Election

No, not the movie. So today we had congregate in our masses to our local primary school to vote.
In Australia it is compulsory to vote in the state and national election, and today we had to vote for which party we want in Parliament and essentially did we want a new prime minister.
I'll admit to not knowing a lot about politics so my question is do you think it should be compulsory to vote?

I know a lot of people who just vote for who their parents voted for; or who have not much of an idea like me; or those who have even less of a clue. Then is it better to make it non compulsory? This doesn't necessarily mean only informed people will be voting. I'm not sure myself and I also know a lot of people who really see no difference in the 2 front runners anyway, myself included.

Girl Power

So it's all progressive, historic and what have you, that Australia now has their first female prime minister. It's just too bad it had to happen like this.

As usual the media has focused more on her hair (and the fact that she is unmarried, no kids and has a hairdresser for a boyfriend) than any other aspects but it doesn't help when she also proclaims to be the first redhead prime minister. Double standards for women sucks.

By the way the woman on the left is Julia Gillard the new PM, the one on the right is Quentin Bryce the governor general of Australia and she has the power to fire the PM*. It's only happened once. How fricken weird is Australian politics?

*simplified version, I may or may not know what I'm talking about.