PAX Aus 2014 Rego Now Open!

Vivixenne

Hey so Australia's election is tomorrow! Remember: vote below the line and make sure you get there early to get some free sausage sizzle - I hear they run out super fast.

(Here is a map with all the sausage sizzles happening at various polling locations: http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/)

THE CANDIDATES

Kevin Rudd

Current leader of the Labor Party and recently re-instated Prime Minister. Seriously, it's like musical chairs over there. Bit of an egomaniac, but hey he's at least willing to lay a smackdown or two when it comes to people whining about how he supports marriage equality. Backed by himself and barely anyone else it seems. Wants to stop the boats by diverting them away from Australia for settlement in places like Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

Tony Abbott

Current leader of the Liberal Party and an all-round misogynist, homophobe, and creeper. Also doesn't really get how the internet or climate change works. Also has the personality of a sack of wet bricks. Backed by rich old white men like Rupert Murdoch. Wants to stop the boats better than K-Rudd does by replacing "Nauru and Papua New Guinea" with "Manus."

Christine Milne

Current leader of the Greens. I literally do not know much more about her than that because no one talks about anyone outside of Labor or Liberal. But the Greens support marriage equality, action on climate change, and not being a bunch of xenophobic racists. But they don't seem to give much of a fuck about infrastructure or service provision, or at least they haven't highlighted any major policies addressing these directly. Occasionally accused of being a bunch of hippies.

Clive Palmer
I know nothing about this guy or his self-named party apart from him being a portly white man who talks very fast about cycling money through the economy and starting a "revolution." He also wants to build a second Titanic.

Those are seriously the only four candidates I can bother mentioning at this stage because the rest are an odd assortment of everything under the sun.

PREFERENTIAL VOTING
Not sure how voting works and want to familiarise yourself before tomorrow? Or are you a foreigner who doesn't know what "preferential voting" means?



Full comic in the spoiler!

CONTROVERSY IN A SERIES OF LINKS
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/when-stephanie-got-her-facts-wrong-one-nation-candidate-makes-gaffe-after-gaffe-in-tv-interview-20130808-2rive.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-29/abbott-tells-netballers-to-make-body-contact/4920870
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/asylum-seeker-child-tries-to-take-his-life-in-detention/story-e6frg6nf-1226705301560
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-03/tv-networks-refuse-to-run-getup-anti-murdoch-ad/4932542
http://theconversation.com/can-australia-afford-the-coalitions-nbn-17494

... and so much more.

THE SE++ VOTER'S ROSTER

PERTH
Vivixenne, Blake T, Butler, Waka Laka, Kincaid, Dublo7, chrishallettbunchanumbers, BigKev, noobert, AJR, flynnie, Dhalphir, desperaterobots, PixelMonkey, Tallweirdo, Tef, Anzekay, Samuelson, RocketScience, CuZZa, webofink, EmbracethePing, Vegemyte

SYDNEY
Oden, Air, Tweaked_Bat_, bsjezz, Prohass, Gatsby, Ambassador, TrueHereticX, TheSquid, Flay, HyperBallad, Jintor, Seguer, Aegeri, stimtokolos, Lalabox, pimento

MELBOURNE
Synthetic Orange, Cyvros, YaYa, grug, ruzkin, Mr Fuzzbutt, Hitsuraptor, LaCabra, The Boy Satellite, Unlucky, SorC, Cobalt60

BRISBANE
Flyingman, Avicus, SwissLion, Crimson King, joshua11, Lorahalo, PaperLuigi44

CANBERRA
The Black Hunter, marty_0001, Chronocide

OTHER NEAT PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA
- Glorfindel (Gold Coast)
- bezerk bob (Toowoomba)
- Veldrin (Darwin)

ACTUAL AUSTRALIANS WHO ARE NOT IN AUSTRALIA (BUT PROBABLY WISH THEY WERE)
- tynic
- Tube
- #pipe

2011 HONORARY AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
- Wimble

2012 HONORARY AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
- Wimble

AWESOME KIWIS WHO ARE AWESOME
- Fishman
- lonelyahava
- KiraKiraKira
- Fletcher
- Katat
- L|ama

Raijin Quickfoot

Friend of mine on Facebook apparently got this in the mail

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Fucking awful. At least it makes sure you know who not to vote for.

Mr Fuzzbutt

Vivixenne wrote: »

Christine Milne

Well she's got my vote.

Raijin Quickfoot

Where does one purchase a jacket with a polar bear on it?

Vivixenne

somewhere in Canberra, probably

Anzekay

reposting from the other thread:

@vivixenne @Blake T @Pixelmonkey @tef @kincaid

D&D on sunday. How's 3PM or so sound? Is anyone willing to host (I can't sorry guys). It'd be nice to get confirmation soon, so I can organise a good 5-6 hours worth of stuff before then, and make sure your character sheets are all sorted and here and up-to-date.

Vivixenne

we could probably host it but I'd have to ask Blake

otherwise the time suits me fine

Vivixenne

also @lonelyahava regarding your other posts

I really don't know that Perth is going to have a better real estate market than what you're getting where you are now; in fact all indicators point to it being very bad at the moment

like, houses are more expensive now because interest rates are the lowest they've been in ages

then tack on the fact that Perth has very few affordable options within 20km of the CBD

I ain't saying don't come here, I'm just saying you'd need a bunch of really good reasons to want to come here unless you've secured employment prior to moving

Tweaked_Bat_

Vote 1 Future Party.

