Woman jailed for refusing to vote

Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/21/national/national16.html Friday, May 21, 1999 Woman jailed for a day for refusing to vote A Melbourne mother of four spent the day in jail yesterday for failing to vote at the past two Federal elections - because she thought no

Re: Woman jailed for refusing to vote

I saw the report on telly, and am with the lady in principle. However, there is little else to be achieved that way but the publicity she managed so well. Personally, when faced with an enforced choice between two minutes in a polling booth and a day in chokey (with strip search, etc, etc), I'd

Re: Woman jailed for refusing to vote

Australia is a democracy but unfortunately the majority of people in this democracy do not have the courage of their convictions to stand up to the bully boys of Australian politics and tell them where to stick their compulsory ballots. They are such cowards that they will not even dare to take

Multanovas (or is it multanovae?)

At 14:05 21/05/99 +0800, Brian Jenkins wrote: I haven't even got the guts to speed up when I see a Multanova camera. Speed up? That's a bit timid. You're supposed to run over the bloody things. Sounds as if you mightn't even toss a cloth over one if you were on foot. Dion

LL:ART: Woman jailed for refusing to vote

Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/21/national/national16.html Friday, May 21, 1999 Woman jailed for a day for refusing to vote A Melbourne mother of four spent the day in jail yesterday for failing to vote at the past two Federal elections - because she thought no

Re: Woman jailed for refusing to vote

At 17:07 21/05/99 +1000, Mark Holsworth wrote: If you don't support the AEC turn up to the next election wearing a t-shirt reading "AEC = NAZI" and hang around the electoral station tearing up ballot papers because "you made a mistake in expressing your preferences" and you would like another

Re: Woman jailed for refusing to vote

Yep, just write "none of these" and spend the time destroying the dictatorship, not in the dictatorships jails. -Original Message- From: Brian Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: alister air [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Fw: Modern Banking

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Fw: Knee deep in the big muddy (http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/05-08-99/inter

Title: WORLD May 8, 1999: Knee deep in the big muddy -Original Message-From: Philip Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Alan Esson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Friday, 21 May 1999 6:20 AMSubject: Knee deep in the big muddy (http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/05-08-99/inter

Continuous war (abroad) for continuous peace (at home).

Death Merchants' View: War Is Great. Peace Sucks. Long Live NATO! PHOENIX, May 19 - War is great. Peace sucks. Long live NATO! The preceding slogans could just about sum up the death merchants' views of NATO's war on Serbia. And no wonder... Wall Street investors who backed the death