i cant believe u ppl, i cant believe the degree of cynicism that exists in ppl who think theres a hidden agenda behind everything...
sigh...
but i guess thats democracy eh?
free choice... free speech... thats what makes our nations great...
heres something else... when the RO caught vision red-handed today having off-campus campaigners campaigning... he gave us (power) a choice whether he should disqualify them automatically, or give them another chance with penalty... we had a chance to have them disqualified for the same reason...
Bambul...
in response to what u have said, heres my reply...
if u bothered to pick up "The Guild Election Guide", which was available today and turn to the preference flows page, u'll notice that the student first ticket thats running this year, is only a shell ticket, its purpose exists...
thats true... alot of the parties in uni elections are run from a grp of friends... but these tend to be smaller elections like for clubs and societies...
but if one election is different... its the guild election...
one cos its the biggest election in the year, and in order to even have a...
in the end thats ur decision to make...
but im suggesting that u should at least spare 5mins to hear what we have to say rather than refuse to vote outright... bcos this does concern u
thats true... i agree we're prolly a bit persistent sometimes... but i guess we have to be persistent... otherwise too many ppl'll just ignore u...
i think its not too much trouble to spare 2-3mins to just hear what we have to say...
bcos unlike the vision flyer... we want to let u know abt our policies... we are proud of our policies and we want let u know what we are going to do if we are elected into office... we believe in an open and accountable guild which is why we are explicitly stating our policies so that we will...
as manoj said in the election debate last thursday... power will fund and organise a campaign across campus to pressue the unsw council to pass a second bill anulling the first one
and by the way... power, being a ticket consisting broadly of centre left and broad left, is the only party who...
we photocopied the letter and gave it to everyone of our campaigners because no doubt vision will try to spin some bs... and the letter is evidence
no we cant stop the government raising taxes... but the guild is the representative body for students on campus... and what vision (student...
it takes us a loooooooong time to make the flyers and alot of abuse to get it into ur hands... if u actually take 2mins and read the flyer then it wouldnt be a waste of trees would it?
hes the president of hte unsw union... no the unsw guild
u pay abt 250dollars every year... 150 of that goes to the union, which subsidises ur food in uni and operates the uni bar, etc, basically providing services...
the other 100dollars goes to the guild, which is meant to be the...
whoever did that i apologise for it... that is rude
however if u look closely... u'll see that the only posters we poster over are events that have already happened, and in terms of advertisment of rent and sale, etc, we remove them and stick them up somewhere else on the board... we dont...
that choice is urs in the end... but i just want to say... dude... u pay 100dollars every year for the guild to represent ur interests and campaign for ur good... so what im saying is no matter which party u end up voting for or if ur not even gona vote.... the least u should do is take 5mins of...
im not gona be stupid and say no to that... yes... some of them are no doubt out there because they want an extra line on their cv...
these ppl are likely to be the "supposedly independent tickets - non politically aligned" like the one vision is running this yr...
but some of them are not...
look dude... most of these ppl whom u call faggots arent even running for a position... they out there taking abuse and rejections because they are passionate abt their causes... and ur sitting on ur fatass saying im so important i cant even spare 5mins of my time to hear them out... u r the...