Marcel Wegermann

Today the Australien Labor Party (ALP) got the majority of seats in the house of parliament. 76 seats were necessary to bring up the new goverment. Actually Labor gots 89 seats, the Coalition with the old Prime Minister John Howard got only 59 Seats. In this way Kevin Rudd is the new Prime Minister of Australia.

Australia's election system is working in the single transferable vote system (Praeferenzwahlsystem). That mean that Australians don't vote for someone with one cross. They are ordering their preferred parties by numbers. For Example: first Green, than Labor than What-ever... See more

The Labor has announced that they want to sign the Kyoto protocol. Maybe this fact will force Amerika a little bit to sign Kyoto as well.

John Howard was the Prime Minister for more than eleven years. If Howard is going to travel abroad I can lend him my new little space ship and my gravitation shoes.