Australian federal election

[Cristo Rei]

I've got some frozen Russia tundra land, really flat and really windy you may be interested in, located against the lush forestland about 500 km to the South and this huge frozen lake, frozen for about 8 months out of the year, about 200 km to the North.. Really cheap....

Well Elbo has won !
A total moron won ! He is just like a kid, he has never had a Job in his life ! he is just like Joe Biden an empty head full of bubbles.

We have never had a worse ALP Leader ever, he takes the cake for the most gutless useless Rat like one could think of.
One could never trust Elbo at all.

Stupid Aussies voting for this numpty...

I'm dreading the policies that are going to be brought in but most of all I'm dreading the next plandemic. Albo is likely to force it on everyone and lock us down even worse than Andrews did, freeze bank accounts and detain opposition without being heard in court. All while the left cheer it on. And even if I did want to defect to another country I can't travel without a stupid vaccine pass. Very uncertain times ahead.

So what happens to ScoMo now... He disappears like a ghost never to be seen again. Gets $350,000 a year for the rest of his life now, free air travel to anywhere and other greedy parks. Screw him. Screw all those politicians. That's tax payers money

Australia has been under a right wing government for about 10 years. They introduced of all kinds of crazy lgbt and feminist laws like gay marriage and its indoctrination upon children allowing them to change sex against the parents wishes.

So what's next for Australia... Ban Christianity. Zoophilia. Ban the bible. Dark days are ahead for this nation

 

[Josho]

To America that is how long it takes to count votes... Not a week

Watch out for Penny Wong to get promoted into Albos cabinet I reckon and from there she can become the first gay leader in the world

She would have to be careful when visiting Muslim countries

 

[Josho]

I bet ya it's mainly city slickers and inner suburbia that got Albo and Greens over the line, if you look at Tassie, most of them voted Lib, if you look at regional Vic, most voted NAT, same with regional NSW and regional QLD majority voted for Liberal Nationals and the big western chunk of Qld is Katter's, WA probably a different story, but NT even though they reckon Labor has both seats there was a 4% swing towards the Country Libs in Lingiari and thin margin which covers the 99.9% of the NT's land.

 

[APAK]

Stupid Aussies voting for this numpty...

I'm dreading the policies that are going to be brought in but most of all I'm dreading the next plandemic. Albo is likely to force it on everyone and lock us down even worse than Andrews did, freeze bank accounts and detain opposition without being heard in court. All while the left cheer it on. And even if I did want to defect to another country I can't travel without a stupid vaccine pass. Very uncertain times ahead.

So what happens to ScoMo now... He disappears like a ghost never to be seen again. Gets $350,000 a year for the rest of his life now, free air travel to anywhere and other greedy parks. Screw him. Screw all those politicians. That's tax payers money

Australia has been under a right wing government for about 10 years. They introduced of all kinds of crazy lgbt and feminist laws like gay marriage and its indoctrination upon children allowing them to change sex against the parents wishes.

So what's next for Australia... Ban Christianity. Zoophilia. Ban the bible. Dark days are ahead for this nation

What you are describing where you are living is no different in what goes on over here.THis Albo is like a brother of ScoMo, they might be part of the established political tag team...Liberal to Labor Party and Labor to Liberal Pary..all the same...amd the beat goes on..all in it for the world new order of slavery.

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Australia’s election: ScoMo, Albo and everything else you need to know

By Michael E. Miller
May 20, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. EDT


Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party, left, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the Liberal Party in a May 8 debate in Sydney. (Photographer: Pool/Getty Images)

SYDNEY — After a snarky, slippery, six-week sprint of a campaign, Australians will decide Saturday who will govern the country for the next three years. Polls show a close race between the ruling conservative coalition, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and the center-left Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese.

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The election comes at a time of growing anxiety Down Under, with rising inflation undercutting a strong economy and an increasingly assertive China stirring fear in the region. Years of drought, bush fires and floods have boosted concerns over climate change, although the major parties have mostly shied away from the issue.

Instead, the election is shaping up as a referendum on Morrison and his Liberal-National coalition, which has been in power for almost a decade. The prime minister is trailing in the polls, but he defied them in 2019.

Who are the candidates?

Morrison, 54, became prime minister in 2018, when the coalition turned on then-leader Malcolm Turnbull over his calls for action on climate change. Morrison, in contrast, is a staunch backer of Australia’s coal industry. As treasurer, he once brought a lump of coal into Parliament, passed it around and told fellow lawmakers, “Don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you.”

