23 Jul 2023 |
pieplup | i thought australia was based on UK govenrment | 13:29:50 |
pieplup | parliament minstries etc | 13:29:54 |
pieplup | notr a two party system | 13:29:58 |
.straykid#0 | we have our own government. | 13:30:02 |
.straykid#0 | labor and liberals tend to hold majority seats. | 13:30:15 |
.straykid#0 | people want 'the greens' in tho | 13:30:26 |
.straykid#0 | but all 3 are honesty becomming bad as eachother. | 13:30:36 |
.straykid#0 | labor, however does at least want things like pay rises, decent working conditions and all that stuff | 13:30:56 |
.straykid#0 | where as greens tend to go for climate change, indigenous rights and things like that | 13:31:14 |
.straykid#0 | as far as i know | 13:31:16 |
pieplup | i'ma be honest | 13:31:20 |
pieplup | i dont' know anything about australia n politics | 13:31:25 |
pieplup | or what the parties st5and fro | 13:31:28 |
pieplup | might as well be speaking latin | 13:31:36 |
.straykid#0 | i barely know myself. i tend to copy what my mum puts for voting | 13:31:39 |
pieplup | i dont' vote | 13:31:48 |
.straykid#0 | i have to. it's legal requirement | 13:31:56 |
pieplup | oh that's weir | 13:32:02 |
.straykid#0 | you can be fined for not voting. it's not much of a fine, but you still get fined | 13:32:23 |
pieplup | ok | 13:35:49 |
.straykid#0 | you go to your local school within your district to vote or ask to be able to vote via post. they often have sausage sizzles on voting days | 13:36:35 |
pieplup | it's similiar here | 13:36:46 |
pieplup | i think other places here are included too' | 13:36:56 |
pieplup | in 2020 election | 13:37:09 |
pieplup | there was massive controverys | 13:37:11 |
pieplup | of republicans accusing democrats of vote fraud | 13:37:16 |
pieplup | when the republicans were the actual ones doing vote fraud | 13:37:22 |
.straykid#0 | i like census time in australia | 13:41:32 |
.straykid#0 | it always feels like the government are angry parents yelling at thier children. "you need to stop putting jedi as your religion" or even "the flying spaghetti monster religion is not a religion" "you need to take this seriously" | 13:42:07 |
pieplup | ya | 14:00:07 |