Vote early, vote often

It turns out we didn't need any identification whatsoever in order to vote yesterday. Just say who you are and where you last lived in Oz.

I couldn't believe it, when we rocked up to Australia House, they still had those annoying bastards who hand out party paraphernalia. You know the ones. You say no to a person handing out leaflets from the 'Christian Shooters' party and then the rest of them jump on you because you must be voting for their party. There were about 10 different ones, 9 of them were Labor and one lonely lady rooting for the Libs.

We then had to go into a little tent and have a wand metal detector run all over our bodies. Mine went off and he still let me go through without question. Seriously, what was the point of that exercise?

Inside Australia House, it is really decked out. So I sounded like a real derro, in my strine "geez, it's really posh!" No surprises, I wasn't the only one saying that or sounding like that either.

They still had those little cardboard booths and you could hear others laughing about the names of some of the parties.

In the end, it took all of about 5 minutes. Which was good, cause we thought it was going to be packed.

It just seemed funny going to vote all rugged up in our winter woolies.