politics in australia

The next few days will have the outcome of my complaint against ex therapist who from now on i will nick name as ACANTHA. i am sure some of you can look up the meaning. the therapist after the ex therapist ACANTHA i will name TURGID. I am doing this so that i am not using the ex therapist in my blogs.

Anyway now that i have had fun looking up names and meanings i thought i would give an explanation of the political situation in Australia. This blog has been precipitated because of a conversation with someone i had from America who think our politics is quite strange.

In the next five weeks we will face an election but this is what happened before an election was called. Kevin Rudd (pictured above) was our prime minister, he was a good man and able prime minister but it seemed he had some fatal flaws. he worked his staff till they were near collapsing, he swore like a trouper and he came across as a smug asshole. Consequently the polls started to show that his popularity had dropped so dramatically that it was obvious unless someone stepped in there would be a whitewash at election time and his opposition leader who i call noddy (tony Abbott) would run the country.

So a knowing that noddy might run the country a woman name Julia Gillard (pictured above) who was deputy prime minister went and had a meeting with Kevin Rudd. The outcome was that Mr Rudd stepped down and we have our first unelected female prime minister. Now she immediately stepped in and mended some damaged fences that Mr Rudd had managed to help destroy. She is not married had no kids and her partner is a hairdresser. She comes from humble backgrounds with her family immigrants.

So an election is called for the 21st august. But in order for her to call an election she has to go the queens representative and ask for Parliament to be dissolved. Why well no one really knows but for some reason we still have the queen of England running our country. Now what that means is that the queen if she doesnt like our prime minister and because she is head of the country can sack her and call for a new election. This has been done in 1976 she sacked our then prime minister mr gough whitlam, causing a new election and mr whitlams reputation ruined forever. A task the queen im sure regrets and has never undertaken again. The country was so angry at her that she didn't visit again for about five years, due to the fact that she herself might have been lynched.

So top put it in perspective our prime ministers can be sacked and replaced by their own parties, he/she can be sacked and replaced by the queen and can be sacked and replaced by an election. Great job hey. And that is effectively what happened Mr Rudd was disliked by enough people that he lost his job only three years in, this guy has an impressive record though, he saved us from a recession by giving us a brave stimulus package, he tackled the rich miners for more tax, he spoke fluent mandarin and was a great diplomat for Australia, but wanna know what he will remembered for most, losing his job to a woman.

Now also over here it is illegal to not vote, illegal to not let the electoral know when you have moved and illegal to not register to vote once turned eighteen. This will either land you in jail or give you a fine.

Hope that gives and understanding into Australian politics well at least recently anyway.

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