> It is illegal not to vote in Australian elections, if your name is on the
> electoral role and is not crossed off at the election then you get fined.
> Someone tried to publicise some way of making a stand against the compulsory
> voting without the possibility of getting fined - they got fined
I lived in Poland up to the end of high school. We did have citizenship education,
but nobody took it seriously - that was the class we used to play games under the
table or do homework for other classes. It was pretty boring, too.
I'm not sure how true that really is, but it seems to me that
Yes, Sue Ellen, voting is compulsory in Australia. When you go to the polling
place, your name is taken, and marked off on an electoral list. After the
election, the names of those who voted are checked against the master roll, and
if you haven't voted, you get a letter asking you to explain why
First let me say I have no time for any politician of any party/country. I
think they're all only interested in their own advancement.
It's not compulsory to vote in the UK, but I've always thought how fortunate
we were to be able to vote when so many in the world can't, so I've always
voted - up
It is illegal not to vote in Australian elections, if your name is on the
electoral role and is not crossed off at the election then you get fined.
Someone tried to publicise some way of making a stand against the compulsory
voting without the possibility of getting fined - they got fined for doin
I am taking part in some classes and salons on the philosopher-citizen as a decision
maker and it came up that citizenship is a concept in flux: that it has different
meanings in other states or countries and that it was taught so very differently in
the past.
I would love to hear from all of
