And yes, I find their politics odious, but that’s not because they’re Christian. It’s because their politics is odious.

You’re a fool who’s jumping at shadows.

Personally, it depresses me when people throw away their vote, especially when it’s done for some futile reason (mate, numbering no boxes and scrawling `NO WAR IN IRAQ’ on the ballot for your local council elections is not going to end the war in Iraq), but ultimately, the Australian system as it stands seems fairest as it means everyone has equal access to voting, something that is not the case in say, the US and UK.

The fact is, you can choose not to vote in this country. You’ll just be fined for the privilege! Or, you can do an informal vote. Either way, you have a choice.

Here we have a person making known not bothered by the inconvenient of voting, rather then to address the issue that it is “embedded� in the Constitution that one does not have to enroll/vote! Just that this is being ignored by the High Court of Australia and others for too long.

For the record, I refused to vote in 2001 and the litigation is still ongoing about it. I refused to vote in 2004 and this too is before the Courts.
My constitutional right is not having to vote, and it simply has got nothing to do with inconvenience!
As a matter of fact each time I was standing as a candidate. Why should I have to vote for opponents?
What ought to be considered is also is that if unions were to use the same system in electing their officials then the political parties would be quick to complain. Let see if a candidate for a union were to have to get 50 nominations before being able to stand as a candidate! You see, Howard and his cronies, and so the ALP are ongoing about what is bad about unions but if we take an example how they cook the books, so to say, then unions can still learn a lesson or two in that regard.

If a union official was to misuse and abuse union members funds for perks as the politicians are doing then likely the government would pursue legal action against them. Political parties are unions also, so why not the same against them?

As author of INSPECTOR-RIKATI® books on certain constitutional and other legal issues, I probably have a better perception then most if not anyone else about voting. If you think I brag, then just read up what I write about.
Perhaps, we might make progress if we were to appoint judges to the High Court of Australia who are competent in constitutional provisions, not those who still don’t know what it is about.
I could device a test for any lawyer/judge in certain constitutional issues, that anyone of them will fail! Simply, they do not comprehend what constitutionally is applicable and a clear example is the nonsense about “citizenship� where they are really meaning “nationality�, but the judges do not even understand that constitutionally “citizenship� has got nothing to do with nationality, as citizenship is a State legislative power and naturalization is a Commonwealth legislative power and neither a State of a Federal Parliament has the powers to interfere with a natural born Australian!
The right to vote is born by being a State citizen, and this is what is being overlooked, in fact the States failed to make any legislation for this!