Australia up next: Federal election tomorrow

[EricHiggin]

Pemalite said:
There is always room for improvement.

But I have always been happy with things Australia got right like Universal Healthcare, Voting and Gun Control.

As long as it works for you guys down under, then all the power to ya.

Our water spins the opposite direction, so we'd be bound to have to adjust something to make it work...

Pemalite said:

Some people never mature.
I would trust some 18 year olds over some 50 years olds.

Sure, there are always exceptions, but would you trust a minority to Govern the Country? There are more older, mature, wiser people than there are young. Could always have another test for say, 18-21, where the minority who can pass it can vote earlier than the min age, of 21 lets say.

Pemalite said:

I don't think we as nations are that far a part, we are both Commonwealth nations with strong European ties, history and ideals.

But where we tend to be a little different is that culturally Canada is more Americanized, where Australia is more British... Canada trades far more heavily (Or used to) with the USA, where Australia doesn't need the USA as we trade with China and Asia.

New Zealand to Australia is probably what Canada is to the USA I guess.

Maybe our Youth here needs to grow up pretty quick as everything tries to kill us the day we are born, it's truly chaos, death and carnage.

We're still similar, but Canada is more Americanized than most realize. It's part of the reason why some Canadians went so crazy as to the whole 51st thing. There's enough truth to it that it really rubbed them the wrong way because we're integrated enough that we're partially joined at the hip, so what America does, we're almost always tied to, to some degree.

Our youth, much like American youth, have been taught for generations now, not how to deal with issues and problems, but how to tattle and run away from everything. Heck, when running away became a problem because they were running into hard edged corners, our society decided we should start rounding and/or padding all those corners.