Political Participation

Because I am from Norway this blogpost was not easy for me to do, since I do not know that much about Australian politics. I have been given some tasks on political participation, and will now reply on which ones I would do while sticking to my political beliefs.

I searched around for e-petitions and I did find one I wanted to sign. Because I was not sure if i am a "resident" of Queensland or not. I decided to hold of on doing it since the condition of use said something about being fined and imprisoned which is not something I would like to happen. Anyway the e-petition i wanted to sign is called 'Ban on lightweight plastic bags in Queensland' - and I chose this one because I agree, that we use to much plastic, not only in Queensland but all over the globe. If more people knew that plastic is made of oil, and that the ocean is full of it and killing the animals, they might just think twice before using too much of it?

I rarely comment on stuff, not even on Facebook. Not to go in to details about me, but I do have some problems with people judging others opinions, and that is why I tend to comment in my head instead, so the next thing I was to do was respond to a blogger on major news site. I am not going to do this, since I have some troubles with it.

Next on the list was contacting Barack Obama - to do this i could try tweeting him. I am not going to do this either, but I will tell you this; A couple of days ago he was on 'reddit', speaking to the people via social medias. If you go HERE, you can see what he talked about.

When searching the NBN homepage I searched for my postcode to find out when I will get NBN and this was the results:

Print screen (nbnco.com.au)

Next on the list I had to find the local, state and federal representatives where I live. This is where i found information about the representatives: Role in government - I am not going to send them a message, since I do not have anything I want to ask them. And I wont list all of their names, since there is so many. Here is another link to the federal representatives of Queensland: Senators and Members

Doing this, I found out more about Australia and Queensland, and how politics works on the Internet


Pages mention / references: 

http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/petitions/e-petitions

http://www.nbnco.com.au

http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/council/role-in-government-206.html

http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian_Search_Results?q=&sta=QLD&mem=1&par=-1&gen=0&ps=10

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states

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