What are some little known political factoids about your country?

What are some little known political factoids about your country?

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1. Queensland used to have a state upper house but no longer does.

It was entirely appointed by the governor and a labour government in the mid 1900's voted the house out of existence by enough ALP members who would then push legislation through the assembly to eliminate itself

2. since ~1910 every state government has been either labour or liberal apart from Bjelke-Petersens country party in Queensland

3. West Australia successfully voted to secede in the 1940's but was blocked by westminster

Abolished slavery in the mainland. In fucking 1315.

#3 kinda surprised me. How do you think that would have affected ww2 for australia?

Very interesting. Why is that? I don't really hear about slaves in europe before that or after, really. was that necessary?

Honestly huge ramifications. WA was quite poor at the time, if we'd no defence agreement with Australia we'd could've very well been eaten alive by the Japanese. I say this however with the disclaimer that we don't know how a land invasion would work out in Australia since it only happened once and that was mainly just Europeans rolling over technologically inferior aborigines. It could be the case that its almost impossible to capture most of Western Australia given its just a hot Siberia for the most part.

Also ANZUS treaty would've worked out differently which would be a big deal for all of Australia's history since then.

WA gets milked pretty hard for cash because of its resources. They are permanently pissed coz they have been paying for neets in Tasmania and elsewhere in the east for 100 years. It would be in the 100s of billions of dollars in wealth transfer.

Not at all. WA Bros would have gone with everyone else

left is conservative

right is liberal

centrist is a milionaire

our so called ,,ultra nationalist" party is financed from russian embassy

French people have long been very attached to the idea of individual freedom. King named Louis le Hutin thought that serfdom was some hot bullshit and just went ahead and abolished it. His edict says that "according to the right of nature, everybody must be born franc (old-timey way of saying free which you can still find in words like "affranchi" meaning liberated)". It further dictates that "none is a servant in France" and that "the soil of France frees the servant that touches it". Meaning any slave that somehow managed to make it to the french coast was automatically freed upon touching ground.

The jews must've hated him.

Poor WA. do they still feel the same today? for the most part I mean.

I live in Midwest WA in Australia in the Durack electorate.

>>(Copied from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Durack)

At 1,629,858 km2 (64 per cent of the landmass of Western Australia), Durack is the largest electorate in Australia by land area, the largest constituency in the world that practices compulsory voting, and the second largest single-member electorate in the world after Nunavut in Canada.[4] Although physically similar in size to Mexico, the electorate has only 300 settlements.[5]

WA is huge, but it has a relatively low population, hence the GST raping of the locals, like 60-80% in every GST dollar going over east.

Also, Perth, the capital of WA is either the 1st or 2nd most remote city in the world.

>151729873
WA unironically tried to separate from the feds this year over the GST fiasco.

Ho and France was also the first country to ban slavery in ALL its territories, in 1794. Napoleon briefly reinstated it in the colonies but still.

Liberal party debated secession at this years part conference. There's been renewed discussion since the GST issue explained here

our parliamentary representatives are actually not Australian or even human beings

how does the general pop of slovakia feel about re joining a country it was previously apart of?

Napoleon had control of some colonies? huh. How do modern french feel about him? is he a hitler or a George washington to them?

Women only gained the right to vote in 1949. The left was against, because they would all vote for the Catholic Party since females back then were the carriers of the faith

>Do the French think their national hero is hitler?

at least you guys held out as long as you did without being an islamic country.

Used to being shat on by the other states constantly. Prevailing attitude among most in the Midwest is kind of like the old school Texan/Rural Anglo sentiment.

Our Gov isn't as bad as yours (corruption/shill) wise, but that's not a benchmark we want to aim for. Too many two faced limpdicked politicians

>Napoleon had control of some colonies?
You have heard of Louisiana, right? Cause Napoleon is the guy you bought it from. Modern french mostly like him. He is certainly never compared to Hitler except as part of a "tiny angry dictator" meme that originated as brit war propaganda. He is most often used as symbol by nationalist idiots who don't realise he loved Islam and incorporated elements of Shariah in the Code Civil. Rights of women actually regressed when he wrote it.

How would I know how they view him? I could just google it but thats no fun.

The average term length of the last four Prime Ministers has been one year and 11 months. The last Prime Minister to serve a full term was John Howard who lost office a decade ago in 2007.

