21 things Vote Compass reveals about Australians

I know this may be of limited interest to the TFP as a whole. But I’m sure there are a few other Aussies here.
So, first I better explain what the Vote Compass is.
When the Australian elections were called on the 4th August by our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the ABC launched a web site that asked you 30 questions related to what you think Australian Federal policies should be. You were given six options ranging from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree and Don’t Know.
Here’s an example of the first question,
Topic: Workplace Relations
Question: Trade unions have too much power in the workplace.
Response: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, Don’t Know
Based on your responses to the questions, the Vote Compass generates an analysis of how your views compare to the positions of the candidates in the three major parties.
The Election is tomorrow and by now 1,296,936 people have used the Vote Compass. So now the ABC has published weighted data showing what Australians think.
The data has been weighted by gender, age, education, enrolment as a student, religion, marital status, industry and state using the latest population estimates to be a true representation of opinion at the time of the field.
So here are the 21 things the ABC has published.
21 things Vote Compass reveals about Australians - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
And here are a few I found interesting.
10. Gay marriage has majority support
Fifty-two per cent of people support gay marriage, compared to 36 per cent who believe marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
Women and single voters are more likely to support gay marriage than men and people who are married.
The closer you live to the inner city, the more likely you are to support gay marriage.
13. Australians want mining companies to pay more tax.
Fifty-nine per cent believe miners should pay more, compared to 10 per cent who think they should pay less.
14. An overwhelming majority supports legalised voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill.
18. Most support acknowledging Indigenous Australians as the first inhabitants.
Seventy per cent of voters say they support amending the Constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians
20. There's widespread backing for tighter rules on foreign ownership of Australian farmland.
More than 75 per cent of Australians support firmed rules. And it turns out PM Kevin Rudd is one of them.
So I’ll be watching whoever takes power tomorrow & it’ll be interesting to see if Australia’s views as revealed here are taken into consideration in whatever policy decisions they make.

 

Sorry mate, I'm not really the one to answer this.
I've only really been trying to follow politics these last 6 months. Alot of it is still over my head.
I think it's something to do with the wording of our original constitution. Maybe not recognizing the original aboriginal Australians as owning any of the land?
I'm only guessing. I was hoping someone would have taken the question for me by now. Haha.

*Australian Federal Election Results 2013*


76.3% Counted at 6:56am (i'm assuming EST, it's only 5:10am here now) Labor - 51 seats Coalition - 81 seats

Live Results Overview - Australia Votes | Federal Election 2013 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Here are a few more short ones that will show you an overview of todays polling.






Isn’t it disrespectful how these idiots are protesting our leaders as they try to cast their vote.

Clive Palmer set to win Fairfax in Queensland
Clive Palmer set to win Fairfax in Queensland | The Mercury

Labor candidate Peter Beattie 'not embarrassed' if he loses Forde fighthttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/beattie-not-embarrassed-if-he-loses-forde-fight/4936652

 

I havent followed the Aussie elections, with the exception of one story that made the US press.

Australian Sarah Palin calls Islam a country, quits race

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It looks like Murdoch won through his dirty tricks again.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1iZW_HISQ

 

I know this made American tv early in the campaign.

 

Peter Beattie, (the fifth video i posted) was supposed to be Labors vote getter.
He came back from retirement, much to his wifes horror, to help Labor gain some seats in QLD.
It was supposed to help offset the seats Labor was going to loose in the rest of the country.

This is the old story to explain my reference to his wife
No Cookies | The Courier-Mail
This is a story on his return
Labor brings back Peter Beattie to contest seat of Forde, dumps pre-selected candidate Des Hardman - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I just saw on ABC24 tv that Peter has a trailer half full of his political propaganda ready for the rubbish tip. I can't find the story online yet. He has given up hope.

 

Well, a lot of the things the majority of Australians wanted won't happen now.

Gay Marriage with Ab-butt at the helm? No chance in hell.

Further taxes on mining corporations, given the Liberal's pro-business stance, is also a no-go.

Better immigration policies, when Abbott's brilliant plan is to buy up all the boats so smugglers can't ferry people anymore? Ironic, considering Abbott is another dumbass who immigrated from the UK to Australia.

The NBN internet plan is also gone. Anyone who knows just how bad Aussie internet is, would cry at the stupidity.

It is a complete shame that Aussies were not able to look past the debacle that was Julia Gillard's leadership and elite backstabbing skills. Rudd is far and away a better leader than that smug Abbott could ever be, and would have been a God-send for maintaining Australia's relationships with Asia-Pacific.

I guess at least the Americans can look forward to another poodle government to do the bidding of the US.

 

I have a feeling Abbott will surprise some people there. I reckon he was right to sideline the gay marriage issue during an election. It isn't really a country changing policy change. It won't effect most Aussies, and the dominos around the world have started falling.
Marriage laws will be changed. NZ guaranteed it. We won't be shown up by our smaller neighbor.
I think Abbott will do the conscience vote, and when it has majority support, they'll just slip the changes through and update the laws.
No fuss.
The PM will vanish into the shadows of Canberra after this week and start doing his job. The media circus of the past few years is over.
We won't have a breaking news story every time the PM breaks wind

 

Little good can come from an Abbott PMship.

It will be interesting to see if he will slide centre or try to govern as his right wing election rhetoric positioned him.

He strikes me as not bright enough to see the need to become a centrist.

 

I dunno. He almost stuck to script during the election. He might finally have a decent handler.
Call me an optimist. I don't think this is such a bad result.
I'm keen to watch what happens next

 

The one point I can agree on when it comes to Abbott's victory being a good thing, is that the Labour party desperately needed to flush out a lot of their idiot members.