Every time I sit down to post about the elections and the state of play here in LA I end up discarding it. Sometimes because I end up on a tangent and other times because: “if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say it at all”. That could very well explain the lack of posts for some time. But with a new lease on life and people asking me about how voting works in Australia I thought that now would be a perfect opportunity to talk about the differences in voting between American and Australia. In Australia … Voting is compulsory That’s right everyone who is legally able to vote, must be legally registered to vote and therefore turn up and vote in an election. Voting is on a Saturday Voting in Australia is on a Saturday. And it’s an event. Every local primary school, scout or community hall and places in between are open for polling. It’s very rare to wait long and there is always a sausage sizzle. A sausage sizzle is when local community groups set up a BBQ and cook sausages and serve those sausages in plain white bread and BBQ’d onions. You …