The primary argument over the founding of the US Constitution was whether or not the common person should actually have a vote. The "Founding Fathers" of America were actually terrified by the idea. Most of America's founders were elitists who were much more educated than the average commoner. You must think back to the American wilderness era when a lot of this land was unexplored. The common folk tended to have very poor education: Think hillbilly farmer x 9000.

1.Secretly co-operated with Germany in WW2
2.Had our own "concentration camps"

>there are almost no libertarians and most of the population hates capitalism and wants the state to solve all of their issues
>our nationalists take incredible pride in how we aren't racist as a country, even more so than the liberals
>our nationalists hate 90% of european nations for some reason, yet consider niggers, sandniggers and spics their "anti-imperialist brothers".
>there is a weird similarity between commies and nationalists who officially hate eachother, but both hate capitalism more
>the "nationalists" tend to be completely degenerate hoodrats
>it's the right who can't meme(not that the left is much better)
>even right-wingers consider quoting marx completely legitimate and worship the ussr since they "freed us from nazis", so they must be good
just fucking end it all, communism destroyed everything left good with this country anyway

>Used to being shat on by the other states constantly
remindes me of how the republican states feel about democratic states

Pathetic isn't it. Malcom Turncoat's time is nigh now.

I actually think Turnbull will last the full term. There just isn't anyone to replace him.

>Napoleon is the guy you bought it from
only a little ironic since louisiana was a slave state and is highly populated by blacks today because of it.

how can one bring any change if they cant even get a solid 4 years? even that is hard for the more capable people.

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I wonder if they felt the same way about the people fighting for them in the military.

based.

Italy has the highest IQ of Europe. And WE WUZ ROMANZ.

In 1990 the Finnish secret police Supo obtained a list of 18 Finnish individuals (called the Tiitinen list after the head of Finnish secret police at the time) suspected of having spied for the East German secret police Stasi. The importance of the list has been belittled in public by claiming that the people were simply "of interest" to Stasi, and not actual spies. The officials also claim that no-one of importance is on the list. Yet for some mysterious reason the list will only become public in 2050. Some expect the former Finnish president Tarja Halonen to be on the list.

Previous Prime Minister in Australia taking part in the testosterone boosting onion pill

Term lengths in Australia are actually 3 years, but you're right. Politics here is heavily driven by opinion polls, so parties tend to throw out their leader if they're behind in the polls for too long.

Nevermind. I guess thats why no one is talking about you guys when talks of austro hungary get brought up again.

wow I didn't know that Slovakia is Bulgaria

"Louisiana" back then was actually a huge territory going all the way up to the modern Canada border. You guys created 13 states out of it : North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, half of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma Arkansas aaaand... Lousiana. And a little bit of Texas. America basically purchased the midwest from us.

yeah - the consensus has been broken too. Australia will decline rapidly over the next few years. Our political class are completely incompetent and the usual institutions that kept them under raps are deeply compromised. RIP OZ.

Fuck off taig scum.

Julie Bishop is an unironic candidate. Met her personally and talked without camera's, she's no coward. More balls than Malcolm or Tony.

we once had a party so based that it got banned
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach_and_Kahane_Chai

Not really, when resource prices are booming they pay more in tax than they receive and they start whinging about secession but for most of the time since federation they have been net recipients of tax

but dumb as a rock with no charisma or vision.

TLDR, what was their gameplan?

Julie Bishop represented asbestos companies when they were being sued by miners. She's an even bigger dud than Peter Dutton.

Every Arab inside Israel is to be offered the right of residence as a non-citizen. All non-Jews will have total personal rights, and no national ones. Those who refuse the offer, and agree to leave quickly and peacefully, will receive compensation for their property, with 10% taken off and placed in a special fund for Sephardic Jews who left property behind in Arab countries and were never compensated.
Until then, every Israeli Arab from the age of 18 will serve three years of manual labor, plus yearly manual duty as part of the reserves. The National Insurance Institute, which pays monthly checks for every Arab child until the age of 18, will be transferred to the Jewish Agency, and payment made only to Jews.
An automatic death penalty shall be in force for every Arab terrorist caught.

