week 8 tutorial Task

Icky...politics...i did and intro to politics course last semester...I wanted to kill myself! Honestly, i find it boring as anything, Obviously I'm aware that its politics and politicians that make laws blah blah... but that still doesn't mean it has to interest me!


Sign an e-petition.
I signed one regarding animal cruelty( a german shepard was beaten to death in its own front yard ) on epetitions.net

Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
I made a comment about an article on Buckley that little puppy in gympie that had its ears and tail cut off with scissorts by teenagers then dumped in a school field, at ninemsn.com.. i wrote i would cut the person who did its ears off....

What is Barack Obama up to today?
About 17 hours ago, he was in New York - meeting with world leaders at the UN. Boo-yah having a twitter account finally payed off!

Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Local Representative is:
I don't know..

State Representative is:
Peter Dowling

Federal Representative is:
Andrew Laming

Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
Well i can't look up no one in parliment now can i!?

Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
I don't know who they are :(

"Clean Feed".
This has been around in China for a while, and the fact they are even considering it over here in Australia is disgraceful! We have the right to search whatever we want and know what is available to us over the web. This counrty is a democracy, this sort of control over what we can and can't view has no place hererights of the country.