People from foreign parts who have working visas or who are residents without being naturalised. Wombat, for example, is actually stateless. When he arrived here as a Brittles Sprout at the age of ten he was deemed a Commonwealth subject and Australian by immigration and he was entitled to vote as soon as he turned 18. Then the law changed. One day he received notification that he was no longer entitled to vote but could rectify that if he took an oath of Citizenship of Oz and Loyalty to HM Queen Elizabeth II and our precious shores. He hasn't got around to it yet. Muee was also not entitled to vote, as a Brit immigrant. Interestingly, when she died we found in her papers a certificate of naturalisation in her name, and yet she was still somehow not entitled to vote. Some weird anomaly there we never worked out. She was and Wombat is, however, fully entitled to pay taxes!
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 22, 2010 18:34:39 GMT -5
Oztralia is all flucked up.
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Post by Avril on Aug 22, 2010 18:37:42 GMT -5
That probably cannot be denied in more respects than I have time to think of.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Sept 1, 2010 19:15:53 GMT -5
I think New Zealand is som much prettier than Oztralia. All those mountains full of gollums!
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Post by dragrat on Sept 1, 2010 20:05:35 GMT -5
mmm. You need to visit this fine land before you can say that. The internet can only give you a portion of the true experience you could have if you were here.
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Post by Avril on Sept 2, 2010 8:03:03 GMT -5
I do love the mountains, lakes, ski fields, fjords, hot bubbling mud pools and Pacific islands of EnZed. But Kakadu's pretty fine. and so's Sydney So where are you now, Arch? Auckland?
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Post by PigsnieLite on Sept 2, 2010 9:32:42 GMT -5
Eeeeh? Whut the heck would I be doing in Auckland? Im eating a soosage burrito.
PS. That Kakadu place is pretty fine though. Is that where youre going for your honeymoon?
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Post by Avril on Sept 4, 2010 0:01:37 GMT -5
We may be going to Cambodia. Later. After my haemorrhaging bank account has healed somewhat. That's if Wombat can get a passport without being deported first.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Sept 4, 2010 3:50:04 GMT -5
CAMMBODIA? Angkor Wat? You never been there? Its so Lovely! Just ridiculously crowded for a place wid no roller coasters or yummy fried stuff on sticks!
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Post by Avril on Sept 4, 2010 8:53:35 GMT -5
It's one place neither of us has been. Alan went and raved about it. We have a photo of him next to a giant aerial tree root, lovingly clasping the ancient stone.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Sept 4, 2010 10:39:07 GMT -5
Pleast post pic of Alan clasping stone next to tree root! I cant even find photos of me in Angkor Wat as I cant find the album and no one can tell me where it is. I wuz pretty young, maybe 11 or thereabouts, and according to my da, all I cared about wuz eating Cambodian snackies! Oh & I picked up a tiny Angkor Wattish rock somewheres wid a carving that looks like a flower. ProbaBLY illegal! eEEEK!
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