FEDERAL Labor leader Anthony Albanese has pulled the race card as he fights efforts to introduce voter ID laws.
Labor and The Greens – who carry the unofficial motto Vote early & vote often – are set to oppose the Morrison government’s efforts to clean up election rorts.
- Federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese uses race card to denounce moves to close known voter fraud loophole.
- Greens call voting rorts a "fictional problem dreamt up by extreme Right-wing fantasists".
With unions known to bus voters from booth to booth within marginal seats on election day, Mr Albanese is desperate to retain Labor’s election stealing loophole – and has resorted to identity politics as cover.
He accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday of “ramming through” a bill to stop some Australians voting.
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“This is a desperate attempt to undermine our strong democracy and deny Australians their basic democratic rights,” Mr Albanese said.
“The fact is, Mr Morrison has stolen an Indigenous voice to parliament.
“Now he wants to take away their voice in the ballot box,” Mr Albanese said.
“This is a cynical move to minimise the number of Indigenous Australians who get the vote.
“This is ugly, divisive legislation and I urge Australians to use the ballot box to tell this divisive man his time is up.”
Greens deputy leader Larissa Waters described the laws as “pure politics” designed to fix a fictional problem “dreamt up in the fevered imaginations of the most extreme Right-wing fantasists.”
Introducing the bill last week, Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor said the legislation would bring Australia into line with other democracies such as Canada and Sweden.
With Labor and The Greens staunchly against voter accountability, the government hopes to get its legislation through parliament with the support of the senate crossbench after Centre Alliance signalled it was generally supportive of the plan.
The Prime Minister defended the bill, declaring that it was “not an earth-shattering proposal” and was a “standard practice in liberal democracies” around the world.
The proposed bill includes safeguards that still allow those who are unable to produce ID to vote provided that their identity can be verified by someone else, or if they provide their date of birth and a signature.PC
The Italian citizen by birthright, the admissions, the applications to stand for election …
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2017/12/anthony-albanese-told-the-abcs-730-program-a-lot-more-about-his-family-than-hes-disclosed-on-his-cit.html?cid=6a0177444b0c2e970d01b8d2c471d8970c#comment-6a0177444b0c2e970d01b8d2c471d8970c
The two reforms I would like to see are and end to compulsory voting and proportional representation.
The first because it dilutes the political discussion and distorts results. With an end to compulsion politicians would have to actually engage with the voters, make them work for our vote, enthuse us with their policies and plans. Instead of which we have the same tired rubbish pretending to be new and exciting. With an end to compulsion a pathetic turnout would give the politicians a true gauge of how much people actually don’t care bout them. The second may have been a good idea at the time but has shown to be yet another pawn in the ongoing backroom sleaze of Australian politics. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, to rig elections.
Apparently there was a scientific experiment conducted in the 1960’s, in which two parts ill-informed moron were added to three parts garrulous ill-bred bogan.
The outcome was Anthony Albanese, and, as will be appreciated, the experiment is considered to have been an abject failure (except by the Labor party, of course, since they know nothing of science or any other discipline).
Laberals like vax ID2020 but NOT voter ID. Perhaps the vax casualties might still like to vote after they pass?
I wait to see my late family members at their favourite polling booths every election day. That’s when we have our living and late family members reunion. It’s a very special day for us and given that ballots are secret I don’t need to see their Labor-Greens vote. When one passes over their voting habits change. They become much more ‘progressive’ in the afterlife. The more agile of my more recently departed relatives somehow make it more than just the one voting booth during voting hours. They seem to prefer marginal electorates. It’s a truly special family gathering day for us each election.
Regards,
Brett
Of course Graeme Richardson said once, vote early vote often. It was said the Rookwood Cemetery cast more votes than some of the suburbs around that cemetery.