Poo throwing senator

[icytailmark]

can you guys believe some idiot made it to the senate because of preferential voting. We now have some poo throwing moron running the country. They seriously need to have a look at preferential voting and misleading of voters for the next election.

[Hans Tucker]

He represents the Motoring Enthusiasts Party and has been a member for three months but has has never met the party's founders. If he serves the full term he could come away with $1.2M...not bad for an unemployed father of five.

The Herald Sun had the political cartoon describing the Senate as a circus...I think that is spot on the mark.

If I had my way I would place all politicians on Performance based agreements :D

[mithrandir]

We need a German/NZ model for elections. No party gets anyone elected unless the party gets 5% of the 1st preferences.

[AstralTraveller]

Are there any pollies who don't fling poo? Anyway, this one won't run the country - he probably won't even run the tea club. I reckon some of these accidentals are going to get eaten.

[casstony]

The new Senate will make Gruen Nation, The Hamster Wheel and Insiders that much more entertaining to watch, potentially the best Senate ever :)

[Larryp]

Exactly, Andrew!

[bobson]

Exactly! :)

[GrahamL]

imo theres something deeply poetically just around ALL OF US
voting in to high office a politicly incorrect ,roo poo throwing
pant dacking beer loving unemployed chap who knows nothing about politics or much about the party he represents..:rofl: love it!

[doppler]

Well I for one think that it might be good for us who like cars as well as telescopes to have a representative in parliment. Too many laws are screwing us all and mainly just for revenue raising.

[lazjen]

Actually, that's not a bad compromise and it's very simple to do. You could adjust the 5% figure down a bit if you want, but it would still allow the preferential system to work.

[Steffen]

Hahaha, I was about to say, he'll fit right in :D

[icytailmark]

what is this country coming to? National Kanga poo throwing day!!!!!

[DavidU]

The Mericans have a laugh at our political stuff, as we do of them.

[doppler]

2000 votes? maybe we can start the astronomers party and ban light polution. The scary thing is now that people know that you can get elected on a whim the balot paper will be very long indeed

[AstroJunk]

Call ourselves the Lightless Night Party, or LNP for short and get ourselves a slot in column A. That's how the NSW senate vote works isnt it?! We'll easilly get a couple up :rofl:

[multiweb]

The only ones laughing all the way to the bank are the pollies.

[omegacrux]

Politics I thought it was a no no subject ?

[el_draco]

I call that Status quo :rolleyes:

[iceman]

I don't think this thread serves much purpose and isn't going to lead to much intelligent discussion.