How is being against gay marriage anti-liberal? Firstly, there is no established right for same sex to marry anyway and secondly, if you knew anything about coalition politics, you would understand about their need to respect convention and traditional institutions.

As for poker, well I'm convinced that it is all a storm in a teacup. For those that are making a big deal about it, well they are just bringing it to the attention of the liberals to enforce rather than doing something constructive to prevent it.

dont blame me i voted for wikileaks

agree with iliketurles, but lets face it... both options are atrocious here.

You're getting your definitions of liberal and what liberals stand for a little mixed up. Also, if you are right wing then there are far more right wing parties then the liberal party out there.

Tony I'm from Sydney, I stay at the crown melb sometimes, I won't see your chat as I have all my stars tables minimized unless you post a blind

Abbott in a landslide apparently?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/0...98603320130907

No mention of online poker in the acceptance speech so so far so good

Thank fk this farce of an election is over.

no prob sir, hehe ah nice, i get excited when i see good cash regs from aus, add me on skype if u likely same sn.



and gg us :S

Voted for Tone and had an even money bet on the result when the other idiot could have got triple money+ with a bookie.

I'm a winR yay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieReTfE9d-E how I feel about Australian politics atm

Well done South Aussies possibly two anti-gambling crusaders for the coalition to horse trade with instead of 1:

Abbot is PM, online poker is well and truly still alive and THRIVING.

Nick Xenophon will be in a balance of power position in the Senate from July 2014. Expect him advocating for the enforcement of the IGA from then (he'll advocate before then, but get far more traction from the middle of next year).

On the plus side there will be a Libertarian Senator from SA (Liberal Democratic Party), and the Motoring Enthusiast party in Vic which claims to be against nanny state type laws.

Ahh the pre UIGEA approach that worked so well in the US.

I am surprised there is not more concern. This is their policy, it is not a typo

http://www.liberal.org.au/helping-problem-gamblers

I know it may come as a shock but sometimes politicians do as they say they will, especially when they can clamp down on "illegal" poker to justify their ending mandatory pre commitment for pokies.

True, but I feel as if online poker is not a priority at the moment for the Abbott government.

Sucks, aus is a good location for poker.

The Australian Senate is kind of odd in that there's a long "lame duck period", with new Senators taking office in July 2014. So Labor + Greens have a majority until then.

Going to be an interesting term coming up, the senate looks like it quite possibly could be harder to work with for Abbott than the lower house was for Gillard. There are a lot of minor parties, some of which have no known platform on almost anything. What does the Liberal Democratic party stand for? How about Motoring Enthusiasts party (who got 0.5% of the first preference vote but gets a senate seat due to back room preference swap deals)?

Fair treatment for road users.
I voted for this party myself (being a motoring enthusiast). If you have an old school car that's modified, or a newer car that's modified, OR a vehicle that is considered to be a sports vehicle, you may find yourself getting treated poorly by the police on the roads.

My boss used to own a Corvette himself, and would get pulled over by VicPol every time he took it out (only drove it on the weekends) without fail. That was 10 years ago, not much has changed now. These days there's more and more car meets (done legally) that are targeted by police. A Downshift meet (held in Queensland at a fairgrounds that was hired) was recently targeted by the police, with defect stations set up outside the venue. Video linked below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZfun86c8o

What can be seen there in a few frames of footage are "every day normal cars" getting rolled through the defect stations, while vehicles that people care for are pulled over, targeted, slapped with defects and fines, and sent on their way.
Many car enthusiasts over the years have been defected for ridiculous reasons. One notorious police officer has previously popped the bonnet of many cars, shaken the battery around until it wobbles, then slapped the vehicle with a defect notice for having a "loose battery".

On top of this, AMEP also wants to fight draconian anti-hoon laws. They are anti-hooning, but they don't believe impounding a car is going to stop people from doing illegal acts on the roads. If you've spent a little bit of time hanging outside in a poor-ish suburb between 11:00pm and 3:00am, you'd notice that there are still many people doing burnouts despite the presence of tough hoon laws. If the hoon laws worked people wouldn't do burnouts, but that isn't the case.

What AMEP fights for is something I could seriously rave on for for hours. To sum it up though, AMEP fights for...

- Equality amongst all motor users.
- Less red tape regarding vehicle modifications.
- Less police presence in sanctioned events where no laws are broken.
- Less support regarding nanny-state laws.

Would the lesser support for nanny-state laws include one regarding online poker? To be honest, I have no clue at all. I bet you could get a question answered by asking on their facebook page though, which they are actively using.

The thing is these are all state issues and have absolutely zilch to do with federal law making. Just noticed the Sports party won a seat in WA with 0.2% of the first preference vote.

Soon to be Senator Ricky Muir of the Australian Motor Enthusiasts Party is definitely an interesting unit.

Not only does he like his cars, according to his youtube channel he loves his booze, dacking people and flinging kangaroo **** at his mates. Oh, apparently he also believes that 9/11 was a US government conspiracy.

This man could be our last hope

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-pol...909-2tf8j.html

I'd rather have someone who knew how to have a good time running my country than half of the nitwits who sit in parliament pretending they know how Australian people operate.

Good ****ing grief.

Looks like he will be best buddies with this guy who was seemingly elected because people can't read.

Chances are they will both be against enforcement of the IGA i guess: we have the loonies on our team!

something seriously needs to be fixed with senate voting imo. How can morons like Ricky Muir and Hussain Sheiknad 1 thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy and the other whats to change australian law into islam law.