Vote Nobody Next Federal Election

Federal elections are coming up and it's the same old joke as usual - a "choice" that isn't one! Instead of not voting, how about voting for Nobody?
You should vote for Nobody, because:
- Nobody keeps election promises.
- Nobody has all the answers.
- Nobody will represent you.
- Nobody will improve your community.
- Nobody has your best interests at heart.
- Nobody will make a real difference!
- A vote for Nobody is a vote for Everybody!
OK, seriously now...
People want things to change but when ask what they think will change it they ask for more of the same? If things are going to change then they're never going to change whilst people give validity and credibility to a totally flawed system.
It's not just about making a mockery of the farce that is "representative" democracy. It's also about producing more spoiled ballot papers with "Nobody" scrawled across them than the official winning candidate, thus undermining their "legitimacy" (as if they ever had any) to push the same old business-friendly, community-trashing policies that they always do, regardless of who gets in.
But whoever wins, ordinary people always lose! Nobody will change that, so vote for Nobody next Federal Election.
Written and authorized by the Ants…..
================================
So far I've managed to note that these things are missing in our so called "democracy." The democracy you may think you have doesn't exist in Australia today!!!
We are calling for an abundance of people who don't believe in the official truth, which is a MONSTER and a lie all the days of your life, to vote for Nobody.
So Just Vote for Nobody This Federal Election
You don't live in a democracy you live in a pseudo democracy. The democracy you have when you don't have a democracy. Which is a dictatorship!
You don't need a dictatorship! You're not a sheepy.
If John Howard and Kevin Rudd are a democracy then where is the Senate?
COAG is not a Senate! If every time you vote you get a Labor State or Territory and a Liberal Coalition National Govt then you live in a dictatorship.
By the way what would happen with COAG if one party ruled both the National and State and Territory affairs? DICTATORSHIP.
But if you consider that being a well-paid loser isn't a bad job and pays well then also consider the handshake between Lib/Lab that is a virtual one party.
For instance:
Where is the opposition to WAR?
Where is the opposition to WAR Crimes?
Where is the opposition to Draconian Laws?
Where is the opposition to Refugee Detainment?
Where is the opposition to David Hicks 5 year detention?
Where is the opposition to the AWB scandal?
Where is the opposition to Islamophobia?
Where is the opposition to Political Scapegoating?
Where is the opposition to Neo-Colonialism?
Where is the opposition to False Flag Operations by the CIA?
Where is the opposition to the FTA 'Investors Rights Agreement'?
Where is the opposition to HIV Discrimination?
Where is the opposition to the Privatisation of Health?
Where is the opposition to Desecrating and Ignoring Aboriginal Affairs?
Where is the opposition to subordinating Scientific and Medical Research?
Where is the opposition to No WorkChoices?
Where is the opposition to Social Services Reform?
Where is the opposition to Desperate and Disabled to Work?
Where is the opposition to 6 week Social Security Payments Cut Off's?
Where is the opposition to Work for the Dole instead of Getting Better Education and Skills for Better Employment Opportunities?
Where is the opposition to Rorting the Social Security System by Corporate Greed?
Related:
The Real Dole Bludgers
Unemployment figures scandal story ( longish)
On the surface it was not too bad an experience. I got a nice redundancy package and almost immediately was able to gain employment in the new privatised sector at a higher salary. Financially it was good. I was deemed to have performed so well for my first “provider” that, when they failed to get a renewal on their contract, I was able to get a new job that was effectively a promotion, managing one of the suburban outlets of my second. Nor, on paper at least, had I thus been promoted to the level of my incompetence (an ambition I eagerly look forward to fulfilling). I got good results in this role, was made “employee of the month” and won generous, tax-free bonuses.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142867.php
Scrap Growing Esteem
Say NO to cuts in education
In reality the university has decided to go down this road not because of the educational merits but for reasons of status and profit. In 2005, when the model was first proposed, the Vice Chancellor highlighted that over the past 25 years guaranteed federal funding has gone from 90% to 23% of university revenue. Therefore the university perceived two choices, continue to grow at the current rate or opt for a radical rethink.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143707.php
Mr Speaker!
For arguments sake let's say Lab just happened not to throw the election by coming up with say, an anti strike policy? Just Hypothetical of course?
Then say Lab wins! Yay! No?
At the next COAG meeting there is no real opposition to new Anti-Terror laws for opening your mouth more than five times in one day?