Bulgarian inventions:
>the Pill
>the Cyrilic Alphabet
>the FIRST AIR-TO-SURFACE BOMB (the x-tail is a feature we came up with)
>the airbag
>the digital computer

A five-day-week of work will be introduced throughout the country, with Shabbat and Sunday being full days of rest. Sunday will be a day for freedom of entertainment, sport, and general pleasure, while the Shabbat will be a day of spiritual rest with no public desecration of the day.
A free economy will be put into force, with regulations and licenses cut to a minimum, and the bureaucracy cut to the bone. Taxes will be cut, and capital investment welcome. Worker-participation in factories will be encouraged. The Histadrut will be limited to being a union only, and will have to sell off its holdings. Only free enterprise that brings in foreign investment, and that encourages domestic capitalism and incentive, will allow Israel to escape its position as a beggar basket-case.
Minimum wages will be raised to high levels, and underemployment compensation limited only to those who are incapable of working or can prove that they have not been able to find work. Jewish labor will be advocated.
The huge amounts of budgetary funds that go to the Arab sector will be diverted to the needs of the Jewish underprivileged in the urban neighborhoods and the development towns.[35]

On her own, she comes across like Barnaby, Pauline, Jackie or Bob Katter no bull. most Libs and Labs are held on a leash thats all

Goddamnit you guys. How are we going to win against the muslims if you won't stop your damn rivalry bs.

A total re-organization of Jewish education in Israel shall be undertaken, including schools, the army, and state news media. All schools in Israel will be given a basic curriculum in Judaism and Jewish national pride. Parents who do not wish this can organize their own private schools, but with no government funding.
Foreign affairs[edit]
The Aliyah Department shall be re-organized, with all emissaries recalled and a new system implemented under which a shaliach (emissary) sent to a foreign country will be one who himself came from this country.
A special unit to deal properly with Jew-haters outside of Israel who threaten Jews there will be set up. There will be no sanctuary for murderers of Jews, Israelis or not.
A special office to deal with the suffering Jews outside of Israel (Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, etc.) will coordinate non-stop protests and pressures throughout the world.
Political, cultural, social, and all non-economic ties with Germany and Austria will be ended. We will expect the Germans to continue fully their obligations to Israel and victims of German atrocities. The Germans owe us reparations for property, and we owe them nothing. The money does not absolve them of one sin, of one crime, of one murder.
The humiliation of United Nations defamation and degradation of Israel will be put to an end with Israel's withdrawal

Picture related

I don't believe this.

>The Border Commission
Randomly drew a line through ulster, caused some problems, you may have heard.
>Gun running Prime Minister (Taoiseach = "War Leader" in english)
Haughey, Blaney and Boland caught supplying Northerner Catholics with guns to defend themselves
>Halal Beef
We have shit loads of cows, but few can afford steaks. Huge Halal slaughterhouse in the West of Erin, with a vast majority being
sent to Arabia (The Gun runner Haughey done this deal)
>USSL
County Limerick applied to join the USSR, but got no reply.
>Child Murder Cover up by local Politician (longest missing person in ireland)
unv.is/irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/mary-boyle-s-disappearance-and-the-40-year-fob-off-1.2637996
>Pat Finucane
Just joogle it
>The Battle of the Boyne
Happened a hundred miles away in Limerick, the "Battle" in the Boyne valley (beside the oldest Pyramids in Europe) was just a slaughter
(still Nigels proudest achievement on this island, constantly marching about with satanic symbols) (pic related)
Williams horse was black,but they depict it as white with a sword above its head (like a unicorn)
4 men armed with 1 handgun ran across the river, dragged the English Field Marshall off his horse and shot him
120 Clare Dragoons held a bridge to help (actual) refugees to escape. This was to cover the Retreat to Limerick.
We fucking hammered them in Limerick, but of course, british history books stop right after the "Battle of the Boyne"

didn't know that :(
OK were fucked then I'm out :D

Immediate annexation of every part of Israel that is in our hands, and unlimited settlement for Jews everywhere in that area.
Sovereignty from the Temple Mount shall be taken from the Moslems, and given to the Rabbinate. Jews will have unlimited access to those areas of the Temple Mount that are permitted entry by halakha, and a synagogue will be built immediately.
Every young couple will be offered a dunam of free land to build a home with minimum mortgage. This will encourage young couples to leave the cities, and also to live in an environment of air and land, rather than cramped into tiny apartments in high-rise buildings.

