Thoughts in mind

Lately I've been thinking in mind about Australia? Since currently we have that whole political stuff happening right now and how Julia Gillard is now the Prime Minister of Australia. But I would have to say I'm proud of her being the first female Prime Minister of Australia's history. Since the last debate against Canterbury Boys and how the main topic was based on Australian Politics, it really did keep me thinking about it. What if Australia did became a republic country? And yes that would be a whole hassle of turning that around cause it's all about the money in this world today! During our debate we mentioned about how voting is voluntary and if you don't vote here, you get fined which is pretty much a punishment. For example, what if someone needs to go overseas because of an emergency due to family situations or even to deal with work. Well you still can vote, but I mean it's alot of paper work too! And people have other committments and we shouldn't be forced, cause maybe more likely some people here might be interested. Therefore I actually strongly do believe that voting should be all about freedom of choice, there are both positive and negative sides towards it, but it's a good benefit for Australian citizens to vote since they are the "citizens" of this country. The other side is that majority of Australian's don't know how the Parliament and legislation works. It would be interesting to see in the future if 16 years old were allow to vote for elections because we are going to be the leaders of this nation one day.