Labor agrees with Labor that that's okay now. No one argued at all!
Then on that basis Lab does what it wants?
So how does that work? Come on smarty I'm just stupid! Never went to school either!
Now I put it to you clearly as my proposition that in fact, Labor cannot Win on that basis because the Neo-Liberal Coalition would not allow it, for a start!
Who controls everything? They do!
The second point is that it wouldn't look right to the general public if and when a controversial issue come up.
What line of defence has either Lib or Lab come up with as a proposition to an event whereby one part ruled States, Territories, and the Central Gov't?
I rest my case!
Mr Speaker!
========================
What did I say!
=================
Business Council calls for COAG overhaul
The Business Council of Australia says the current Council of Australian Governments (COAG) model needs to be overhauled because it is [incapable of addressing important national issues.]
The BCA says the relation between the federal and state governments is one of five key areas that politicians should focus on reforming as part of their federal election promises.
The BCA's president Michael Chaney says an overhaul of COAG will help make any reforms more effective.
[THE LIES]
"We simply can't afford a system of federal state relations which meets only occasionally, this year just once for half a day, decides erratically and follows through irregularly," he said.
"Businesses have really stopped believing in the effectiveness of COAG as it currently stands." [LIES]
Mr Chaney says reforming state-federal relations is the key to progress in education, workplace relations and business regulation.
"Frankly if the states aren't prepared to make regulatory reform a priority issue, it makes sense of the Commonwealth to take over responsibility for business rules and regulations that are inefficient and inconsistent," he said.
"They've made life very costly and cumbersome for businesses operating in this country."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1899792.htm
COAG is only for PNAC Neo-Liberal Dictators! This is just a nonsense by the Business Council to say that under a Labor Gov't considering they have control of the STATES and TERRITORIES THAT COAG CAN'T WORK.
OF COURSE IT CAN'T WORK!
That's the real reason because it can't work if one party ruled the nation can it? DICTATORSHIP!
'Outraged' business council may fund IR ads
The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is considering funding its own advertising campaign to counter union commercials on industrial relations.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903536.htm
Unemployed to be offered jobs in defence forces
Employment service providers will be encouraged to work with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to help more people take on a military career.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143466_comment.php#143477
Time to go to war with your country?
Unemployed to be offered jobs in war forces. She says the scheme will provide opportunities to unemployed people who would not otherwise have considered a job in the ADF?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143481.php
HOUSING - A HUMAN RIGHT
The news that the French government has drafted a law to give everyone a legally enforceable right to housing should be of interest to the 100,000 homeless people in Australia.
http://www.melbourneunitarian.org.au/beacon/beacon200703
Youth homelessness inquiry head tells of 'crisis point'
A national inquiry into youth homelessness has been told an accommodation shortage is one of the main reasons the problem is getting worse.
It is estimated there are about 35,000 young homeless people in Australia and the number is rising.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1898291.htm
Democratic Lost Property?
These things are all missing in your so called "democracy" the democracy you think you have!
We are calling for an abundance of people who don't believe in the official truth, which is a MONSTER and a lie all the days of your life, to vote for Nobody.
If things are going to change then they're never going to change whilst people give validity and credibility to a totally flawed system.
That means you'll be looking at Lib/Lab until the day you die!
Bush (Custer) Last Stand In Iraq - War Drums in Washington
The majority of American citizens have the delusion that they actually decide who governs them, when in practice the Democrats and Republicans are only two wings of the same ruling class that owns Congress, just as it owns the land, the banks and big corporations, the newspapers, and radio and television companies.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139901.php
Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies
Just as communicating with the Feds about abandoning the way we live now is a futile process that only buttresses the legitimacy of old ways of thinking and living, continuing to vote within centralised political processes only reinforces their continuing relevance. Citizens who continue to reside within totalitarian-democracies can, at least partly, abandon them by not voting at elections that will never lead to abundance and a better way of living.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/113003.php
=========================================
War criminals need time, not a timetable: Community
Not only has Labor left the Iraqi's in the lurch by being complicit in the illegal and degrading act of aggression killing over 655,000 people in a holocaust but now they say, after the fact, that they won't leave the Iraqi's in the lurch. So why have we been left in the lurch?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142514.php
THE MONSTER
The MONSTER destroys itself, so why do we fight the MONSTER? Why not just build our own world? Think of cost benefit of our time, money and our investment in building a new world - opposed to trying to stop the MONSTER who is always right. I know! We might save some lives! Nah! The monster said… that those people had to die and they'll have to lock people up if they disagree. So we say… well lock us up then. And they do! Then they go off and continue to do the killing while people are locked up. Because that was the right thing to do - because they were just terrorists and you were just a wild animal that doesn't understand capitalism and the way the system works. I know! We'll stop the war in Iraq? But Afghanistan is okay so well just keep on building democracy over there?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142427.php
Lib/Lab Truth Scale TV
Yeah there was Johnny Howard lecturing about how the Liberals could lead NSW with a Peter Debnam's 'Let's fix NSW' campaign. But the way I see it they know how to 'fix it', all right! In more criminal ways than one. You just have to think like a war criminal and invite the spirits in for a chat about history...
