So what’s in the news.

In a few weeks time there will be an election, and so we now have to deal with adverts where each party degrade their opponents. Unfortunately it is a two party system with each Labour or Liberal/Nationals in power. I heard something about the system changing so that the minority parties will have a greater influence in government.

The way I see it which ever party holds government, not much will change. I wonder how many people that vote actually care about the elections, and how many people research what the parties’ views on everything are. I can’t be bothered reading lots of stuff about them to determine who to vote for. It’s actually the preferences that get a party through into power. When people vote for the Greens, or Democrats, or whoever else, these parties decide which of the two majors they support and give preference to.

It might be interesting to know what percentage of the population would vote in this county if it wasn’t compulsory. I probably wouldn’t vote. Really by making people vote it’s another way that the government can track people. Although they can track peoples movements through their mobile phones anyway, if they wanted to.

How far away are we to having this national ID card which records personal history, that is stored in a computer system somewhere in the world that can potentially be hacked into and have the information stolen. Medicare cards can sorta be used as an ID card.

The Telstra T3 shares are available now for shareholders to apply for with a first instalment of $2 a share. The current share price is just under $4 a share so they’ll probably decide that the final instalment will be another $2 a share whenever that will be. Hopefully the share price does go up again; otherwise we are wasting more money. Currently it’s still at a loss for those that purchased T2.