Australia at the moment has another 2 weeks of campaining to go for our federal election , unlike America with only 2 parties , we have numerous , the main ones who get to govern for 3 years are iether liberal or labour , then there are the greens and independants both the later held and had the balance of power in the last parliament, both gave their vote on bills to the labour government by aggrement ,but I dont expect them to do so well this time round.
Then there are the also run parties that get cash if they get a certain amount of votes , this is where it gets interesting as its not a matter of first past the post , we give preferences , which mean if I vote for one party I also have to tick the voting slip of who I would give my preference too.
Both the house of representative with half of the senate up for re election , the senate has a term of six years the house 3 years .
She has been queer this last six years , first Mr Rudd was voted in as prime minister for the labour party , then he became unpopular with all this climate change things going on and according to his own party became a dictator, a party room meeting was called and he was deposed on a vote and Ms Gillard took over his job , She took us to the next election and it was a hung parliament , both parties asked the greens and independents for their support which labour won and took government with 3 votesover the liberals .
More drama ensured 26 months into her term Ms Gillard brought in a carbon tax , then made a few other bad decisions , lost the support of the people when her % of support went lower that the Liberal party , again a party room meeting was called, nominations for leader were asked for with Mr Rudd standing again and he won easily .
At the moment Mr Abbott of the liberal party is ahead on preferences , so only 2 weeks for Mr Rudd to improve things