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Golly, Jeanette, I think I’m having an election!

By AndrewBoyd • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: Aussie Blogger, Life

Neerav Bhatt sent me an email today:

Hi Andrew

The Australian Federal election has been called for 24th November 2007.

Due to changes in electoral laws if people’s details on the electoral
roll are wrong they won’t be allowed to vote.

Please urge your Aussie blog readers to read this article
http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/enrol-and-register-to-vote-you-can-make-a-difference/

so they know how to fix their details and be able to vote.

I contacted you because I know that as a fellow top 100 Aussie blogger
(http://blogpond.com.au/top-100-australian-blogs-index/) you have a
large audience

Although I’m politically aligned (Greens candidate for Werriwa) I don’t
mind who you or your readers vote for, as long as people are not
deprived of their right to vote via sneaky legislation.

thanks


–

Neerav Bhatt

I wished (and wish) Neerav well with his candidacy. I haven’t always agreed with The Greens 100% but their hearts have been in the right place more often than not. What I would like to see, like Neerav, is that everyone gets the chance to vote whichever way they choose if they choose to do so.
Apart from that, I would like to encourage you to check your electoral enrollment status and if in doubt read Neerav’s advice.

AndrewBoyd is a consultant by day and blogger by night. He loves good food, good wine, and discussing faceted classification schemes with friends.
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8 Responses »

  1. Meg (33 comments.) on October 14th, 2007 at 6:34 pm:

    Hehe - love the title ;)

  2. Donna Maurer (3 comments.) on October 14th, 2007 at 7:43 pm:

    It’s such a nice, genuine email as well. Yay for Neerav for doing the right thing.

  3. AndrewBoyd on October 14th, 2007 at 9:03 pm:

    Hi Meg,

    I would like to take credit for the title, but it must go to the great Larry Pickering, for his classic political cartoon of the 1970s where I think it was Gough Whitlam sitting up in bed, shaking Margaret and saying “Wake up, dear, I think I’m having an Election” :)
    I’m pretty sure that JWH under the same circumstances would say “Golly!” :)
    Best regards, Andrew

  4. Neerav (8 comments.) on October 14th, 2007 at 9:05 pm:

    Thanks for the link Andrew

    I credit Meg for prompting me to send that email as she promotes communication within the Aussie blogger community and I hadn’t really participated in it until her top 100 Aussie bloggers list was launched

    PS Andrew your “subscribe to comments” checkbox is missing its explanatory text

  5. AndrewBoyd on October 14th, 2007 at 9:13 pm:

    Hi Neerav,

    thank you for your comment. Meg is indeed a wonderful woman and a fantasic ambassador for Australian blogging.

    I will look into the missing explanatory text thing - I installed the subscribe plugin without really looking into it properly.

    Best regards, Andrew

  6. Neerav (8 comments.) on October 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm:

    The place to go to fix it is:

    Wordpress Admin ->Options->Subscribe to Comments

    Once there you can customize the messages shown to different people, it may also require some fiddling of your WP template

  7. AndrewBoyd on October 14th, 2007 at 9:35 pm:

    Thank you Neerav,

    that was just the information I required :)
    It should be fixed now.

    Best regards, and good luck once again with Werriwa.

    Andrew

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