Scott Morrison brings a chunk of coal into Parliament



In February 2017, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, then treasurer, brought a chunk of coal into Parliament to support the mining industry. (Video: Australian Parliament House via Storyful)

ScoMo, as the prime minister is known here, is a former marketing executive who bills himself as a sports-loving family man from Sydney’s southern suburbs. Yet he’s also skilled at pithy takedowns of political opponents. A year ago, he appeared to be cruising toward reelection, thanks to Australia’s early success in keeping out the coronavirus. But a slow vaccine rollout and outbreaks of the delta and omicron variants renewed criticism over his crisis management — a subject that first flared when Morrison went on vacation during devastating bush fires in 2019 and 2020.

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Albanese, 59, is a longtime member of his party’s progressive wing. Albo — few here escape the Australian love for abbreviation — grew up in public housing in working-class inner Sydney. Despite a quarter-century in Parliament and three years as party leader, he started the campaign as a relative unknown. One reason was his party’s decision not to challenge crucial legislation during the coronavirus pandemic, which left the spotlight to Morrison and state leaders. But Albanese also has run a small-target campaign, paring back some of Labor’s more divisive policies — such as cuts to carbon emissions — and eschewing others to avoid a repeat of the party’s 2019 defeat.



Albanese speaks to reporters at a manufacturing plant in Perth on May 17. (Lukas Coch/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Albanese’s attempt to introduce himself was undermined by a stumbling start to his campaign. On his first day on the trail, he flubbed questions about the unemployment and cash rates. Then he tested positive for the coronavirus, putting him in isolation for a week as his opponent toured the country.

But Albanese recovered — from covid and his missteps — and performed well at three debates. Most recently, it is the prime minister who slipped, literally, when he accidentally squashed a 7-year-old during a soccer game.

Labor looks likelier. The party has topped polls consistently since Morrison called the election in April, and the coalition’s current razor-thin majority means the opposition need pick up only seven seats in the House of Representatives to form a government. A major poll released 10 days before election day predicted Labor would win almost twice that number.


More recent surveys, however, show the party’s lead narrowing to a few percentage points. And Morrison’s “miracle” comeback in 2019 has left analysts wary of putting too much faith in the projections.

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[APAK]

"I think what the closing of the polls more recently says is that yes, people have gone off Morrison, but they haven’t quite sealed the deal with the opposition,” said Wayne Errington, a political scientist at the University of Adelaide and the co-author of a book on Morrison.

In Australia’s quiet climate election, independents could make noise

Another possibility is a hung Parliament in which no party has a majority in the 151-seat House. The last time that happened was in 2010, when the coalition and Labor both won 72 seats. Labor leader Julia Gillard won the support of three independents and a Greens legislator to reach the 76 needed to form a government.

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Volunteers hand out how-to-vote cards at an early-voting center in Melbourne on May 17. (William West/AFP/Getty Images)

Labor again looks more capable of crafting a minority government, if necessary. Climate-focused independents appear on course to win at least a few seats from the coalition. Though these independents have been coy about which party they would back in Parliament, it’s far more likely that they would strike a climate deal with Labor than the coalition, Errington said, at least so long as Morrison is its leader.

The economy has taken center stage. Australia emerged from the pandemic in better shape than almost any other country. On Thursday, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.9 percent — lowest in half a century. The prime minister has taken credit. “It’s a choice between a strong economy and a Labor opposition that would weaken it,” Morrison has warned. Albanese’s unemployment rate gaffe played into this argument.

But inflation is more than twice the rate of wage growth, and Albanese has tried to tap into the anger of people who are working more but effectively earning less. “Under Scott Morrison, real wages are plummeting while the costs of living are skyrocketing,” Albanese said Wednesday. He has called for raising the minimum wage by a dollar, something Morrison has said would hurt small-business owners.
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Morrison accidentally knocks over a child during a visit to the Devonport Strikers Soccer Club on May 18. (Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Another major issue is Morrison himself. The prime minister’s credibility has repeatedly been called into question. First, French President Emmanuel Macron accused Morrison of lying over a scrapped submarine deal. Then came a flurry of attacks from within the coalition, including leaked text messages describing him as a “horrible person,” “complete psycho,” and “a hypocrite and a liar.” One senator from Morrison’s party used her departing speech to call the prime minister “an autocrat, a bully who has no moral compass.”



“It’s not ideological,” Paul Williams, a political scientist at Griffith University in Brisbane, told The Washington Post last month. “That is the damaging thing. The claims are personal: ‘He’s a liar, he’s a hypocrite, he’s a bully, he’s power mad.’ And that is starting to bite.”

For Australian voters, a meaty decision

The prime minister is also dogged by accusations that he has dodged responsibility. After returning from his vacation during the bush fires, he infamously responded to criticism by saying “I don’t hold a hose, mate.” Video footage of exhausted firefighters and citizens refusing to shake his hand echoed in March, when residents of the flood-ravaged town of Lismore protested the prime minister’s belated, brief and carefully stage-managed visit.

The surprise issue has been national security. Ten days into the campaign, China signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands, raising fears that the superpower could build a military base on the strategically important archipelago 1,000 miles off Australia’s northeast coast. Albanese accused Morrison of “dropping the ball” and leaving Australia “less secure.”

