[plug] [OT] Ferral Politics

[Gavin Rogers]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Aunty Jack wrote:

>
> Hi you guys.
> here's the latest little thing you can do at the elections tomorrow . . .
>
> Many Australians are outraged at the current treatment of boat people as
> highlighted during the 'MV Tampa' incident.
> As a protest, for the attention of ALL parties (not just the Government), we
> are asking that everyone who is concerned at the current policies:
>
>         WRITE "TAMPA" ACROSS THE TOP OF THE BALLOT PAPER ON ELECTION DAY.
>
>         DO NOT OBSCURE ANY OF THE BOXES RECORDING YOUR VOTE.


Now might be a good time to mention that its illegal to encourage anyone
to vote informally.

Australia is one of those few countries where voting is compulsory, so
you'd might as well not waste your vote.

And before everyone starts a flame war about how all of this is irrelevant
to the PLUG list - (Yeah, it's probably borderline) - this is probably the
first (maybe second) Federal election where any party has major policy for
the IT industry in this country... Its big enough an issue now that
whoever forms the new Federal government could make or break the future of
IT in this country.



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Gavin Rogers                    |    Amateur radio station VK6HGR
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