I Vote YES!

Australians voted this past Saturday. Here it is required to vote; you have to if you are over 18. The funny part is that a lot of the people I’ve met here don’t seem to care at all about it. It’s kind of funny; everyone living here loves their country... they just don’t care about their politics. It ended up that this is the first hung parliament in 80 years. And now I’m hearing a lot more about it all. I’m trying to follow everything, but it is really hard to understand. There is the labor party, which is the working class (in my head I compare it to democrat), then there is the liberal party (which is confusing because this party is the conservative one), they also have the green party (this is a minor party that cares a lot for the environment)!


I went to vote with Jamie, everything was really relaxed. It was at the school where I’m teaching & there were some student bands there playing dressed in their uniforms! There was also food being sold & some people were there just hanging out. When Jamie went in to vote, I was very hesitant & a bit uncomfortable. I kept asking him if I should stay outside the gym while he went into vote, but he was really relaxed and was kinda laughing at me, which I didn’t understand because in the US I don’t think it would be allowed. Well we got to the door & he said I was American and asked the woman if I could come in with him & she was more than willing to let me. When we got to the sign in area the woman who signed Jamie in was originally from the US and seemed very happy I was there! She took Jamie’s name, gave him the voting sheet and that was it, he wasn’t ID’d or anything. Voting is very different here (just as the many other things I’ve told you all about), you number the order you want your votes to be in rather than just choosing one.. I could try and explain it better, but I’d rather not get a headache.

Tehee :)

PS – I vote YES! to Australian hairdos!