Today is the day – get out there and vote!

Today, in Australia, we finally get the chance to exercise our democratic right and vote for our federal representatives. I’ve eagerly been awaiting today – the campaign has been tortuous and I’m more than past it. We’re going to vote at our local state primary school, where hopefully they’ll put on a better bbq and cake stall than North Sydney Boys’ High did for the last NSW state election.Both J and I made up our minds a long time ago about who we would vote for, and who we would vote against; now we can put that into action. In recent days, however, it’s been very disturbing to hear people calling in to commercial radio saying that they don’t know who they’ll vote for just yet and that their opinions and plans change with every ad they see/hear, or every leaflet they get in the letterbox.Please, if you are somebody who is in that group, please think about the direction that you want the country to go in for the next 5, 10 or even 20 years. Look to the future, use your noggin and think for yourself.Most importantly Get Out There And Vote! ----------------------- You can find your local polling places by using the AEC’s Polling Place Locator.And this evening, if you are at all interested in how the rest of your fellow citizens made their choice, tune in to the coverage on The ABC, Channel Nine or Channel Seven. Channel Ten, on the other hand, is showing this instead. Oh, sorry, I meant Star Wars.

Get Out There And Vote!

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