Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi …

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A general post for discussion of the Australian Election results as they come in tonight.  Will be updated with events.  Results should start to filter through after 8 pm local time when the booths close.  The opinion polls are neck and neck …

Update:  2 and a half hours in and the Liberals are looking rattled.  They are complaining that Labour told lies about Medicare and ran a frighten campaign.  Seats are Libs 61 Labour 60 Greens 1 and independents 4 …

Update 2:  When I went to sleep at about midnight the ABC was estimating the seat count at 73:67 with the Libs in front.  This morning it is 67 all …

Update 3: The Electoral Commision has ended the count for the time being, with Labor being called ahead in 72 seats, the Lib’s ahead in 67, Greens 1, and others 4.  7 seats are too close to call and a further 2 may change, including one where the Greens are neck and neck with Labor. Malcolm Turnbull gave a weird speech around midnight and has already faced a call for his resignation because of the 3% + swing against his coalition Government. Some Conservatives believe Tony Abbott would have done better.

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      agreed +1000 Scott…I watched her on the ABC for 5 and a half hours yesterday; superb. Incisive, informed, intelligent, took no shit from the Liberal wanker to her left and when she called the result an “aubergine” I just cracked up.

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    Channel 9 exit poll has a 50/50 split on preferred vote and a 3.4% swing to Labor in marginals.

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    Can,t see anything but a coalition win thanks to the media especially Sky News stacking their panels with ignorant right wingers.If Turnbull gets in they are going to roll the same out of date policies that this incompetent regime over here have.

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      Don’t blame Sky News. Sky News in the UK didn’t stop Corbyn being elected Leader, despite the best efforts of the Murdoch press.

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        A bit of a false dichotomy implied there. If it is true that the outcome would have been different in the absence of Sky’s bias, then it would be entirely appropriate to level blame at their coverage, regardless of whether other factors might have been involved. Your general approach to these things, here as well as in general recently, has been a bit like blaming someone for being kicked in the teeth, despite the fact that someone had deliberately distracted her attention at that precise moment, someone else had kicked her, and yet another person had set her feet in concrete beforehand, preventing her from taking effective action to evade the blow. Sure, maybe she was a bit drunk at the time, but that would hardly have been the main contributing factor.

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    Queensland looks difficult for Labor. Tasmania, however, may have delivered 2/3 seats to Labor above expectations.

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    Not much from NSW yet where Labor’s fortunes may be determined. The swing to Greens in Bateman is about 12%.

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    Eden-Monaro in NSW which is famously a bellwether seat in Australian elections (not so much now with redistribution) looks to be heading to Labor.

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    ALP is winning big in states with Liberal State Govts while the swing is more muted in states with Labor State Govts.

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    Julie Bishop saying the Xeno team can’t do anything – wonder if Xeno will wind up in the balance of power team.

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          Why? Every opportunity is fair enough, I say. The guy’s a pillock and importantly (for lots of reasons) we need to be reminded of that – hence every opportunity.

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            Not only are you a charmer Chris, but the kilogram of CO2 you’ve added to the Earth’s atmosphere today by wasting our time breathing has been a disappointing and callous waste of carbon budget.

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    Victoria will likely be a disappointment for Labour in the wake of the Labour State govt having being embroiled in a long running dispute with the CFA that turned ugly and political.

    The Liberal opposition ran with a flat-out lie campaign very successfully. The whole story is quite long and involved, but the short version is they played very dirty.

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    Linda Burney, becomes the first Aboriginal woman to be elected into the House of Representatives (lower house of Parliament). The first Aboriginal woman to be elected into Parliament was only back in 2013…

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    Liberals have won 42% of the vote compared to Labour 35% so far.

    So that’s it as far as the popular vote is concerned.

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      Thats coalition which is a mix of about 4-5 parties on 42% primary vote.
      There is no nationwide Liberal party, nor is there a nationwide national party. Strangely in Queensland where they are combined into one party, elected Mps then split into Libs or Nats when it comes which caucus to join.

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        Here is party by party vote so far Sunday

        labour 35.3%
        liberals 28.3
        greens 10.0%
        Liberal nationals 8.3% ( QLD only)
        nationals 5%

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    Because of double dissolution half of Senate HAS to be relected in about two years time ( newly elected senators with short terms have their time in office ‘backdated’)
    While not essential for practical purposes it means HR will also be voted on at the same time.
    So whoever takes office will only have a bit over two years in office before facing relection

    Correction, its only backdated to previous 1 July, because of the date yesterday was 2nd July they dont go back to July 2015.
    So no short term !

    http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2016/04/how-long-and-short-terms-are-allocated-after-a-double-dissolution.html

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