Australia parliament to grill Apple, Microsoft and Adobe about high prices

[topcat]

Just to clarify all this.

You can write anything on the ballot paper, anything at all.
"None of the above", "jail the bad men" or "don't forget to buy the milk" or even a limerick.
Or you can write in the boxes anything that will convey to the tallypersons your actual intent to vote for your least less preferred candidate.  You can write "1" or "one" or "I", "2", "Two" or "II", "III","IV" etc for that matter "0000","0001","0010","0011" etc. It is up to the returning officer to determine that you have made your intent clear under the moronic preferential voting system (hence "your least less preferred candidate").

The Australian voting system is based on the simple precept that the candidate that is elected is the one that most of the people dislike the least.
Strange but true.

[Tony]

 

[harley]

www.aec.gov.au/faqs/voting_australia.htm

[Tony]

Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate seat

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/julian-assange-to-run-for-australian-senate-seat/story-e6frg6n6-1226565414301

AAP
January 30, 2013 8:42PM
JULIAN Assange will run for a Senate seat in the 2013 federal election and his mum reckons he'll be awesome. 

Christine Assange has confirmed her son's candidacy, after WikiLeaks tweeted the news.

"He will be awesome," she said.

"In the House of Representatives we get to choose between US lackey party number one and US lackey party number two - between the major parties.

"So it will be great to `Assange' the Senate for some Aussie oversight."

Queensland-born Assange, who founded the secret-leaking website WikiLeaks, announced his Senate ambition last December from Ecuador's London embassy.

He sought refuge there last June in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden.

He said last year he would run as a Senate candidate under a yet-to-be-formed WikiLeaks party banner and was recruiting others to stand with him.

The election will be held on September 14, 2013.
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His idea is that he'll be able to return to Australia if elected.
Otherwise he seems to be be very much a part of the furniture at Ecuador's London embassy. 

[AndrzejL]

Guys I know why everything is so overpriced in Australia... The cost of shipping is huge... Exporting anything is dangerous! You're shipping the software but after that You need to burn the boat coz You found snakes, alligators, crocodiles, spiders and Tony onboard ...

Regards.

Andrzej