Thank you! I'm glad to have it. ...Especially since you're the one who twisted my arm the FIRST go around...Cormac:You both have my support.
...............what?Cronaal:You do not have Cronaal's support. You have been a very popular delegate in previous times, and the first I truly experienced and spoke to, but we wish to see new blood.
Thank youmidtkandal:You both have my full support.
Cronaal:You do not have Cronaal's support. You have been a very popular delegate in previous times, and the first I truly experienced and spoke to, but we wish to see new blood.
Thanks for understanding, I'd be like that if I was old enough and cared to vote in real life.mcmasterdonia:Thank youmidtkandal:You both have my full support.
Cronaal:You do not have Cronaal's support. You have been a very popular delegate in previous times, and the first I truly experienced and spoke to, but we wish to see new blood.
Thanks for the honesty. as I have said before, I always support bringing in fresh blood and new faces were possible. I fully expected Aba or Nwahs (possibly both to run), but Aba was recently removed and Nwahs is happy being speaker. I still hope that this will be a competitive election and that the campaign itself will bring in many new faces and ideas.
I thought Australia was just a big abbey run by an abbot named Tony. I fear that I am dreadfully wrong.mcmasterdonia:Australia is Democratic. We ranked 12th on the World Global Democracy index in 2012. We have regular, free, fair, meaningful, and fully franchised, elections at local, state and federal level. Our constitution cannot be amended without going through an exhaustive process and extensive public consultation. We do not require a piece of paper with our rights written on them, in order to protect them.
That said, there have been some 'minor' corruption issues in recent years. We have had serious instability in federal leadership for a number of years. Our Government is not always transparent, and seems willing to support torture, genocide, and violence in foreign lands as long as it is not in the public mind/site and as long as our ally is the one doing it. Not too unlike the United States. Vested interests, including corporate, mining, and media interests have held far too much power in our politics in recent years. Our media is strongly controlled by Rupert Murdoch and other Mining Billionaires who brought down our elected governments when they start to question how much money the state and our people actually receive for our resources. I could keep going for days.
FunkadeliaFunkadelia:McMasterdonia
plembobria:You said you wouldn't run in January unless you saw a need for you to be the Delegate. What exactly evinces a need for you to run?
I thought Australia was just a big abbey run by an abbot named Tony. I fear that I am dreadfully wrong.mcmasterdonia:Australia is Democratic. We ranked 12th on the World Global Democracy index in 2012. We have regular, free, fair, meaningful, and fully franchised, elections at local, state and federal level. Our constitution cannot be amended without going through an exhaustive process and extensive public consultation. We do not require a piece of paper with our rights written on them, in order to protect them.
That said, there have been some 'minor' corruption issues in recent years. We have had serious instability in federal leadership for a number of years. Our Government is not always transparent, and seems willing to support torture, genocide, and violence in foreign lands as long as it is not in the public mind/site and as long as our ally is the one doing it. Not too unlike the United States. Vested interests, including corporate, mining, and media interests have held far too much power in our politics in recent years. Our media is strongly controlled by Rupert Murdoch and other Mining Billionaires who brought down our elected governments when they start to question how much money the state and our people actually receive for our resources. I could keep going for days.
xDNorth East Somerset:I back #Mcmasta2015