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Hello.

I'm going to explain what a DONKEY VOTE is, and I'm also going to talk about a Tsunami that hit Sydney and also hit NZ in 1868.

But first I'm going to talk about what a DONKEY VOTE is, and no, it's not where a Donkey vote's for equal rights that we humans get.

The DONKEY VOTE  is when the Candidates are put down on the Ballot from say, A to D, without the voter taking time to put them in the order that they really want to vote for them.

Now I'm going to talk about the Tsunami that hit NZ and Sydney in 1868.
In August 1868, an Earthquake that was 9.0, went off on the Peru–Chile border and caused a lot of damage.
After the Earthquake went off, it caused a massive Tsunami that hit NZ.
It caused a lot of damage and death on the Chatham Islands and Banks Peninsula.
When it reached Newcastle it, " Moved ships as heavy as 1000 tons to and fro" now, that's got to be a big Tsunami!
It even caused waves 5 feet high!
It also moved those 1000 tone ships on to sandbanks and wharves!
Imagine that, seeing a 1000 tone ship thrown on to a wharf as if a two year old through it into a toy box or something!
It snapped the ferry ropes in Sydney and made the ferry spin around.
It just shows you what kind of power Mother Nature can have.
And in Wollongong Harbour, the water fell 4 feet, and passers by took advantage and started picking up the Lobsters that had been caught in the open!
Adelaide had huge waves, too.
Talk about a free feed, it just shows that it wasn't that bad after all.   

Hello.

Today I learnt a bit more about the history of Australian voting.

I found out that the old way of electing some one was called SHOW OF HANDS, and that to elect someone in this way, you had to raise your hand.
The down side was, other people would know who you voted for, and might not speak to you anymore if they didn't agree with you.

When the secret ballot came, people didn't know who you were voting for, but the thing is, the candidate that has the most votes sometimes doesn't have more then 50%.

Preferential voting was next, all you did was put down 1 to 4.
The candidate that you didn't like the most, you put 4 next to it, the one you did like the most, you put 1 next to.

And so that's what I learnt about voting today.

Yesterday we had an earthquake up at Hervey bay, in QLD and that was 2.7 on the magnitude scale.
We also had another two this year in September.
One of the others was on the 5th of September and it was up in Howes Valley in NSW, and it was 3.2.
The other one was on the 4th of September and it was up in Pyramid Hill, Vic, and that was 2.2.

See ya tomorrow.