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141967.php
THE POLITICS OF CRIME IN AUSTRALIA TODAY
How is it that Prime Minister John Howard can accuse other people of some crime or lies? No, you do not need to be clairvoyant or have any special supernatural talents to meet up with or to see one of the more see-through inhabitants of politics in Australia today. You just need a strong heart and an eager mind. While other people, who are being accused, belittled, tainted or desecrated by numerous criminal politicians and their media allies. Politicians who don't lead us by any form of example and who break their own morals, principals, values, and ethics. Politicians who break their own laws in order to deceive us and to suit their own political ends.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141552.php
Australia: The New 51st State
John Howard's servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair's and has earned him the nickname Bush's deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the country's freedoms
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141471.php
If you're waiting for Lib/Lab then you're just waiting for a catastrophe!
What about all the scapegoats the Howard government has produced for their war on terror/resources? Most, still languishing in isolated segregation prisons and still waiting to be heard. Rendition and torture of our citizens? 20 years for thought crimes? Jury asked to push on when they couldn't make up their mind? Rules of evidence and standards lowered in our local courts? 5 years in Guantanamo without trial or charge? Military style Kangaroo Courts, Control Orders? Detention Orders? Indefinite Detention? Then we have Australian citizens being held in detention and even being deported?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139474.php
Possible Torres Strait survivor sightings ignored, inquest hears
The coronial inquest into the sinking of an Immigration Department boat in 2005 in the Torres Strait, in far north Queensland, has heard survivors may have been spotted alive in the water during the rescue search.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1898834.htm
Rescue expert blasts efforts to find Immigration boat
One of Australia's top search and rescue experts has compiled a damning report about efforts to find an Immigration Department boat that went missing in the Torres Strait more than a year ago.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143792_comment.php#143831
US/Australia: Refugee Deal Trades in Human Lives
(New York, April 18, 2007) – A deal between the United States and Australia to trade refugees housed at Guantanamo Bay for those held on the island nation of Nauru upends international refugee standards, Human Rights Watch said today.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143799.php
Australian governments covered up 1975 execution of “Balibo Five” newsmen
A coronial inquest, due to resume in Sydney next month, has produced telling new evidence of a cover-up, orchestrated by every Australian government since 1975, of the facts surrounding the execution of five Australian-based newsmen in the lead-up to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/balib-a21.shtml
John Howard's Terror Tactics
Minister denies Adelaide using last 40 days of water
The South Australian Government says claims that Adelaide has only 40 days of water supply left are incorrect.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143857_comment.php#143878
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903562.htm
Anyone interested in war criminal John Howard's vision for 2020?
War criminal John Howard outlines vision for 2020?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143935_comment.php#143945
Australian government argues for mass detention power in “war on terror”
The solicitor-general specifically cited the September 2005 Council of Australian Governments communiqué, in which Prime Minister John Howard and the state and territory leaders declared: “A terrorist attack in Australia continue to be feasible and could occur.” The communiqué unveiled draconian new “counter-terrorism” laws, including control orders and “preventative detention”.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143981.php
Time to go to war with your country?
Unemployed to be offered jobs in war forces. She says the scheme will provide opportunities to unemployed people who would not otherwise have considered a job in the ADF?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143481.php
'X marks the spot': ICANW launch in Melbourne
The Australian branch of the International Campaign against Nuclear Weapons announced its official launch today at Parliament House in Melbourne...
