ABC's Vote Compass (as in, which direction should you vote in the election?)

[Evman]

http://www.abc.net.au/votecompass/

Pretty awesome, I highly recommend everyone give it a crack. Turns out my values stick me more with the Greens than Libs or Labor, but that's not to say I agree with them on everything (especially nuclear).

Most people taking it get surprised by the results (including me). It's been up for about a week and has had over 560,000 responses so far.

[SimonR32]

I could have made that a lot easier with a few very simple questions... haha

Regardless good survey and pointed me in the same place I'm voting and everyone should be voting.

On the greens, I now think no one should vote for them. Even my mother who is one step off a tree loving hippy (a Biology teacher to boot) who has always voted Green has now admitted that when they finally got voted in they totally fucked up and she won't be voting for them again.

[Fukushima]

http://www.imgur.com/oU3vsC2.png

Aligned with all three parties within 4% of each other, thanks for nothing vote compass :P

As for the greens, they can get fucked

[POH73]

Regardless good survey and pointed me in the same place I'm voting and everyone should be voting.


Same for me, reaffirmed my position. Everyone should do it based on individual questions not vote xxxx because my dad voted, my grandfather voted and his father before him all voted for them.

[TJ]

Ill vote for whoever stops the boats!

Taking ma land!

[Autopilot]

I'm voting for the pants party.

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/3731230720/hEE6BE082/

[Macca]

landed directly on the axis......

[thommo]

pretty much the same, in the middle

[Joe]

I landed pretty much bang on with the Liberal coalition.

That's because I'm not a greenie do gooding oxygen stealing fuck, like the rest of you pingpingpingpings.

[Joe]

I would love to see the correlation between 3 types of data.

1. Result based on survey
2. Individuals voting preference
3. Level of education

I hypothesise a correlation that suggests the lower the level of education, the more of a disparity there would be between actual results of survey and voting preference.

Why do I think this is? Because of a phenomenon called "group think". Those who are less educated and are therefore not as equipped to make logical decisions would simply side with the beliefs of their mates, work colleagues, etc, as well as previous family voting history, rather than coming up with their own reasoning as to why they might assimilate with one party or another.

There are also demographic factors at play. If an area is heavily biased towards one demographic, whether it be racial, religious or otherwise, group think kicks in.

The above phenomenon is what I believe causes many of the "safe seats" to be held by one party or another for long periods of time.

[Evman]

^ Pretty much why I reckon Barnett got back in. Liberals look after the economy.

"Political Landscape" put me in with Labor (who I'm leaning towards) but said I agreed more with the Greens policies, just. The Greens are far too narrow minded overall to be in any position of power IMO.

[racegtst]

Exactly were I thought I would be.

[S85FI]

Ill vote for whoever stops the boats!

Taking ma land!
TJ,
unfortunately we instigated most of the boat arrivals. Have a look at the countries they are coming from and then look at the conflict zones. If AU didnt ask for secure forward operating bases, interpreters and peoole to do general duties for the coalition then they wouldnt be coming here. What would you do if you were in a hot spot and were there by chance? And the taliban etc. Just said they would kill you and your family if your found out to help?

Think back to Bosnia, the same happened there. We had an influx of refugees. Samalia too. .

Its the flip side of being an allied country.

[SircatmaN]

What this survey needs to also tell you is the percentage of times each party has successfully got through legislation they have promised and not done the complete opposite once elected.

[Miggy]

I got greens, labour a close second and liberals way behind but I'm sure if i was in a managerial position and not construction it would of been a different story.

[mr_rotary]

I am almost smack on the Libs!

[SimonR32]

Mullmas is easy to please, gave one of the worst prime ministers in history (so much so his own party kicked him out) 6.5 out of 10

[Fukushima]

I'm from Queensland, we like Kevin despite logic. I've said before Malcolm > Kevin > Abbott > Julia, but I won't be voting based on the leader.

I think the biggest issue with this vote compass is it doesn't take into account who you think can actually put their plans into place. And no, passing legislation and spending money is not the same as actually getting things done.

In 2007 Labor said they were spending 500 million on eHealth. Six years later what do we have to show for it?

[YOUR MATE]

TJ,
unfortunately we instigated most of the boat arrivals. Have a look at the countries they are coming from and then look at the conflict zones. If AU didnt ask for secure forward operating bases, interpreters and peoole to do general duties for the coalition then they wouldnt be coming here. What would you do if you were in a hot spot and were there by chance? And the taliban etc. Just said they would kill you and your family if your found out to help?

Think back to Bosnia, the same happened there. We had an influx of refugees. Samalia too. .

Its the flip side of being an allied country.

http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1337/53/1337530849050.jpg

Not so much to do with the fact there is a fuck tonne of unwatched coastlines? The close proximity to nothern neighbours making passage shorter? I think you'll find people are fleeing those countries whether they help allied forces or not because they live in a fucking warzone. Australia is the place to be, apparently. People can get NZ citizenship a whole lot easier. But they only do it so as to come here straight after.

[TJ]

Haha I was not being serious.

I am not a xenophobic racist - hell I even use the word nigga all the time.

But a lot of rednecks will vote based off that.

[DRKWRX]

think he missed the italics lol shit there is 50thousand new zealanders coming here every year and no one says a thing.

[huggy_b]

Pretty middle, leaning towards liberals

[Damo 69]

LOL at greens & labour being good for people in construction.

[SimonR32]

I am not a xenophobic racist - hell I even use the word nigga all the time.

http://data.whicdn.com/images/48908325/SpongeBob-says-fuck-logic_large.jpg

[ED40]

Pretty middle, leaning towards liberals
Same, but with greens a bit higher up than I thought...

[Miggy]

LOL at greens & labour being good for people in construction.