The Army shall be given a free hand to shoot when it feels necessary at any attacker, including stone-throwers. The entire village of any terrorist, including stone-throwers, shall be expelled from the country.
Every soldier during his three years of basic army service will learn a manual trade, and will be given an opportunity, while in the army, to spend much of his last year at home working in that trade.
All women will be exempt from army service, but will be compelled to do national service in their neighborhoods and come home every night.
A separate large army base shall be set up in which Haredi Jews will do their army service. Any full-time yeshiva student who does absolutely nothing else will be exempt. The many thousands of part-time yeshiva students will be doing army service at the special base.
Press[edit]
Freedom of the press will be strictly enforced, with obligations. All correspondents and papers will be held to strict and truthful reporting of events, and no boycott of events will be allowed.
Religion[edit]
A Jew will be defined only as one born to a Jewish mother or converted according to authentic halakha.
Non-Orthodox temples and rabbis will be allowed freedom to practice in Israel, but the use of the word "rav" will not be allowed ("rabbi" may be used), and no such place may use the word Beit Knesset ("temple" or "center" may be used).
Re-organization of the religious courts will take place to insure the choice of dayanim (judges) on merit, and to insist that procedures for divorces be streamlined and hurried.
People of other faiths will be given total freedom to pray and worship and observe as they see fit, but never, ever to proselytize.
Intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles will be forbidden by law; respect for the Gentile will be demanded, but that will not include sharing his or her bed.[34]

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Bishop is scum. She routinely forced cases to run longer and longer in the hopes that the plaintiff would die from asbestos-related illnesses and their claim would lapse.

why would fins betray themselves to the USSR? I thought that fins hated them as much as the Germans

Sounds fair :)

tl;dr fugg arabs and fugg not being traditionlist and fugg gommies

that is one of the worst forms of government I have ever heard. Still rather live there than canada though.

Clearly high IQ doesn't translate into national stability

Interracial marriage was illegal in my state until 1967

yeah but the numerator/denominator is not relevant in that graph- thus it does not validate your point. We are not talking about all taxes redistributed, we are talking about the relative distribution. i.e. are they a net payer or net receiver? if so by how much?

A "factoid" is something is something that isn't true.

This I actually knew.

Contrary to popular belief, the President of the United States has very little power outside the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

The President serves as Chief of State and Commander-in-Chief of our military.

The President has the power to sign or veto legislation passed by the Legislative Branch of government. He/she may also appoint a justice of the Judicial Branch. Nothing more.

The Executive Branch of the US Federal Government and the President's office was established to uphold the rule of law by Article Two of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otzma_Yehudit
this would be the closest politically to that party that exists now

I don't believe this either.

If only all the genuine fair dinkum pollies like Pauline and Katter weren't nutjobs.. :(

Alamaba? (Is Alabama a state?)

little known by cucknadians, but our country was founded almost exclusively by Scots (with catholic Frenchies - les filles du roi particulierement)..

little known to the outside world - only one province of Canada is officially bilingual and it is New Brunswick.

A lot of commies were shocked and heartbroken when the Soviet Union dissolved.

Sounds good as long as you're jewish

Im shocked an heartbroken that any fins were commies.

we genocided jews and chucked unruly shitalians into caverns

WA doesn't exist today, nothing to see there, nothing happens, nobody cares.

>the digital computer
nice try but we all know that america invented that.

in Finland? I don't believe it. You were the front line heros against the god damn commies.

Capital punishment existed up until 1977 and the guillotine was still being used
Last man executed was a mudslime

was the last time the guillotne used 1977?

>3. West Australia successfully voted to secede in the 1940's but was blocked by westminster

I didn't even know this

Fuck the british

Now add Tasmania, Victoria and NSW

SA and QLD are screwed in their GST distribution as well

not vibrant and hip enough 4 ya ya flammin melbournian?

Accurate.
And that New Zealand shit had just won the by-election.
New England area should be nuked.

America invented Eugenics.

forced sterilisation of hobos and blacks if I remember from "Stuff you should know"

fuck alberto

Also, Quebec voted to stay in Canada by a vote of less than 51% against slightly more than 50%. The Quebeckers (frenchies) blamed the immigrants for losing the vote, and have hated them after since.

Lesson for Catalan - the more immigrants you let in, the less likely you will get an independence vote.

Yep, it was pretty overwhelming as well. The only region to vote against the motion was primarily composed of immigrants from the eastern states.

t.Alberto barbarosa

The
>oh fuck my head isn't going to be attached to my body anymore, face
Brutal

sandniggers dont mix with potatoniggers thus they dont care