Voting at the ole highschool...

Yesterday was Federal Election 2010, the nation voted on account of the Prime Minister changing hands within the government party recently, with no input of the people.

The change over was from Kevin Rudd, a man who always seemed slimy to me, so I personally was glad to see him go......to his deputy, Julia Gillard, seeing our countries first ever female prime minister , which would have been exciting stuff had she been elected by the people!  Julia is not only female, but also unmarried and non-religious....all firsts for the leader of our nation.

We started our day with a visit to a local children's market, where we found some good bargains, including a groovy tie for JackJack to wear to his aunty's upcoming wedding.

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The weather was gorgeous and the boys enjoyed a romp around the footy oval...

Playing chasy....

JackJack was all decked out in his Saints gear, it was game day ;)

We got to go to my old high school to vote, as they were hosting a polling station, I was excited to see it, 11yrs down the track.....

I took great joy in saying "no thanks" to the Liberal and Labor party papers, but Tyler took them, and as you can see above, he's one of these voters that takes it all very seriously, not!

Making Tony Abbott(Liberal leader) and Julia Gillard(Labor leader) kiss, lol

Then, reading over the Liberal candidates policies, Tyler contemplates whether no.2 means he'd put all the chicks in our low socio-economic estate on the pill!

I asked him who he was voting for and he said he was going to hold the paper up and see who Jack points too...hmm and that is why you, dear hubby, have lost your right to complain about the results!!

Just as we were saying how long the line looked and wondered about a wait, looky who walked up to join the line..... My parents!! So, we let the one dude behind us go in front and joined them and chatted the wait away ;)

Us waiting in line....we had about a half hour wait, easily.

The volunteer line keeper actually passed Dad a note to hand to the name checkers, looking like it was to mark time of how long it took him to get to the front.  They only had 2 name checkers, so although there were 8 booths, only 2 people at a time managed to vote...some people passing us on their way out said they'd waited over an hour

The polling was set up in our old VCE Centre.  I was telling Tyler and my parents that many a memory was flooding back of lunch times and recess spent sitting on those brick garden beds with school friends, including a time that 2 particularly giggly girls confessed that they'd scored themselves a joint and were gonna smoke it....I got the pleasure of their hilariously funny stoned phone call that night! Agh, the memories ;)

The Greens didn't actually have anyone handing their papers out, which Tyler reckoned it's coz they're shit, but I reasoned it's their way of saving paper....if you wanted it you take it, not just automatically handed to you ;)

As the line shortened and we entered the building, I wondered if it was in fact a common room for the seniors at all anymore.  The top half that used to be partitioned into 2 offices and a classroom, divided by a hallway, was now only one office and the rest of it open.

Science lab tables are now installed down the side of the large room.

Another view of the building.... As you can see, a classroom worth of tables and chairs are stacked up, maybe it's back to being a class room?  Before it was a vce common room, it was the drama room, earlier in my high school years.

Finally, time to vote!!

My first time giving my vote to who I always wanted to vote for, believing in the past what others say about it being a waisted vote.

 I used to vote for Bruce Billson, but with his idiot leader having a dot point party policy of "Stop the boats", I didn't want to be a part of such stupid racism

Looky here Mum....another moment in your life your daughter has captured on camera for ya! lol  Add that to your police breathalyzer shot ;)

Back of the school looks much the same.....

Thought my sister would be interested to see this, it's out on the lawn next to what was the main entrance of the vce centre.  This is a girl from my sisters school year, who lost her life to meningococcal when it first broke out here.

The office entrance....gained a stage looking step and a different colour(?) since our day

And of course, I had to get a pic of my own car in the school car park!!

I was 17yo in yr12, so never got to drive to school.

Parked at the end of A wing, and it's had a mural make-over

The mural looks like it's about literature, which always was the classes taken in there

So, after many boring hours of telly last night, it seems as it stands that we have a hung parliament.  This means there is not yet a clear party winner.  Every last vote needs to be checked and negotiations between the main party leaders and the independents elected, to come to an agreement of who will run the country.

Agh, all you damn donkey voters and blind voters......

On a positive.... Greens won a seat in Melbourne!!

The latest news for our electorate of Dunkley, as at today at 15.45.....

Primary Count

ALP 38.7%

Greens 11.6%

Lib 47.1%

Progressive Count After Preferences

Lib 50.7%

ALP 49.3%

I think that that is a great result for the Greens, it may appear small, but then compare it to when our nation got the GST....that's 10%, it seemed small, but it bites at the check-out ;)

And finally, a nice little factoid I found on the Dunkley page.....

"Dunkley was first created when the Parliament was expanded in 1984 and is named after Louisa Dunkley, an early campaigner for equal pay for women and a founder of the Victorian Women's Post and Telegraph Association."