Their vote is mandatory (compulsory, I believe is what they call it in Oz?) so no doubt he will be voting, …but not on our bitter pill.  Nope. Maybe big@l will tell a little bit about what mandatory vote is like?  & how recently even the Betties have been afforded the vote in Oz.  Not the aboriginals though, they are stuck with the trees and the herbs … & the milky white way, oh yay.  Nah, that’s not true, women for a while now … & aboriginals attained suffrage when…1962 or ‘67 or the like?   Heh, just funnin’ ya, @l.  ~ I think a mandatory vote would allow for an eventual break-up of our present two-party purgatory.  Everyone MUST vote might be a promoter (after a few years of just fudging ballots out of spite) of people voting their conscience and not just going along to get along by picking the lesser of two boll weevils. I don’t know though: they have us getting fined & taxed & penalized and padding the revenue coffers every which way but loose now, …one more rule could break the public purse … and then what?  Public housing behind triple razor wire fence and twelve-on-twelve-off manual labor for bread and pea soup for the lower 97% … & middle-management for the 98^th percentile?  While 99 & 100 watch themselves on tee-vee and make up new awards and medals for only the most classy & stylish jet-set hierarchal topper-most @ the cusp of the colony?  Oh, brother.  Ommmm, …aaaaamen.

Oh oh say can you see … by the dawns early light …

Power to the people … power to the people, right-on

Koombaya My Lord..., Koombaya...

Santa Claus is coming to town

Burnin’ down the house

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Made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree / Wind rose up set him down on his knee / Wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw / Delivered him wings………

...papa's got a brand new band