In-Play Betting & the next Federal Election ...

yes.... my vote comes fairly cheaply but i'd vote for the purples second and third also if they ban corps from banning.

The best chance to get the law changed, is for Abbott to win with a majority in the Senate. That puts the Greens and the Independants out of the frame.

The lobbyists from the Tabs and Bookies, will then get to work, and we should see a change within Abbott's first term.

That wasn't anything to do with my question Castrion.

If the Greens were to support in-play betting on sports in this country, would that alone be enough for you to vote Green at the next Federal Election?

That is never going to happen, TQ.

Much easier for the lobbyists, to deal with the Liberal Party. They have been doing it successfully, for a hundred years.

If it did happen, would you vote Green?

Are you saying, if they supported Gillard on the vote now, would I vote them at the next election, or would I vote for them, if they went to the next election with it as part of their policy ?

if they went to the next election with it as part of their policy ?

It is an important issue for me as I like to bet on cricket inplay.

So I would consider it, but probably unlikely.

Sorry, I can't be more decisive.

That's okay Castrian.

I don't know if you know how the Greens work, but the politicians are only the figureheads of the membership. It's the membership that decides the policies.

If the right argument can be put forward I don't think it's an impossibility.

It'd influence me to vote for them, Labor looks to have lost the plot but the mad monk and his monastic mob doesn't look a particulatly attractive alternative.

The voting day's too* far away to say "yes I would"

Woe, surrounded by "best of a bad bunch" choices.

(*Now that is my nightmare grammer bit, damned if I really know when to use "to" or "too")

too ... is like "also" or "as well"

and it's correct in your sentence above too.

If they promoised me 10,000 a week, to be a bikini waxer for australies next supermodel show.
I couldn't compromise my ethics that much, but it would be tempting

Then, hitching up my tutu, I should reply too, saying it was awfully good of you to explain the grammar in your two replies.

Ta 

don't bother correcting mine, I'm an idiot and unteachable

im prepared to relocate to the gold coast and work as a fluffer on any movie sets. I'd accept a hundred and sixty a year, moisture bonuses and any govt. incentive .. ation attached to pfizer riser consumption. C'mon mister rabbit you know it would keep me out of your work for a feed programs.

Greens are by far the most anti gambling party. Heard their spokesman say gamblers should be drugged to take away the thrill of backing a winner.

How is that answering my question Jibba Jabba?

I'm a punter/trader, I love it and I'd hate to not have it in my life, and I'm a member of the Greens.

Abbott said that every computer is a casino.....in play has zero hope of passing his 'NO' TEST.

Sorry.My answer would be yes but I price that happening at a million to one

Sorry also CG.....my answer is no, if as you said the vote was based on that policy alone.

That's not to say I wouldn't vote for them anyway.

"Greens are by far the most anti gambling party. Heard their spokesman say gamblers should be drugged to take away the thrill of backing a winner." Jibba Jabba


I up for it!!!

You guys will compromise your values pretty cheaply. I would not change my vote just because I want in play and the greens might give me that.
There are too many reason not to vote greens.

CG trying on a mini poll??

I vote Greens these days anyway, would be a yes for me.

Hate Gillard, didn't earn it. Australia's worst ever PM, what an absolute joke!

CG, I ask you a few questions

what % chance are we of getting inplay prior to the end of this year?
what % chance are we of getting inplay next year?
what % chance are we of getting inplay in a coalition govt?

The best chance of it happening, is for Abbott to win, with a majority in the Senate.

The gambling lobbyists will be knocking on his door, the day after the election.

Take little notice of what the Liberal Party is saying now. They automatically take the contrary view of Government.

I wouldn't vote Greens since they're no chance of winning my seat, and they're hippies anyway. All that matters is that Gillard gets voted out (which she will) and some of the damage she's inflicted can be reversed (which is unlikely). Hopefully then we'll see some movement on the in-play front, but it's been "12 months away" from a law change" for the past 5 years.

Castiron - Labor supports giving in-play a go, Abbott has said no (is anyone surprised???) it would be a pretty clear backflip on his part to support it so pretty unlikely imo

The only way it would get through is if Labor and The Greens back it - unlikely but as TQ says, the membership of The Greens decide the policies so if a good enough argument can be made it is some chance

womble

I believe Abbott will change his mind on many things, once he is elected. The Libs are not doing this for any moralistic reason.

Remember this is a party that still accepts donations from the tobacco industry.

The experts tell us the mining boom is on the slide. What did we make of it.
School halls
Insulwool
National Broad band


Our future lost , by an incompemtant, souless rangger and a word smith

what did we make from the last boom Barney - what long lasting legacy did Howard and Costello leave from the "rivers of gold"???

Castiron - are you saying Abbott just said no for short term political gain

Mind you, I don't agree - I think he actually believes every computer is a mini casino or whatever it was he said

what long lasting legacy did Howard and Costello leave from the "rivers of gold"???


they left 10's of billions for Kevo and Juliar to blow

they actually gave most of it away in bonuses and the like, including your fav - the baby bonus

Every computer is a mini casino
and a vehicle for kiddie porn
and way to spread the lords word
and conspiricies
and a library
and a classroom
a market place

it is what ever you want it to be !!

The baby bonus, was a generation late.

I could have shared the depths of my abundant and glorious gene pool, to lovies at a handsome stud fee.

There woud be no doctor shortage, and 100's of gold medals at London

The SA Trots would never be the same again