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Leaders awards night

Whatthepeoplewant has asked you to nominate class awards. We've short-listed the best suggestions and now we're ready for the voting!

We would like you to answer two questions to select the final winners. You can only vote once in each category not once per politician.

The prize for the winning entries will be A Mother and Son DVD.

We're also asking you to help our politicians out with some New Year resolutions.

NOTE: This questionnaire is now closed. Do not fill it in, it cannot be submitted.

Question 1. Thinking about state politics and looking at the following list of awards, which award do you think is the most imaginative, innovative and humorous? You are judging the writer, not the nominee.
Please check a box in the red column.

Question 2. Thinking about state politics and looking at the following list of awards, which award do think is most justly deserved? This can be the same as your answer to the previous question, but doesn't have to be. You are judging the writer, not the nominee.
Please check a box in the blue column.

   

Premier Peter Beattie
"Bob the Builder": Can we fix it? Yes we can.
"Best impression of a Ferris wheel": Only does one thing - spins constantly.
"Oscar"
"Hecouldbe Diva": Running first in a field of also-rans.
"The Warnie": Lots of spin, a genuine show pony, and an unstinting ability to blame everyone else for problems of his own making.
"Red Rubber Ball": bounces back higher time after time and still smiling
"Persistence": trying to do what he believes in spite of the turkeys who try to get him down.
   

Speaker Tony McGrady
"Judge Roy Bean": dispensation of justice, Wild West style
"The Barry Gomersall": unbiased refereeing and passing of judgment
   

Former Health Minister Gordon Nuttall
"Carmen Lawrence Parliamentary Inquiries I Have No Recollection Of That"
"The Sergeant Schultz": Knows nothing.
   

Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg
"Best impersonation": Of a fence-post. Lawrence Springborg carries into politics all the steadfastness and solidity of the iron-bark post he is.
"Encouragement Award": We need a strong opposition.
"Celebrity Overhaul": He has got the Nationals and liberals together
"Bloody mindedness": Hung in there when he was being ignored.
   

Coalition Leaders Bob Quinn and Lawrence Springborg
"Peter Allan Liza Minelli": For their marriage of convenience, where they smile through the pain.
"Bride and Prejudice": An arranged marriage of inconvenience.
   

Liberal Leader Bob Quinn
"The Zombie (dead man walking) Award"

3. You are standing next to Peter Beattie on New Year's Eve and he turns to you and says: "I'm going to make a New Year's Resolution. It's one I'm going to actually keep. If you were me, what resolution would you make?" In no more than one or two sentences, what do you say to him?

4. You are standing next to Lawrence Springborg on New Year's Eve and he turns to you and says: "I'm going to make a New Year's Resolution. It's one I'm going to actually keep. If you were me, what resolution would you make?" In no more than one or two sentences, what do you say to him?

5. You are standing next to Bob Quinn on New Year's Eve and he turns to you and says: "I'm going to make a New Year's Resolution. It's one I'm going to actually keep. If you were me, what resolution would you make?" In no more than one or two sentences, what do you say to him?

6. Thinking about the last state election, how did you vote?

7. Thinking about elections in general, for which party do you generally vote?

8. Your Name

9. Age

10. Gender

11. Residential Postcode

12. Email Address

(Only required to confirm that details are correct and are yours).

13. Are you prepared to be involved in follow-up research?

(If you answer "Yes" to this question we may send you further occasional questionnaires).

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