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All Micro parties (barring the Liberal Democrats - I LOVE me some libertarian action) have pretty bullshit excuses for policies. However if they are smart they can use their position to effectively bargain for small concessions that enable the community to make the first few steps forward it needs. If they go in gangbusters demanding everything and trying to bend the majors over a barrel we will be marginalised and the Libs will find a way to work around us rather than through us. The role of a micro party/independent in the senate isn't to direct the flow of policy but to facilitate it by carefully aligning yourself with one of the majors in exchange for the initial ground work you want being laid down. The AMEP has one, tenuous chance to do this right. We f**k it up and all we have is a clown in a suit making noise and being unable to effect change as he has been marginalised in the media and in the senate. We don't have the position the Greens did with a block of 10 seats holding sway over the senate. The libs only need some of the independants/micro's, not all of them.

"Miley Cyrus spanked the ass of a twerking midget on live TV in Germany" is a factual sentence describing real events.

He hadn't locked down or scrubbed his social media accounts before going to the polls. All the major media outlets now are having a field day with it. His list of favourite videos on YouTube is cringeworthy, he (as stated) has posted video of himself throwing shit at mates, his comments on facebook and twitter are beyond terrible (seriously, the dude thinks that George Bush was responsible for the Sept 11 attacks). The guy comes across as clueless, uneducated and a total buffoon. This is the guy representing the community in national politics. I'd have thought the people they had chosen would have at least been smart enough to scrub their social media accounts before hand and who would have been prepared in some way for the massive media shit storm that is now in his lap. All that was needed was a simple statement expressing who he was, what he believes in and how he plans on taking the fight to the Capital. Instead he, and Keith Littler, are ducking the media and being reactionary instead of proactive and actually promoting the right sort of messages. Here's an idea, the first BIG ticket items coming up for debate are the Carbon Tax, Education Reform, parental leave entitlements and asylum seekers. How about we put the media on alert that we are willing to sit down and negotiate with the major parties in a realistic manner? That we stand for basic Australian principles of letting people have a fair go and helping each other out? And that we will use this position to inform our decision making. And then steer the message in a way that actually benefits the car community - carbon tax, will support it being scrapped if the EPA is redirected to battle serious polluters instead of harassing car drivers. At the same time ask for concessions on the Luxury Car Tax or possibly rebates on fuel efficient, diesel and electric/hybrid vehicles. Fair go for families, makes owning fuel efficient cars more realistic for more people, gets the EPA out of the communities hair in states that need it. Education reform - get concessions for greater funding for driver training, possibly starting in high school, into the budget in exchange for support. Doesn't have to be huge, just a small pilot program for now. Parental leave - actually, I won't go there. I LIKE the coalitions idea, many people don't... Give the media something, ANYTHING. Stonewalling now is the single worst thing that could be done. I'm not expecting seasoned bureaucrats or lawyers with decades of experience or similar to be AMEP candidates, just not someone this bad.

Oh good son of rajab. Did some digging into the new senator for the AMEP. Bad is an understatement. My guess? Unless he gets some VERY good aides and handlers he will do more harm than good.

Unless something drastic has changed only Vic. The first link I had was Vic as well. Was just adding second confirmation from a different source. ABC and Fairfax calling the 6th senate seat for Victoria for the AMEP. That seems like a lock

Fairfax news sources are calling the Senate seat in Vic for the AEMP as well

My new solar trickle system is great! I've been driving a bit more often this month and the battery holds charge beautifully as opposed to before where after 5 days of inaction it was not liking turning over and after 2 weeks it was f**ked

Even been through a defect check? Even in a clean car like mine it is a right pain in the ass and a MASSIVE waste of time.

If you are willing to drive a moving target, have at it. Personally I feel stuff like this should be for show cars only.

Would only happen if they could engineer a way to ensure that the left can be seen as unreasonable to ensure a public backlash. Otherwise it would be political suicide for whoever causes it. Only automatic trigger would be a failure to pass supply bills. That HAS to be passed, any other bill can be put on the back burner until the coalition could secure senate passage.

If I'm reading it right I'd expect the AMEP and Australian Sports Party to hold the balance of power. LNP hold 33 seats, Labor/Greens/DLP hold 36, 7 minors. I'd expect Xenophon to go left, Palmer x2, Liberal Democrats and Family First to go right. Makes it 37-37. Last two seats belong to AMEP and Australian Sports Party...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/results/senate/vic/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/results/senate/vic/ Read into that what you will boys and girls.

He did his job. I honestly don't think he was expected to win the election, just try and stop the hemorrhaging.

I thought that was the LS1. Decent ploke apart from his love of pushrods

Or get Dan to build your engine... I'd say sponsored work goes to the back unless it will have immediate impact on future business, e.g. a sponsored car shits a bearing right before major event. This is bad as visibility is important so it'd go up the queue, otherwise it'd be dead last IMO

Whatever order makes them the most money the fastest?

Random occurrence could be a spike in the numbers for other reason. Needs to be a prolonged increase to have validity.

I remember going to EFI/ERD last year just before powercruise. Let's just say insanity was an understatement. They were BURIED under work.

+1 Chris Rogers. He is THE guy to talk to. He's done plenty of work for myself and many other club members.

And as for does it work, it will need a decade or so to start to reverse trends in birth rates.

Ah, but there is a direct inverse correlation between income and number of kids. And the research suggests it's higher income earners who put it off or have fewer kids for financial considerations. Yes they can afford the time off but they are less willing to give up the income than a lower income worker is.

Some people are gone no matter what. However there is lots of research that shows that significant numbers of women are not having kids or having fewer because of the effects of lost income. Remove this and more women will have kids or have more kids.

And if you think current austerity measures suck imagine how bad it will be if we don't shore up the tax base by 2050 when it is estimated that there will be less than 2 people working for every one person who isn't. How the f**k do we pay for government expenditure funded less than two thirds of the population? For comparison it was roughly 26:1 work:non working in the 60's and is currently around 7:1