Yeah LOL I love the unions getting pushed out losing my entitlements that we had and losing my job to 457 visa workers who are willing to work for less.

5 hi!

[ho57ile]

I want fast internet. Don't give a fuck about immigration or boat people.

[Damo 69]

Yeah LOL I love the unions getting pushed out losing my entitlements that we had and losing my job to 457 visa workers who are willing to work for less.

5 hi!

dey terk our jewbs

yes labour will be good for the workers in construction, not good for the overall construction market, we will have less people being paid more money, and greens will price all O&G / Mining projects out of Australia

it will be glorious times for our economy.

[urabus]

Yeah LOL I love the unions getting pushed out losing my entitlements that we had and losing my job to 457 visa workers who are willing to work for less.

5 hi!

At present imho the unions have to much power. Have you read the eba for F.S.H? I am effectively not allowed to drug test any staff. You could walk into the project manager's office for brookfield multiplex and light up a crack pipe in front of him and you can not be fired if you say 'you are willing to get help for your problem'.

A guy that sits in a lift reading porn magazines and pushing buttons takes home over $2000 / week for working a 48 hour week.

Dont get me wrong, there are some shit employers out there that need to be controlled but the unions (whilst being ably assisted by the the labor government) have taken things too far.

One good thing about the unions i will say is if you can prove an employee stole so much as a stringline from site they will walk him out for you.

Brendon

[cplagz]

LOL, weighted results.... my circle is pretty much on top of LNP. Unweighted I'm a right wing capitalist.

[schnoods]

On top of the Liberal Party.

Hopefully better times if they come through.

[crabman]

Extreme right wing economic, dead centre social. Now to find the minority party that suits me. Thanks vote compass, helped me heaps.

[Dagon]

Why do I think this is? Because of a phenomenon called "group think". Isn't it great that we have certain words and phrases that automatically mean you can safely disregard the rest of the post?

Regardless, the idea of the compass is bloody stupid unless it includes the other parties as well.
Fuck voting for one of the big two/three... that's the same as throwing your vote away.

[d1mitch]

dead smack on the liberal party for me, weighted and unweighted

[Dagon]

I want fast internet. Don't give a fuck about immigration or boat people.Home 'net speed ain't so bad. It'd be nice to stream 1080p rather than waiting 24hours. But meh, I spend 4hrs a day at home and 10+ hrs a day at work.... I'm sick to fucking death of waiting 45seconds for a 10kb file to download from some random fucking server in another country but still under the umbrella of the company network.

Fuck immigrants*, give me fibre to the everywhere and let me work from home.

*especially those israelis, yum

[SimonR32]

The only thing I really differed to Liberal policy was wanting to be a republic.

[Nugs]

Slightly closer to the center than LNP. All I really want from government is for them to do as little as possible so they have less chances to fuck things up.

[volt_bite]

ALP 64% / 65
GReens 63% /62
LNP 51% /51

unweighted/weighted
haha

[Chivalry]

To be honest the only question I really paid attention to was "In your opinion, how trustworthy are the following party leaders?". My results were about what I expected and very similar to volt_bite's.

Had a laugh when I saw that you could put 'Broadband' as the most important issue to you in the election haha!

[RMCprime]

It annoys me that people would even need this vote compass to help them decide. I get frustrated that people go around saying they don't care about politics then when a party wins government they complain for the next 3yrs that shit isn't going the way they want.

[Nugs]

This might be more useful. A very simple view of what the candidates for your electorate have promised so far.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/federal-election/candidate-promises

[Evman]

It annoys me that people would even need this vote compass to help them decide. I get frustrated that people go around saying they don't care about politics then when a party wins government they complain for the next 3yrs that shit isn't going the way they want.

You can barely trust any party regardless. At least vote compass gives a quick-and-dirty understanding of party policies for those that are fed up with the bullshit in general. Howard said he wouldn't bring in GST, he did. Julia said she wouldn't bring in carbon tax, she did. Abbott said he would bring it in, now he's saying he'll scrap it. Politics in this country is a joke on the best days, all most can do is look at the policies offered (quick and easy = vote compass) and decide from that. All the policies will get thrown out the window after the election anyway.

Besides, most are just saying that it's landing them where they expect to vote anyway, so it's acting more as a confirmation than a lesson.

[KPWISHN]

L/NP unweighted 73% and weighted 68%
ALP unweighted 41% and weighted 35%
GRN unweighted 19% and weighted 17%

Pretty much spot on where I would have expected. Pretty good survey really.

[Buckets]

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Largely as I expected.

In reality I'll be voting Liberal and hoping the Green's get utterly arseholed this election !

[crabman]

Howard said he wouldn't bring in GST, he did. Julia said she wouldn't bring in carbon tax, she did..

Howard took it to an election, if Gillard did the same we wouldn't be huffing and puffing over the stupid thing.

[Dagon]

RTR FM had an interview with Julian Assange last night.
http://www.rtrfm.com.au/restream/?show=indymedia&date=2013-08-19

Nothing showstopping... until he mentioned the bit about the WA Wikileaks party (nothing to do with Assange) saying that their preferred vote deferrals will be for The Nationals rather than the expected Scott Ludlum Greens.
Hadn't heard about this mess. Indymedia described it has him being 'the man who handed the Australian Senate to Tony Abbott'.
Even after all this time I'd had so much hope that we wouldn't all this half-aborted monkey to be the country's leader... but this news terrifies me.

[TheChad]

If you read propperly you'll find that the National senator preferenced is looking at a 4-5% primary. So Wikileaks aren't really tipping anything over from that. Greens being second essentially puts them first, with a small nudge to wirrapanda. Not going to change anything in the long run. In typical wikileaks style they just don't want anyone to have all the power.