Nope, I used belowtheline.org.au.

I *almost* considered voting above the line, but none of the parties put their preferences quite the way I liked them. It must be frustrating for the candidates who did well in the primary votes to be pipped at the post by preference deals.

I actually think the time has come for the idea of true democracy - where everyone gets to vote in parliament on every thing - a large percentage of the population carries a smart phone and would be able to install an app to vote in federal issues. I think that's what the Senator Online party were aiming for. If the time hasn't come already for this style of democracy, it will soon...

I spent about 15hrs going through all the various policies from all the senate candidates. It truly was a difficult decision who to put last... and really quite depressing to have parties like the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party, who only got a very small number of primary votes make it through to the senate on preferences.

The way Lufthansa handled my wife's lost luggage during her recent trip to Europe was absolutely pitiful. The staff were utterly horrible, and despite promises that she would be reimbursed for everything she had to replace during the 11 days the luggage was missing (on a 15 day trip), we are still waiting for reimbursement 2 months later, having even taken everything to the nearest Lufthansa office in another state for verification. Their call centre staff are ridiculously rude - I will grant that their English is better than my German, but to then have to chase them repeatedly and take all the items plus receipts on an interstate trip at our own expense and even then not be reimbursed is just terrible.

Well, it'll prevent further breaches... as long as the whole piece of paper burns!

I have a car. I choose not to drive it when going out for drinks. It's called being a responsible adult, you douchebag.

And it was $75 to go a distance I'd previously been in a taxi for $35... it was a nicer ride, but way too expensive to use regularly.

Not sure if you realise... but when you're on a work computer, all your internet requests usually go through some form of proxy server - which is how your IT department finds out what you access regularly and blocks it. Clearing your browser history is useless since every request is logged in a centralised server before it goes out to the net.

I tip my hat to you, sir! :)

Amusing, but it is absolutely ridiculous that if you want to buy 3 copies of Adobe Creative Suite in Australia, it's cheaper to fly to the US and buy them there, then fly straight back. And that's just one example, there's even the Steam Ripoffs site to show how much we get shafted for games.

You're completely mistaken. That was the case, years ago, but these days, I think you'll find that Amazon's sales business is now about 1/3 of their total business, with the remainder being cloud services provisioning. That's a direct quote from the Amazon account manager I had at my last job, and probably out of date now since it was stated close to two years ago to me.

I pay for Game of Thrones and True Blood through my Foxtel subscription in Australia - $100/month for the privilege of two shows I enjoy for a grand total of 6 months of the year. The rest of the time, I can't find anything to watch on my ridiculously overpriced satellite TV connection, everything else i'm interested in requires forking over an additional $30 or $60/month - so pardon me while I illegally download the rest of what I want to watch. Give me something worthwhile, at a decent price, and I'll pay it, but when I spend $1200 and mostly cannot find TV shows worth watching on this overpriced crappy satellite tv network (and I don't even get movies or sport at that price!) then please excuse me while I illegally download the rest of my content.

Be honest. You pirated their software just as much as everyone else ;)

Optimist!

Malcolm Turnbull, or Tony Abbott, is that you?

Sounds far better than a couple of managers I've had. One asked for our advice, which we duly gave, and he ignored, going with a contractor's more-expensive and convoluted suggestions every time - he was sideways transferred when it became apparent that he was getting kickbacks from this contractor. The next manager asked us for options, which we duly gave, and a recommendation as to which we thought was best and it's reasons, and so he chose the cheapest each time, regardless of budget... I then left when they gave the control of the IT department to the HR manager, after that IT manager quit.