Australia election: Fines, donkey votes and democracy sausages - BBC News 

Patrick Curtain oh he eats sausage all right

Only dick that's why he's afraid of eating it normaly that gay homophobe

Must of only ever watched Bill Shorten eat one.

he is homophobic , that's why , cant just put it into his mouth knobend first .

@@louislungbubble just the tip

Be careful! The Loony Left will say that your discriminating against him because he Identifies as a sideways sausage eater......

*Cardinal sin... a carnal sin would involve an entirely different type of sausage ;-)

@@digitaldreamer9 .. and George Pell.

@@digitaldreamer9 😂👍

@@Shaun.Stephens 😂👍

And the sausage should go corner to corner on the bread.

And from the back too? Like it's not even logical. The sausage is going to fall off.

This is why we want a republic!

bill who? Oh wait now I remember, you mean the former opposition leader?!

@OceanBlue No, we are Australian. Established by the British yes, but we should move on to a brighter future. anyways right now we are more american than British.

@OceanBlue The British were not the first people on this land they will not be he last. I am a 2nd generation Australian with Chinese heratige and I love my country just as much as the 3rd generation Australian with Italian heratige, or the 10th generation Australian with British heritage, or the Indigenous Australian whose ancestors have been on this land centuries before British colonisation. Ethnicity has nothing to do with nationality and Australia is great because of our multiculturalism, and not because of a forgien monarchy.

Stricko Is Here oh he has had a LOT Of practice putting sausages down his throat

thats a bloody outrage...[takes out pitchfork]

Thats what beer is for.

Someone s Bill Shorten does and that’s how he lost the election...

Damn right! Anyone notice how Bill ate his democracy sausage yesterday? Reckon he got a mouth full of paper too! Bloody hopeless. 🤣👏🇦🇺

in melb cbd probably only about half a piece of bloody flake with that amount :D

Forget trying to get fish and chips at that price in freo, unless the shop is shithouse at cooking the stuff. The only thing 20 dollaridoos gets ya is a bit of fun from a guy wearing a shirt saying they ain't gay but 20 bucks is 20 bucks.

He should go back to Russia.

Stevo F that’s why Shorten is ineligible to be in Parliament.

yep mines done and dusted last week...

just did mine

The reason I know you're full of crap is you need evidentiary reasoning to postal vote or vote early. It's not an option for those that can't be bothered.

Over half of my electorate has already voted

@@ocanain1731, early voting and postal voting is open to everyone.

Math works for more than 2 parties

A voting system based on math!

We had a referendum on that (the UK). We rejected it. I prefer actual proportional representation.

It doesn't work as well as it sounds in theory. A lot of majority votes come from the 2nd preference. Most people know one candidate and then auto fill the rest at random.

For most seats in the house of reps (lower house) the counts are still very simple. The primary votes (number 1) are tallied as this determines some funding (about $3 per vote) and the votes are tallied on 2 party preferred between the 2 likely front runners. It's only if there is third runner who is close that the full process is followed which can be very slow.

ScoMo ate his sausage and drank labors milkshake 😎😎😎

@@life4fireforever273 He ate a fucksight more than one sausage.

Ehhh, in my opinion, you're there. So you might as well vote. It's a waste of time/energy to wait in the line just to get ticked off and go.

Corn O' Cob If you don’t vote or want to vote but must be registered you must get crossed off. It’s an inconvenience but I’d rather spend 2 bucks on fuel getting crossed off than an 80$ fine. Then there’s the problem of voting for who you want too vote for. Which in many cases, the candidate is not in your electorate.

@Jack Richardson That would not suit me. I prefer order to disorder. By using my "None of the Above" I would, hopefully, force a situation of greater order. If none of the candidates were found acceptable, then the election would be re-run. I would not leave a vacuum, but force parties to improve the calibre of candidates, and to develop sound policies.

And now you have May Corbyn and Farage because you couldn't be fucked voting hahahahah.

Informal votes, regardless if whether they were accidentally incorrect or deliberately invalid, are counted and the number is reported along with the election results. At the 2022 federal election, just over 5% of votes nationally were informal. Only 5 out of 100 votes were invalid and not all of them were intentionally informal. 96 % of people eligible to vote were registered on the electoral role for this election. This shows that the percentage of people who don't give a stuff is pretty low and the majority of people who go to the polling booth value the opportunity to have their say.