Kincaid

@Vivixenne
May as well move me to the list of Melbournites.

Gonna miss my Perth peeps.

Jintor

Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »

Vote 1 Future Party.

What's up with their magical city they want to build between Canberra and Sydney?

Other than that though they seem cool

PixelMonkey

@vivixenne @Blake T @Anzekay @tef @kincaid
3pm is fine for me.

PixelMonkey

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

Friend of mine on Facebook apparently got this in the mail

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Fucking awful. At least it makes sure you know who not to vote for.

What is this bullshit? Two good loving parents equals two good loving parents.

Tweaked_Bat_

Jintor wrote: »

Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »

Vote 1 Future Party.

What's up with their magical city they want to build between Canberra and Sydney?

Other than that though they seem cool

Huh I must've missed that part when I was skimming their policy page. I dunno!

Sterica

PixelMonkey wrote: »

What is this bullshit? Two good loving parents equals two good loving parents.

Did someone tell them gay marriage is fueled by the bones of children or something?

Crimson King

laughed for a solid five minutes at "beremy scumbum"

also is bob katter still around

i think we should incorporate them all into the queensland party and then throw them off a bridge

-SPI-

I did a postal vote already, this election's senate ballot is perhaps the stupidest one I have ever seen. It had over 90 candidates with probably less than a fifth of those seeming like legitimate non-bullshit. It is so absurd as to almost immune to parody.

YaYa

sigh

guess I'm voting Greens

sure would like some infrastructure!

Veldrin

Vote for Pedro


I mean wait hang on what year is this

CuZZa

marty_0001

The Greens have just straight dropped off the radar since Bob Brown left.

Donovan Puppyfucker

Vote for Wakkun!

lonelyahava

Viv, yeah

I was more just looking for some distraction from reality for a bit and I'd already exhausted trademe.

But I appreciate the heads up.

bezerk bob

Vote Palmer and have dinosaur theme parks and replica titanics as far as the eye can see.

Aegeri

Rorus Raz wrote: »

PixelMonkey wrote: »

What is this bullshit? Two good loving parents equals two good loving parents.

Did someone tell them gay marriage is fueled by the bones of children or something?

The irony being if it wasn't for Abbot (Head of the Liberals) a conscious vote in Parliament would probably see Gay Marriage succeed easily (regardless of what party was in control at the time).

It feels to me like no matter who wins the election this weekend, we lose. Though the Liberals trying to sneak by an internet filter has me very worried what else they are trying to sneak by.

Edit: Also if you Aussie folk here would like to try playing a one off game of Trail of Cthulhu, I would be very interested in running one here in Sydney.

Vivixenne

Kincaid wrote: »

@Vivixenne
May as well move me to the list of Melbournites.

Gonna miss my Perth peeps.

NOT YET

#pipe

I voted at the Australian Embassy in Vancouver last week and it was the easiest and quickest vote I've ever cast.

And yeah the senate poll is fucking ridiculous.

There is literally a party called "Stop the Greens"

Vivixenne

does anyone know which NBN plan the Greens support?

-SPI-

It's actually really interesting to read through the senate candidates http://www.aec.gov.au/election/who-are-the-candidates.htm paying attention to their occupations.

For a lot of them the Golgafrincham B Ark from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind.

Mr Fuzzbutt

#pipe wrote: »

I voted at the Australian Embassy in Vancouver last week and it was the easiest and quickest vote I've ever cast.

And yeah the senate poll is fucking ridiculous.

There is literally a party called "Stop the Greens"

The fact that all the other parties hate the Greens with a passion means they must be doing something right.

AJR

Vivixenne wrote: »

does anyone know which NBN plan the Greens support?

They support labor's plan.

Doobh

So, how boned are you Australian-types

I'm done with American elections (ha ha I wish)

what does the rest of the world offer

Flay

Democracy must be stopped.

Vivixenne

pretty boned

lots of polls showing Abbott winning

which would be not so good a thing if you are not a man, straight, white, or over 40

Vivixenne

to quote back-in-the-day Viv, democracy is really only excellent when more than 50% of your population aren't stupid or bigoted

Vivixenne

is Clive Palmer the same guy who's building Titanic II

because I find it hilarious that he's mega-rich enough to do that and is also running for office

Flay

Yup, he's the one. I have no idea how someone who sounds so stupid made so much money.

We got a Titanic II DVD in the mail that my mum is keeping for posterity.

SorC

We're pretty boned. We basically have 2 bad options and the option that's worse in terms of progressive policy is the one that's polling better.

Vivixenne

oh also - Bob Katter popped up on the news a few weeks ago when he came out in support of some musician or footy player running for MP

he was asked the marriage equality question

his answer was basically "I'd like to focus my attention on more important issues if that's all right with you"

that made me grumpy for quite a while and I'm pretty sure I yelled CHECK YO PRIVILEGE at the TV

Veldrin

Clive Palmer seems like a rich guy who got really drunk one night and started ranting about how could rule this country and just never really sobered up.

#pipe

Vivixenne wrote: »

pretty boned

lots of polls showing Abbott winning

which would be not so good a thing if you are not a man, straight, white, or over 40

don't forget independantly wealthy!