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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
For some totally non-election related discussion: what is your preferred style of bed? I'm seeing a lot of fabric covered bed heads around, and I really don't like that idea from a cleaning/hygiene perspective.
I'm looking at a dark stained wood frame bed, a fairly minimal design with raised legs and no footboard. My current bed is nearly 30 years old, the options have changed considerably since then.
I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.
The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.
One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.
I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.
The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.
When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.
I stupidly only numbered 5 instead of 6 above the line in the Senate. Is my vote counted?
Even if I numbered 6, I risked exhausting my vote since I did not number Lab or Lib anywhere. One really should number as many as possible.