Lindsay Williams it shows how bad Labor is. They can’t even appeal to their target audience.

The pubs will be sad - I clearly remember 10 years ago when all the dole bludgers were given a $1000 bribe by labor to get their vote I heard a conversation between two guys about how they had spent most of that money on alcohol and gambling. Nice way to spend Australians money Labor.

@@michaelstanton4059 no it's because the mainstream media is constantly sucking off the libs every chance they get, I would strongly strongly recommend you watch some friendlyjordies, my friend

@@amethyst1737 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eIrWMApmfOc.html

@@amethyst1737 that $1000 'bribe' was designed to get people spending to avoid a recession in 2008. Going down to the pub and getting a few beers was literally the entire point of it and it worked

Sensible man - eat as much bread and as little of that 'meat' product as possible. An Aussie sausage is an abomination to a Brit.

Voting is not compulsory! Here in Australia

@@marvinmartinsYTAbstaining the Vote is punishable by fines in all states

@@shubhsharma7725 Nope. You can simply have your name crossed off the list and leave. You are required to be registered. If registered you are required to turn up at booth. That’s all ! No fine involved. Or you can collect the ballot, write fuck off on it. Or rip it up. Or no1 in every box. You are not required to place a ballot.

@@marvinmartinsYT We have NOTA: None of The Above option at the bottom of voting machines in India. I vote for it every time and many of the voters in high turnout elections are actually NOTA voters

Why do amy.of.that?

It’s not a good idea at all. Most Aussies work Saturday. It should be Sunday.

@@marvinmartinsYT Saturday is sports day and part of the weekend.

Rnl Valen Sports day? What the hell is that. ?

@@marvinmartinsYT I bet less are working on Saturday than Tuesday.

Thirst Fast Lol we don’t vote on Tuesdays.

@Tucker Cahooter beautiful man, I got 12 sausages for dinner tomorrow 8^D

Voting is not forced here. It is not compulsory at all. You can go to the booth, cross your name off the list and leave. You don’t even have to take a ballot paper.

@@marvinmartinsYT ok, so we have a compulsory box ticking excercise then..

vitamincisgoodforme No! You don’t have to vote here. You just have to be registered that’s all. You are not require to mark a ballot or tick boxes.

@@marvinmartinsYT box ticking excercise = getting your name ticked off the list. Pointless.

your forced to show up at gun point, that is immoral

voters number the candidates on the ballot paper in the order of their preference

@@honestbusiness1371 yeah and even if your number one doesn't get voted in for every vote they get they get benefits like $2400 for campinaing and other stuff

use a pen

the government has no right to point a gun to my head and force me to show up

The American Democratic party symbol is the Donkey, makes sense to me!

This video is about the election itself not the candidates.

The candidates are actually listed based on a randomised lottery draw

They were listed alphabetically until fairly recently (late 90's if I remember) but know they are random.

Random ballot ordering was introduced in 1984. In local elections in the ACT they go one step further and every ballot is printed with a different random candidate order. That makes HTV cards basically useless, therefore you don’t get mobbed on your way in.

Dude. It is not compulsory to vote in Australia. It is only compulsory to be registered.

Well, you could go to Bunnings . . .

Omg. You’re the only one in these comments that has it right.

No, you don't have to vote, you just have to turn up and get ticked off the books. It's up to you if you want to tick off the ballot paper.

@@3goldfinger Ok smart arse, if you want to split hairs. You are still being forced to do something that is a waste of time. Very undemocratic.

ALA you speak of democracy but are saying you object in being part of it lol..its ok mate the rest of the country will continue to make decisions for people like you as we always do and by 'people' like you I mean those without the ability to reason and make a judgement call on a topic... just remember if you dont vote you hand over your rights to who ever we vote in...

@@meheretoday6968 You are assuming a lot with your righteous bollocks.

