I can't think of anything he has done to benift the seat though which wasn't something already in motion?
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I can't think of anything he has done to benift the seat though which wasn't something already in motion?
... that's the point
I'm bad at internet humour
Dear Eastern States,
Have coffee, because we're gonna keep you up again. Send GST.
Love, Hasluck
People seem to have caught on that my preferred polling place is dead in the afternoon. God help me if they ever run a sausage sizzle there. Anyway, I want to predict Lib will retain the seat, but maybe the hate for the state government will send it back to Labor. Still, I am leaning more towards Liberal, if only because Ken Wyatt was at the top of the list.
Have coffee, because we're gonna keep you up again. Send GST.
Love, Hasluck
People seem to have caught on that my preferred polling place is dead in the afternoon. God help me if they ever run a sausage sizzle there. Anyway, I want to predict Lib will retain the seat, but maybe the hate for the state government will send it back to Labor. Still, I am leaning more towards Liberal, if only because Ken Wyatt was at the top of the list.
Hart is one of my best mate's uncles (yeah yeah Tasmania). But I feel like I have the ear of power.
Stopped clocks.
The ABC is presuming much of WA, while the others aren't, right?
I think it's pretty reasonable.
we'll adopt her into NSW or something, it'll be okay!
bobnowhere
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Scott Morrison's at the point of the night where he's relying on postals and pre-polls.
DeSo
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God damn I envy you. I'm currently having weekly blood tests. Have had at least ten before now too.
Mm he looks less frazzled than he did half an hour ago.
I didn't even notice that. The polling booth I went to was pretty empty in the afternoon too.
First time I've ever voted in my life! The whole process was pretty smooth (though the Senate ballot paper was much larger than I had expected).
Aarglefarg
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On the AEC website:
Two party preferred
The progressive national two party count includes all divisions where these counts are now underway.
Liberal/National Coalition: 49.44%
Australian Labor Party: 50.56%
http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDefault-20499.htm
EDIT: In the time I've been monitoring its changes, they've been getting farther apart.
Two party preferred
The progressive national two party count includes all divisions where these counts are now underway.
Liberal/National Coalition: 49.44%
Australian Labor Party: 50.56%
http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDefault-20499.htm
EDIT: In the time I've been monitoring its changes, they've been getting farther apart.
Candescence
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Antony Green has actually thrown up his hands and said "fuck it, we're not gonna see a clear result until the end of the night."
Immensely salty. Like, insurmountably salty - it was easily the biggest challenge for Tony to overcome and I never thought he got a hold of it and relied on his grandfatherly aspects a little too much. That and his late decision to run again caught many groups out (GetUp!, despite much huffing and puffing were fucking ineffective up here, for example).
Even though BJ has been a no-show for most of the last three years, was quick to deflect many issues as being 'state issues' (despite being a massive advocate for Walcha during the recent state-based council mergers/amalgamations) and is a fundamental Roman Catholic something-or-other denomination (hence his ridiculous views on many social aspects and his wonderful quote about his daughters needing to marry men).
But you know, he's also a dinkydi aussie who wears akubras, oi oi oi, so there you go.
This has always been a conservative, National seat (TW of course being a former Nat), so his 'betrayal' to the ALP was like a personal sleight, or dagger into the hearts of many many people in this place who seemingly carry a grudge until the grave. And TW I think, was a bit weak at really getting stuck into BJ over mining, NBN, being socially regressive and the many general pre-election money promises (pork barreling) that were made.
Blurgh.
Yeah, I'm on weekly blood tests too (My doctor's almost feeling confident to go to fortnightly blood tests!) and monthly blood tests before I was diagnosed with cancer.
Aarglefarg
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Model predicting the coalition will reach 75. Implying Bob Katter will join up for 76. I heard him say this while writing my previous post and expected heaps of posts to appear above mine about that.
bobnowhere
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Wouldn't be surprised if we end up with an independent speaker. McGowan? The NXT woman? Might improve the tenor of parliament.
Amanda Vanstone might punch someone soon.
I've never understood this. Whoever wins has a mandate to do what they campaigned on. That's literally the point of a democratic election. Even if they won by one vote. Of course, they can't complain about the Senate blocking something, because if they didn't win a majority in the Senate they don't have a mandate.
30yearsofhurt
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Well that explains it.
No, they don't. Clear case in this election. If you are returned with a smaller majority or none, your policies have no mandate. They have a mandate to form government. Their policies have no mandate. And yeah, most often you hear it from minority governments complaining that the Senate is blocking their mandate. It's tosh.
choodi
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Bullshit. An elected government has a mandate to implement its policies, whether the majority is reduced or not.
jellies_two
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Can try the strength of the mandate, but they just said the bills won't pass both houses. So uh lame duck government.
Black Republican
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Someone post the gif.
30yearsofhurt
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Labour leading TPP nationally 50.7 to 49.3.
Channel 9 going full retard now.
Channel 9 going full retard now.
Arguably worse considering Joh Bjelke-Petersen ran QLD as a police state for like two decades.
If they win the election they have a mandate. I don't know what swings have to do with it? Elections aren't rolling contests. Every election starts from zero again. If the party that wins the most seats doesn't have a mandate to try and implement the policies they campaigned on, what's the point of an election in the first place?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
not if the indies that support the government but block certain bills get returned...
Black Republican
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Short answer, yes.
Queensland has voted labor 2pp twice since the war. They have had a state premier that was extremely close to a literal fascist.
Edit: going on Florida demographic trends it's actually worse.
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