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is nearly at an end
Oct. 14th, 2007 01:03 pmIt is a beautiful, delightful spring day. I'm wearing a light summer dress, I'm slathered in sun screen and a bunch of us wandered about a km to breakfast, a breeze lightly blowing and in the cafe, the tv was on in the corner, with the sound off.
My friend G consulted his phone, browsing quickly to check: the PM had visited the GG, still no announcement. About half an hour later, the silent tv stopped televising Telethon, showed instead a podium, a flag on either side and a view into the darkness of an internal corridor. The PM appeared, talked and talked (still no sound) until finally, finally, the date of the election flashed up on the screen.
I'm so glad this farce is nearing its end. After weeks and weeks of speculation and this faux campaign, hemmoraging money on government advertising that was blatantly, clearly "support uuuus" advertising, finally we get six weeks of actual campaign and on a late spring day, a visit to the local primary school (with its PTA cake stall and student art on the walls) and then for better or for worse we'll be done.
As I've previously mentioned, with the change to the Act you now have to be enrolled by 20:00 or you're not enrolling and you're not voting. Not only do I think the alteration to the Act was rude, calling the election on a Sunday is also rude, because all those people who aren't enrolled now can't go to the AEC to enrol. Fortunately for you intarweb savvy people, you can download the form and submit it online, because the time of submission is "the time when the fax has completed printing from an AEC fax machine, or when the email arrives in the AEC's email inbox." ETA: That is, 20:00 on the day the writs are issued, which at this point looks to be Wednesday.
The blogs I've been following in the lead up to the campaign have been Possyms Pollytics and The Greens Blog, both of which have been very interesting so far. (this morning's greens post, in particular, illustrates why I love them...)
I know this post is srs bzns, and this lj is about fandom things, but this is SO IMPORTANT I want to make sure every Australian does what they have to.
Except for poor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
koalathebear, who cannot.
My friend G consulted his phone, browsing quickly to check: the PM had visited the GG, still no announcement. About half an hour later, the silent tv stopped televising Telethon, showed instead a podium, a flag on either side and a view into the darkness of an internal corridor. The PM appeared, talked and talked (still no sound) until finally, finally, the date of the election flashed up on the screen.
I'm so glad this farce is nearing its end. After weeks and weeks of speculation and this faux campaign, hemmoraging money on government advertising that was blatantly, clearly "support uuuus" advertising, finally we get six weeks of actual campaign and on a late spring day, a visit to the local primary school (with its PTA cake stall and student art on the walls) and then for better or for worse we'll be done.
As I've previously mentioned, with the change to the Act you now have to be enrolled by 20:00 or you're not enrolling and you're not voting. Not only do I think the alteration to the Act was rude, calling the election on a Sunday is also rude, because all those people who aren't enrolled now can't go to the AEC to enrol. Fortunately for you intarweb savvy people, you can download the form and submit it online, because the time of submission is "the time when the fax has completed printing from an AEC fax machine, or when the email arrives in the AEC's email inbox." ETA: That is, 20:00 on the day the writs are issued, which at this point looks to be Wednesday.
The blogs I've been following in the lead up to the campaign have been Possyms Pollytics and The Greens Blog, both of which have been very interesting so far. (this morning's greens post, in particular, illustrates why I love them...)
I know this post is srs bzns, and this lj is about fandom things, but this is SO IMPORTANT I want to make sure every Australian does what they have to.
Except for poor
koalathebear, who cannot.