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143939.php
- Analysis / Opinion
- Australia
- borders
- capitalism
- censorship
- climate
- corporate media
- corruption
- disability
- drugs
- economy
- education
- environment
- fascism
- government
- health
- housing
- human rights
- immigration
- imperialism
- indigenous
- middle east
- nuclear
- police
- prisons
- race
- religion
- war
- work
- workers rights
- youth













The Senate
I think it's important to vote for parties/independents other than Liberal/Labor in the upper house. A minority of representatives can mean the balance of power, which in some circumstances can stop some laws from passing.
Can you imagine the Liberal party getting a majority in both the lower AND upper house. Watch our rights get taken away at an increased speed. At least a psuedo-opposition would slow this process down, giving us a chance for some grass roots activism.
Of course, once we spend half an hour putting numbers in boxes, we should get straight back to working on projects which will empower our local communities, with the hope one day we can rise up like the Zapatistas did, and declare our localities autonomous and sovereign.
Nobody will change that
Recent NSW Election
Here a definite chain of command was in evidence: Socialist Alliance functioned as cheerleaders for the Greens, and the Greens supported Labor. Both organisations promoted illusions that Labor could be pressured at the ballot box, and that it represented a “lesser evil” to the Liberals. In line with this, the Greens concluded a preference deal with Labor’s state executive, while Socialist Alliance allocated first preferences to the Greens and second preferences to Labor.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50784
What we need is
10 Million Ants to admit the truth if they vote they just get more of the same. Labor will save you? Whoa no they won't! What then?
kinda
what we really need is 20 million people rejecting parliamentary democracy and capitalism, and consciously building a network of autonomous communities, based on collective, non-heirarchial decision making and action.
Yes I would have said 20 Million
But you have to be realistic the capitalist politicians all have friends including the jobs for the boys mobs and the corps who put them there so in reality you're never going to get them people to vote for NOBODY!
CHECK OUT THE UK CAMPAIGN BELOW
There is work to be done!
Autonomous communities
You have such lovely ideas Cam....if only they would work.
they do work.
Have you read about the Zapatistas in Chiapas? And the anarchist organisation of Spain during the civil war in 1936?
'participatory democracy'
Firstly, I do not see a single candidate I want to speak on behalf of me. Why should I 'participate' in a system which does not represent me?
Secondly, our only option to 'participate' is limited to once every three years or so. Ticking a box in secret is hardly 'participatory'.
Thirdly, if we DO 'participate' our voices are nothing, when the elected few make decisions which we have NO say whatsoever. For example, despite 90% opposition to Iraq invasion - our leaders took us there.
Stop putting fuel in a car that has no wheels.
Abstain.
Politicians
These politicians are only using us to legitimise themselves so that they can maintain a high income above everyone else! But they're going to give you nothing. This is similar to a GENERAL STRIKE. They don't get legitimised unless things change and the system becomes fair once again.
Think about it long and hard. Even if Labor got in nothing would change.
UK Vote Nobody! Campaign hits Cardiff city centre
Nobody represents you! The Welsh Vote Nobody campaign continued in Cardiff city centre today...
VOTE 1 NOBODY! WHY? BECAUSE NOBODY REPRESENTS YOU!
The South Wales Anarchists' campaign to 'Vote Nobody' in the upcoming Welsh Assembly elections on May 3rd continued today as a campaign and information stall was set up in Cardiff city centre's Queen Street.
Around 2000 Vote Nobody campaign leaflets were given out over a few hours, with the stall attracting a lot of interest and a good amount of positive responses (as well as healthy debate!).
A further 14,000 have been delivered door to door.
A PDF of the campaign leaflet can be found here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2007/04//367041.pdf
This isn't apathy, this is antipathy! Don't legitimise a government who doesn't really represent you: Vote Nobody and lets organise for ourselves!
V
e-mail: votenobody@riseup.net
Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/votenobody
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368401.html
Rio Tinto 'baffled' by Labor's IR proposals
The head of the mining giant Rio Tinto has criticised Labor's plans to scrap the Federal Government's industrial relations laws.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908835.htm
Labor's IR policy will create 'safety net': Gillard
Labor's industrial relations spokeswoman says the party's workplace policy will include new awards and employment standards.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908811.htm
Hockey refuses to release AWA data
Federal Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey says he will not release data that shows the effects of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) on employees because it does not give a fair picture.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908748.htm
Labor to unveil more IR policies at conference
The Federal Opposition is expected to reveal more details of its workplace policies today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908731.htm
Where is the opposition to No WorkChoices?