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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, left, and Chinese Ambassador Li Ming cut a ribbon during the opening ceremony for a Chinese-funded national stadium complex in Honiara on April 22. (Mavis Podokolo/AFP/Getty Images)


No matter who is elected, little will change in Australia’s close relationship with the United States, said Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at the Australian National University. Washington sees Canberra as a key ally in pushing back against China. Last year’s AUKUS agreement — a landmark deal for the United States and the United Kingdom to provide Australia with nuclear-propelled submarines — underscored the alliance. Albanese supports the agreement. When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken came to Australia in February, he made a point of visiting both Morrison and the opposition leader.



Similarly, Australia’s frosty relationship with China isn’t likely to thaw if Albanese becomes prime minister. Although the prime minister called Albanese’s deputy a “Manchurian candidate,” the reality is that Labor’s policies toward China largely mirror Morrison’s.

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“A Labor government would not back down regarding China’s coercive demands, the famous 14 points — that’s been made absolutely clear,” Medcalf said. “There probably would be a slight change of tone or rhetoric, but I don’t think there will be any fundamental change in position.”

In the wake of the China-Solomon Islands security agreement, Albanese announced he would boost aid, diplomacy, media outreach and efforts to combat climate change in the Indo-Pacific to restore “Australia’s place as the partner of choice” for countries the region. Morrison has also promised to increase engagement.

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An early voting center in the Melbourne seat of Chisholm on May 19. (William West/AFP/Getty Images)

How do elections work Down Under? (in OZ anyway!!!)

First, voting is compulsory. All Australians 18 and older are required to cast a ballot; those who do not are assessed a fine of about $14, rising to $140 if they don’t pay.

Second, in the country’s parliamentary system, Australians don’t vote directly for their prime minister. Instead, voters in each of the 151 federal electorates elect a member to represent them in the House of Representatives. The prime minister is the leader of the party that commands the confidence of the House and is appointed by the governor general, the representative of Queen Elizabeth in Australia.

Forty of the 76 seats in the upper house, the Senate, are also up for election on Saturday. House and Senate races use slightly different preferential voting systems.

 

[Cristo Rei]

Australia is going to descend into the pits faster than ever before

 

[Josho]

What you are describing where you are living is no different in what goes on over here.THis Albo is like a brother of ScoMo, they might be part of the established political tag team...Liberal to Labor Party and Labor to Liberal Pary..all the same...amd the beat goes on..all in it for the world new order of slavery.

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Australia’s election: ScoMo, Albo and everything else you need to know

By Michael E. Miller
May 20, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
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Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party, left, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the Liberal Party in a May 8 debate in Sydney. (Photographer: Pool/Getty Images)

SYDNEY — After a snarky, slippery, six-week sprint of a campaign, Australians will decide Saturday who will govern the country for the next three years. Polls show a close race between the ruling conservative coalition, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and the center-left Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese.

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The election comes at a time of growing anxiety Down Under, with rising inflation undercutting a strong economy and an increasingly assertive China stirring fear in the region. Years of drought, bush fires and floods have boosted concerns over climate change, although the major parties have mostly shied away from the issue.

Instead, the election is shaping up as a referendum on Morrison and his Liberal-National coalition, which has been in power for almost a decade. The prime minister is trailing in the polls, but he defied them in 2019.

Who are the candidates?

Morrison, 54, became prime minister in 2018, when the coalition turned on then-leader Malcolm Turnbull over his calls for action on climate change. Morrison, in contrast, is a staunch backer of Australia’s coal industry. As treasurer, he once brought a lump of coal into Parliament, passed it around and told fellow lawmakers, “Don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you.”

Scott Morrison brings a chunk of coal into Parliament

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In February 2017, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, then treasurer, brought a chunk of coal into Parliament to support the mining industry. (Video: Australian Parliament House via Storyful)

ScoMo, as the prime minister is known here, is a former marketing executive who bills himself as a sports-loving family man from Sydney’s southern suburbs. Yet he’s also skilled at pithy takedowns of political opponents. A year ago, he appeared to be cruising toward reelection, thanks to Australia’s early success in keeping out the coronavirus. But a slow vaccine rollout and outbreaks of the delta and omicron variants renewed criticism over his crisis management — a subject that first flared when Morrison went on vacation during devastating bush fires in 2019 and 2020.

The Twitter account defending Australian democracy

Albanese, 59, is a longtime member of his party’s progressive wing. Albo — few here escape the Australian love for abbreviation — grew up in public housing in working-class inner Sydney. Despite a quarter-century in Parliament and three years as party leader, he started the campaign as a relative unknown. One reason was his party’s decision not to challenge crucial legislation during the coronavirus pandemic, which left the spotlight to Morrison and state leaders. But Albanese also has run a small-target campaign, paring back some of Labor’s more divisive policies — such as cuts to carbon emissions — and eschewing others to avoid a repeat of the party’s 2019 defeat.

