I thought straight in, straight out - 10 minutes. When I got there, the line was out the door.

After a while I got somebody to push me up the sharp step, 20 minutes later I got to the girl to get the voting sheets.

She could see I was in pain and said the hold up had been the computer. I saw a table on the side wall where I could sit and fill out the two forms.

When I got there, there was no chair. 

Where was the supervisor?

A voter nearby got the chair, which was about 10 feet away.

When I picked up the pen to fill out the forms, it was broken.

The same voter ripped one from a nearby polling booth and gave it to me. When I went to put the forms in the boxes, there was nobody there.

It was good to see Daryl Maguire saying how good the hospital was coming along, but what about the computer service and staffing for the two busiest weeks of the year?

Maybe because it was only early polling, they did not worry too much.

Lucky, my bed was ready for me when I got home.

RE: Suburban and small town and village shopping centres and the like. Does the LNP have any plans for protection of them or are they going to roll over for the monopolies ie. Woolworths and Coles.

These centres are large employers of local residents. Examples - the following - independent supermarkets, pharmacies, hair salons, coffee shops, cafes, post offices, newsagents and so forth.

There is a very large flow-on for other businesses to support and suppliers as such. Delivery drivers, tradesmen, cleaners, and so forth, which run into hundreds, if not thousands of employees, involving small business.

One of the worst examples coming up is the lottery and lottos rumoured to be given into Woolworths and Coles.

A SHORT comment on the article by “Ben” in web words (The Daily Advertiser, Friday, March 27).

You claim that the State Liberals have not put a foot wrong, you seem to “conveniently” forget that 11 Liberal members of parliament have had to resign in this term due to being found to be corrupt.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of honesty and good government is it? Phony Tony was not necessarily bound to be unpopular, his unpopularity stems from the fact that he continually tells lies and cannot be trusted.  

He is not even liked by at least 40 per cent of his own government members.

That we have someone like him leading the government brings shame on the Australian people. 

This is no better highlighted than in an interview on ABC 7.30 on May 10, 2010, when he admitted that the only time he could be believed was when he was reading from a carefully scripted, prepared document. Whatever comes out of his mouth at other times is whatever suits his purpose at the time, truth or otherwise.

Of course we also have plenty of instances of untruths from him during the last election and since.

Heaven help you if you had to go to war with him, if he followed the path of Robert Menzies and John Howard who both sent Australians to war on a lie.

Of course he would not be involved in the war himself, just putting others in harms way, good at leading from the rear.