Wed, Mar. 14th, 2018 08:49 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
Three days out from the state election and I've finally looked up my local candidates. I don't want to vote for any of them. I have a Liberal, a Labor (the two major parties), an SA Best (the Threat Party), a Green and an independent with the most hipster beard you ever did see.

I can't stand Labor, who break things, fix them with a Band-aid then brag about the Band-aid (case in point: the state-wide blackout, after which they bought the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere and bragged about it. YOU'VE BEEN IN POWER FOR SIXTEEN YEARS. HOW DID YOU LET IT BREAK IN THE FIRST PLACE? Also the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, which at $2.5+ billion is the most expensive building in the southern hemisphere and yet it still has ramping for hours and hours in Emergency) and holy shit you'd think our state was just rolling in it, the way they spend money. We're not.

Liberal has some good ideas, like sending the train network out north, where the land is flat and y'know, not the Hills, but dear god they're weak as piss. The eastern states already walk all over us and don't think anything west of themselves exists, and I don't reckon the current leader has the guts to pull anything out of them. If Isobel Redmond was still there, then yes, but Marshall's just a wet rag. Also my candidate, and also the candidate for the electorate bordering mine, don't seem to know their electoral boundaries. I've had three years of Sam Duluk advertising at me, with calendars and fridge magnets and newsletters and the whole bit, and then suddenly two weeks ago I got a flyer from Steve... something... like who the shit are you? Oh you're my Liberal candidate? Where the shit have you been the past three years, and why's Sam Duluk posting his face everywhere? I physically can't vote for him because I'm not in his electorate. So I mean. Care factor from the dude seems to be quite low.

SA Best... frig I don't know. Nobody knows. Nick Xenophon, sure, know exactly what he's about. But my local candidate? Mitcham councillor, which automatically makes me sour, because Mitcham Council doesn't give a shit about the Hills part of their council. Also Googling her seems to come up with headlines like "being sued for defamation" and "reported for catch-up at home" so that really instils trust.

Greens are just idealists who have no idea how to actually implement any of their policies.

I don't even know what Dan Golding's plan is. He just has a Facebook with photos of himself putting letters in letterboxes.

That's it, those are my choices. I mean. I haven't felt this disillusioned since the Federal election, where I also didn't want to vote for anyone running. Sigh. They're all giving me reasons not to vote for them, but nobody's given me any compelling reasons to vote them in.

Thu, Jul. 7th, 2016 07:59 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
I love barramundi. It's the most forgiving fish to cook. Perfect crispy skin every time, takes a little longer to cook so there's no chance of overcooking it, brilliant with a squeeze of lemon and a sprig of thyme. I don't get it often because dollars, but damn it's worth it.


Who knew this would be timely again? Why won't she just go awaaaaaay? ._.

We still don't have a PM. But I mean, it took like a month in 2010, so who knows? Mum and Dad's previously almost-safest Liberal* seat in the country is now not-Liberal, which is a genuine shock. I mean, I knew Xenophon** was a threat in several seats, but for Mayo to be the one to fall? That's huge. And a lot of other seats have been close, too, which was totally expected. Grey may yet go to Xenophon, but I doubt it. Interstaters are saying things like 'come out of nowhere' which just further proves why he's done so well here. South Australia is ALWAYS the butt of jokes. In AFL, even though the Crows have been consistently threatening the top four, we hardly get talked about so by the end of the year Victorians will say we 'came out of nowhere'. Interstate players get looked at by the Crows or the Power, to which the interstaters say, 'yeah, but he'd have to live in Adelaide.' Y'know what fuck you.

Politics is no different. SA is constantly shunned by Eastern states run Government, especially, and this is important, with regard to the Murray River. Nobody in Government could give a rats about the Murray. Even when Gillard--a South Australian, from just down the hill from me in frigging Unley--became PM, she completely sold out and didn't do shit for SA. They still allow cotton farming and rice farming to go on in the Murray-Darling Basin. They don't enforce any water saving measures on upstream farmers. They don't use SA farmers as an example of this is how you farm without using so much frigging water. By the time the Murray, the biggest river in the country, finally reaches the sea? A lot of the time it isn't even flowing. BIGGEST RIVER IN THE CONTINENT. NOT FLOWING. Because of the dickheads upstream who don't care what happens to it after it crosses the SA border. It flows through Grey and Mayo before not-reaching the ocean.

When I say politicians don't care about what I care about? That's what I mean. My entire STATE gets shunned, regardless of who's in power. Neither Liberal nor Labor gives a shit about SA.

