An open letter to the informal voters of Australia

To all those of those that listened to Mark Latham and for some unknown reason unsuccessfully filled out a ballot slip - thank you.

Thank you for wasting your time.
Thank you for wasting our time.
Thank you for wasting volunteer's time.
Thank you for wasting the government's time.
Thank you for wasting the media's time.
Thank you for wasting valuable and expensive resources.
Thank you for wasting tax payers money.
Thank you for wasting your opinion and voice in a country where we're fortunate to have these things.

Right now this country is a joke. We have no government because there are idiots like yourselves who were too lazy to have to think for a second about who they would want to run this country and spend a minute or so filling in a few boxes.

Instead you either:

• Left them blank and put them in the boxes, 
• Were too dumb to read the instructions on the sheets you were given, or
• Drew stupid little drawings which I highly doubt those counting the votes would find amusing.

So on behalf of the 15 or so million Australian's that did the right thing,

Thank you.

...and in case you couldn't guess...

I vote Liberal : )

And remember:

We are very fortunate to have the right to vote, so make it count.

Things I think the government and the coalition should consider:

1. Climate change has happened since the dawn of mankind - it's nothing new so why are you wasting billions of dollars telling us we need to take drastic changes for the future of tomorrow when somehow we've managed to survive for thousands of years?


2. Support for parents, families, the elderly, the unemployed, first home buyers, new parents...WHAT ABOUT STUDENTS? We have to pay thousands of dollars each year in tuition fees unlike your generation as well as the yearly cost of buying books and supplies then add on living expenses - travel to/from uni, food, rent, etc. Where's the support for students who are at university and work part time but weren't able to get government assistance because our parents earn "too much" a.k.a. over $150,000 p.a.? We're contributing members of society and as adults our parents don't want to keep giving us cash handouts. 


3. Infrastructure - Australia's population is rapidly growing whether you like it or not. Nobody in their right mind would want to live in the most rural of places and Australia's cities aren't well designed. Let's not turn into Beijing with their thousands of skyscrapers housing millions. We need more sub-cities close to the state capitals but far away enough that the major cities aren't becoming overpopulated. We need better transport systems to cater for the masses and more toll free major roads with more then 2-3 lanes each way.


That's all I can think of for now but before I finish I just thought I'd share this piece about the pro's and con's of voting for Labor and Liberal. No I did not just add it because it favors Liberal, I added it because it's quite humerous.


"Political reasons can not and should not be justified by the appearance or beliefs of the party leaders.
IE: 
Redhead ranga should get back to the kitchen
or
Abbot is a Christian zealot with an ugly face.

Reason to not vote Labor:
1) 150 billion spending in under 3 years (Source: http://www.aofm.gov.au/)
2) 10 billion dollars a year in debt from interest alone
3) Claiming to be the reason for saving Australia from the Global Financial Crisis when infact it was the Liberal reforms from the former government which saved this country (Along with the export boom to China).
4) Mindless spending with no successful outcomes. So far all projects done by Labor have been wasteful or unsuccessful.
5) Constant false promises
6) Labor has ALWAYS put this country to debt. It took 10 years to get rid of the Hawk/Keating Labor debt.
7) Disastrous Labor implementation of: Fuelwatch, Grocery watch, pink batts, school halls, 38 of 260 promised child care centres...

Reasons not to vote Liberal:
1) Against the National Broadband Network.
2) Bringing back minor aspects of Work Choices (Note: Work choices from former Liberal Government is DEAD).

Reasons to vote Liberal:
1) Nine of the shadow ministers have been ministers in a successful government.
2) Liberal's HAVE worked out their budget plans unlike Labor who have never made nor released any.
3) Liberals have always paid off debt caused by Labor and has kept this country in surplus.
4) Realistic. No bullshit claims like "Laptop for every child", Liberals have their head straight.

Reasons to vote Labor:
1) National Broadband Network

Other:
Voting Green means Labor automatically get your vote.
End of the Liberal government saw Australia with a 40 billion dollar surplus.
Labor now sees Australia in >80 billion dollars of debt (Even that is a conservative figure).

You need a new GOVERNMENT not a new Prime minister to change this country. Just because Rudd is out, it won't change anything. 
Labor's ONLY way of bringing the country back to surplus is TAX. See the mining tax failure? Look further back, the tax on cigarettes, do you honestly think it was for our health? No. It was so that Labor can rake in more money to fund it's ludicrous spending."

[shake what your mamma gave ya]

Time to put on the sweat bands and leg warmers and get moving!

Something We're Becoming / Time Machine feat. Maggie Horn

Bring It All Back / S Club 7

Can't Hold Back / Kaz James feat. Macy Gray

Bulletproof / La Roux

About You Now / Sugababes

Walking on Sunshine / Katrina and the Waves

Till the Dawn / Drew Sidora

You Make My Dreams / Hall & Oates

Hit Me Up / Gia Farrell

Can't Touch It / Ricki Lee Coulter

Please Don't Stop the Music / Rihanna

Fruit Machine / The Ting Tings

Bust A Move / Young MC

Dance In The Dark / Lady GaGa

Dancing With Myself / Billy Idol

Jump (For My Love) / Girls Aloud

Huddle Formation / The Go! Team

What I Like About You / The Kinks

Forever Remix / Gareth Nevins [Original: Chris Brown]

I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas

My favourite political quotes...

In the spirit of what's going to happen next Saturday here in Australia I thought I'd list my favourite quotes by my favourite world leaders.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

Winston, you're drunk!

I may be drunk Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you'll still be ugly.

Winston Churchill to Bessie Braddock

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

John Howard

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Richard M. Nixon

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Those eyes dominated and they're absolutely right. How come I failed? How come my mission failed? how come as the commander who has the total responsibility-- We learn that, it's ingrained in us, because when we take responsibility it means the responsibility of life and death, of humans that we love.

L. Gen Romeo Dallaire on the Rwanden Genocide

[change is hard, i should know]

Since I'm on the path to becoming a new, improved person I thought this weeks playlist could be all about change in one form or another and songs to inspire.

Imagine / John Lennon

Change / Taylor Swift

Tesselate / Tokyo Police Club

Everybody's Changing / Keane

21st Century Life / Sam Sparro

Any Other World / MIKA

Play That Funky Music / Wild Cherry

Bless the Broken Road / Rascal Flatts

Change / Daniel Merriweather feat. Wale

When You Believe / Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston

Somewhere Over the Rainbow & What A Wonderful World / Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Just Stand Up / Various Artists

The Climb / Miley Cyrus

You Raise Me Up / Westlife

Born to Run / Bruce Springsteen

Beautiful Day / U2

The Final Countdown / Europe

I Can See Clearly Now (The Rain Is Gone) / Jimmy Cliff

Defying Gravity / Glee [Original: Wicked]

Seasons of Love / Stevie Wonder

xoxo B