Week 6: Votecompass

This week we were encouraged to use abc.net's Votecompass tool, a digital survey of sorts that plots your voting preferences based on certain policies and topics you find important. As seen in my results I am inclined towards voting for the Greens, this was my voting preference before the test. Some other students that had taken the test discovered varied results to their voting preference. Although this is an in depth questionnaire it is by no means the only source of information that we should look for during an election. This tool even provides rational for a certain party's position on a policy. I regard myself as being fairly up to date with political issues and policy but there were some questions that prompted further research into topic I find less interest in.

abc.net.au, 2013, Votecompass, viewed 29 August 2013, <http://www.abc.net.au/votecompass/?hash=999e136beea1668e609da0385ad5754d1e18a6005c41377762386>