So along comes Xenophon, who's been a vocal (in SA) senator for decades. See he hasn't come out of nowhere, NSW =P He's so South Australian you can't believe it. He actually, genuinely cares what goes on here. And, now that the Libs have lost one of their safest seats to him, and both Liberal and Labor have seen other previously-safe seats become marginal, maybe, just maybe, they'll start paying attention to us. At least they might recognise why someone like Nick Xenophon is gathering so many votes, anyway.

(If you're wondering why it's taking so long, it's postal votes. We have compulsory voting, so anyone not within a reasonable distance of a polling booth on polling day lodges a postal vote, which will still be trickling in over the next week or so. And there are a lot of marginal seats where this'll make a difference. A party needs 76 seats to form Government, and the Libs right now have 73, I think? So everyone's staring at the remaining 10-ish marginal seats wondering what's going to happen. And by marginal I mean in Hindmarsh there's, like, 100 votes in it, with thousands of postal votes still to come in. So that's why it's taking so long.)





* Basically the conservative party

** Formerly independent senator, this year formed a party and started going for the House of Reps. His major thing is 'fighting for SA' and also anti-predatory gambling, so why he had candidates in other states I have no idea. Anyway, he was getting around 20% over here and barely 1% interstate. They are the Nick Xenophon Team. Frankly I think they missed an opportunity and secretly they all wish they'd called themselves the Xmen.

Sat, Jul. 2nd, 2016 06:04 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
BOUGHT PLANTS. Not all the plants, but a good portion of the plants. Cyclamens seem to be only available as individual plants rather than punnets of 4-6 plants, and they're like $6 each, so I'll hold out and get them later. I did get six from the 'save me' table so they were only $4 each. Also all the ferns, so many gorgeous ferns and pretty leafy things. Photos tomorrow when the sun comes up.

VOTED. Woo, democratic responsibility fulfilled, Australia's biggest sausage sizzle participated in, and $10 donated to my local CFS. Senate voting sucked balls this time around. I mean, at least our senate paper isn't as insanely long as NSW, but it still creeps up the sides of the ballot box. I swear it was smaller than last election, tho, so that was nice. It's always in the past just been number 1 in the box of your party of choice, then fold it up 20 times and you're done, so I've only ever searched for my party of choice, stuck in the 1 and buggered off. This time it's a number from 1-6 deal, so I had to look at all of them.

'Okay 1, 2...... now what? Frigging.... 3 for Marriage Equality Party I guess? 4 for..... Voluntary Euthanasia Party.................... Bloody 5, 6, THERE I'M GOING HOME.'

I just didn't want any of them, and strongly disagreed with most of the how to vote card. Family First can suck my non-existent balls (by 'Family First' they think man + woman = parents and that's it), nobody with the word 'Christian' in their name should have anything to do with politics, Shooting and Fishing Party want to abolish the gun laws that came in after the Port Arthur massacre on the grounds that they haven't made a difference (HAH), and everyone else sucks on various grounds and nobody cares enough about what I want so stuff 'em all, basically.

I'm just so disillusioned with Australian politics lately.

On the plus side, I have plants. YAY GREEN.

Fri, Feb. 25th, 2011 06:33 pm
annarti: (three seconds and I pop a cap in y0 ass)
I'm so over natural disasters. Victorian bushfires year before last, Christchurch earthquake last September, Queensland floods in December then the worst ones in January, followed up by Cyclone Yasi, bushfires around Perth, another earthquake in Christchurch...

I'm sick of single events having death tolls well into the hundreds, sick of entire cities, entire STATES, almost, being wiped out in one go.

You've had your fun, Nature, now fuck off and leave my hemisphere alone.

Labor rant, don't mind me )

edit~ Oh, and the locust plague. I forgot to mention that one.

Thu, Jun. 24th, 2010 06:32 pm
annarti: (squee!)
So, we have a new PM. Don't really care, didn't vote for Krudd and sure as hell not voting for her, either :D With any luck, she'll be the shortest-serving PM in Australian history.

In other, more exciting news, Colin's birthday was yesterday, so I took him out to lunch. Huuuuuge bowl of Vietnamese soup, very noice X9 Followed by duck Windy Point style for dinner, homg. So delicious. I love my Mum <3

Also~ I bought a terrabyte external hard drive, so I can put all my movies and tv shows on that now. This'll be my project for the evening, then over the weekend I might see about getting Windows 7 on this computer. I've got it on the laptop, and it's on the computers at work, so I may as well. Also gives me the excuse to get Adobe CS5 8D Mmm, tasty.

This comes because I got my first pay check this week :DDDDDD SO EXCITING. Going clothes shopping this weekend cos my winter wardrobe is seriously depleted. All but one pair of jeans have holes in them, as do various tops, undies and socks. And I only have two pairs of pjs left. So yes, mmm money.

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