Preference voting provides valuable information and encourages bipartisanship. Without it a minor party wouldn't have as accurate data on where they should spend their resources, knowledge of where they can potentially sway enough people to win a seat. And they also wouldn't be getting as much public funding because less people would put them first knowing that it's a wasted vote. And if a major party is in power because of the preference deals they made, it's in both parties interests to work together, as major party if they go make moves that are against that minor party will lose votes in next election and the minor party get to have at least some of their policies backed by the major parties.

@@heatherd7353 What you say makes sense. It does not however, explain why many people just number the list, 1,2,3,4,5 regardless of who they all are. Nor does it explain how any normal human being can possible sort out the different numbers. We'd like to think there's integrity in those that have to sort the votes out, but they are so convoluted it looks impossible. I often wonder, is there a better way?

Preference voting stops nut jobs from being in power.

@@melaniegrand9545 I can't defend the donkey vote but it's just done by people who don't care about politics, I doubt the % of people who do it is any different than people putting a 1 next to a random name. On the counting of the votes, the process isn't very different, just longer. They don't sort it out all at once. They just count all the first preferences like anywhere else. Then they eliminate people who can't win, and for anyone who voted for them, the sorters look at all the number 2 votes and add it to the tally, and so on until someone has over 50% of the total vote.

It's still unethical to force people to even show up. I do not give a damn what the government says I ignore their laws (threats)

Compulsory voting is like like compulsory taxes- both are good for you.

What the heck? That is completely different.

@FozzyBear - 💩4🧠's

if we actually care we vote... if we begrudge the time it takes to get to the booth to vote we at least get to wash the whinging down with a sanga ...preferably with onion but dont go via Bunnings whilst eating it lol

@ formworksucks It favours a center Left/center Right party, in Australia extremes cannot win. And in a world of lunatics thats a good thing.

It is not compulsory to vote in Australia! Ffs how many people don’t know this is amazing

@@marvinmartinsYT You are just being pedantic to appear clever, it is effectively.

SirAntoniousBlock Lol no. Just stating fact.

Australians vote for a party,we don't technically vote for a leader,the party decides to maintain or change it's leader.So no need for any coup. The Governor General as the Queen's representative can sack the governing party if it fucks up really bad,that last happened in 1975.

It's the revolving door system, the trick is to not let it hit up the rear on the way out .

The party throws their leader under the bus as soon as the polling indicates that leader is a liability. It happened with Labor's Bill Hayden just before an election and it will keep happening so long as nervous politicians keep watching the polls to see if they have another three years on the gravy train.

voters number the candidates on the ballot paper in the order of their preference

Math

Brilliant

Uk .we want another vote 🙄

I'm Australian and I'm against compulsory voting. Most people have no idea who they're voting for or what each party actually stands for. The result is that a lot of votes cancel each other out due to randomness.

John Paul sounds like every government that isn’t communist

Dont forget all the muppets inbetween🤪👍

No, you have the choice between a range of parties. Sure, one of the major parties will probably win but they'll take notice of the preferential votes that got them across the line. If the vote was close then the winning party will take a look at the preferential votes and maybe consider incorporating some of the other party's policies into their policies. I'm sorry, but just being apathetic about it isn't the way to go.

@@Sparrowash97 You forgot to whine about imaginary communists.

@@ads214 yeah they will take notice of the preferential votes like i take notice of the toilet paper after wiping my arse

they don't

In 2016 - 3 year terms

@stray dog7 The fine is about $75, Australia is licking the balls of the NWO,while Canada works full time on it's knob.

stray dog7 The fine is about 80$.

Jack Richardson Jack, you star!! What a great reply. Unusual for RU-vid comments. They always scare me.

Rehaan Bhai Good luck with your studies.

Millions don't do that. Only idiots donkey vote.

A small coffee here (Aus) is about $4 (£2.15)

George who?

@@michaeld3303 Is that a joke or don't you have Google where you are?

Shaun Stephens you moron that has nothing to do with George Pell. And here you are wondering whether others have google.

Shaun Stephens straight from google: Cardinal sin: noun. (in Christian tradition) any of the seven deadly sins. This is not a new phrase mate. Educate yourself.

replying r/whoosh doesn’t retrospectively make your ignorance into a joke. Nothing about what you wrote was funny, it was just wrong. It’s r/whoooosh btw.

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