Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Vote! Vote! Vote!
Gidday mates! As all you Aussies in Kiwiland will be aware, this Saturday is D-Day for the Howard Government. Please make sure you vote. The Greens ‘How to Votes’ can be found here.
Find out how to vote over here at the Australian High Commission’s website (you can vote in person in Auckland and Wellington on Saturday) and remind yourself why you want to vote green at the Australian Greens election site. They have lots of great video clips.
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November 22nd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Are you sure he reads frogblog? The 40,000 new Aussies this year from NZ might make a difference.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
“The Greens ‘How to Votes’ can be found here.”
“remind yourself why you want to vote green at the Australian Greens election site.”
You must not think much of you’re supporters intelligence if you need to tell them a few days before the election why they should vote for you.
This is the same party who went into panic mode after the EB sent out a few flyers, you really dont think much of you’re supporteres do you?
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Hi Nick. As I am not in the process of catching a fly, you may notice my tongue is firmly in my cheek. Our supporters are just amazing. Do you have any?
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Actions speak louder then words frog. Also note that the national party has around 50,000 members (although i dont claim they are my supporters).
November 24th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
On the subject of the 40,000 heading to Aussie, I was watching Business Breakfast this morning. They seem to be trying to pin it on low wages and high taxes (Baldy tried to say so) but have to concede lifestyle…This is businesses big failure as (for instance), you look at a place like Queenstown and you can see it is a mess. The goal of each person to achieve maximum profit from his unit of land and building has resulted in a dense visual jungle, devoid of sufficient space or garden areas, and filled with noisy cars. It is business (the hollow men) who pushed thousands of new immigrants on us in the guise that we needed skills to “grow the economy” without reference to any game plan such as competitive advantage.
As they see it the future is “about ambition and income“.
November 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
jh, it isnt exactly a socialist paradise in Aussie either. You accuse bussinesses of failing to provide for the lifestyle needs of kiwi’s, and say that is the main reason they are moving to Aussie. Obviously the Australian bussinesses are doing something right to atract so many kiwis for lifestyle reasons. Perhaps New Zealands capitalists are just inferior to those of Australia?
November 24th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
The upside of a permanent drought is that you can gaurantee the weather will be ideal for a picnic or bbq, months in advance. In this country you can’t gaurantee good weather even a few hours in advance. Me thinks those 40,000 people are the sort of fickle shallow people we would be better off without.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
>Kevyn Says:
>November 24th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
>The upside of a permanent drought is that you can gaurantee the weather will be ideal for a picnic or bbq, months in advance.
I’m sure the people of Darfur will be jumping up and down with glee about this.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Nick C Says:
November 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
“Obviously the Australian bussinesses are doing something right to atract so many kiwis for lifestyle reasons. Perhaps New Zealands capitalists are just inferior to those of Australia?”
From what I remember research is saying that it isn’t just the money but lifestyle. The lifestyle in NZ used to be tops now it is so so.
Australia is doing better than NZ due partly to a commodities boom (mining)
November 27th, 2007 at 12:39 am
kahikatea, Darfur isn’t in Australia. And 40,000 New Zealander’s aren’t moving to Darfur each year either. My point was that it’s not simply lower taxes and higher wages that attract kiwis to oz, the stable warm dry weather has always been part of the attraction.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:43 am
ps, the drought and its ever increasing water restrictions will probably send those 40,000 scurrying back in a few years.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
>Kevyn Says:
>November 27th, 2007 at 12:39 am
>kahikatea, Darfur isn’t in Australia. And 40,000 New Zealander’s aren’t moving to Darfur each year either
I know Darfur isn’t in Australia. I was just trying to point out how petty an advantage like that can be in comparison to other things, and that it is connected with things like water shortages and crop failures which are a much bigger issue, and who cares about being able to plan a barbecue months in advance when you haven’t got enough water to last that long. And I see from your most recent post that you’re thinking along the same lines.