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Albanese speaks to reporters at a manufacturing plant in Perth on May 17. (Lukas Coch/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Albanese’s attempt to introduce himself was undermined by a stumbling start to his campaign. On his first day on the trail, he flubbed questions about the unemployment and cash rates. Then he tested positive for the coronavirus, putting him in isolation for a week as his opponent toured the country.

But Albanese recovered — from covid and his missteps — and performed well at three debates. Most recently, it is the prime minister who slipped, literally, when he accidentally squashed a 7-year-old during a soccer game.

Labor looks likelier. The party has topped polls consistently since Morrison called the election in April, and the coalition’s current razor-thin majority means the opposition need pick up only seven seats in the House of Representatives to form a government. A major poll released 10 days before election day predicted Labor would win almost twice that number.


More recent surveys, however, show the party’s lead narrowing to a few percentage points. And Morrison’s “miracle” comeback in 2019 has left analysts wary of putting too much faith in the projections.

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The Teal independents actually got rid of 2 left wing Liberals Tim Wilson and Trent Zimmerman.

 

[APAK]

The Teal independents actually got rid of 2 left wing Liberals Tim Wilson and Trent Zimmerman.

I see a real agenda afoot..not surprising ..for the coalition...

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Independents put Liberal MPs Josh Frydenberg, Trent Zimmerman, Dave Sharma, Tim Wilson at risk
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These goal seats for the Coalition embrace Gilmore and Parramatta in NSW, McEwen in Victoria and even Blair in Queensland, the place Labor started the marketing campaign hoping to win three or 4 seats. Strategists on each side now imagine it is potential no seats will change palms in Queensland.

Sources near the treasurer insisted he isn’t taking his seat with no consideration however conceded Morrison’s private standing was “poisonous” with inside city voters and that it might come right down to 500 votes, with a really actual probability the person usually touted as the following chief of the Liberals might lose his seat.

Labor’s Catherine Renshaw, Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman and Impartial Kylie Tink on the North Sydney debate.Credit score:Richard Dobson

If Frydenberg’s main vote had been to fall under 46 or 47 per cent, Liberals imagine, it could be tough for the Treasurer to retain the seat on choice flows.

Frydenberg stated the Kooyong contest might be tight and “each vote will depend”.

“I’m up towards a former long-standing member of the Labor Social gathering in Monique Ryan who’s asking individuals for his or her vote however isn’t ready to inform them how she is going to vote in a hung parliament – a hung parliament which can convey uncertainty and instability . ”

Voters in Kooyong had been confronted on Sunday with a bust of the prime minister product of coal perched outdoors the treasurer’s voters workplace as a part of a stunt by the left-wing foyer group GetUp.

These The Sunday Age spoke to had blended views about how they’d vote.

Retiree Jeanette Botham, 72, is a long-suffering Labor voter who has lived within the space for 50 years and plans to allocate her preferences to the unbiased within the hope that she will be able to unseat Frydenberg.

Labor has by no means held the seat and the occasion received fewer main votes on the final election than the Greens, who had a star candidate in Julian Burnside.

“It has been irritating for years being a Labor supporter,” she stated. “I have no idea whether or not [Ryan’s] going to win, however I feel it is good that somebody is pushing him, put it that approach, ”Botham stated.

She nominated local weather change, the price of dwelling and funding for public colleges because the necessary coverage points for her: “The quantity of personal colleges round right here,” she stated. “We might do with a bit [more] for public schooling. ″ ⁣

Standing at Camberwell Junction, beneath competing billboards for each candidates, Botham stated she thought locals had been bored with Frydenberg.

“I do not know what he presents, I do not know what the Liberal Social gathering presents below Morrison, to be completely sincere,” she stated. “This provides individuals an opportunity to perhaps rethink it [voting Liberal]. ″ ⁣

Liberal voter Russell O’Connell, 61, a enterprise proprietor who lives in Balwyn, believes Frydenberg is being challenged by a bunch of independents who will return to Labor if they’ve the stability of energy.

“Kooyong voters wouldn’t be pleased about that, he stated, and may know Ryan’s intentions earlier than polling day.

“Lots of people that she appeals to, that are most likely females which might be just like her in appears to be like and demographic, suppose that she’s an amazing girl,” he stated. “However really you do understand that when you vote for her, you vote for Labor. If you happen to stated that to them, they’d say ‘oh no, no we do not [vote that way]’. ″ ⁣

O’Connell stated Frydenberg needs to be returned to parliament as a result of he “understands the group and enterprise”.

“We’re not fooled by the truth that she [Ryan] has received billboards all over the place, ”he stated.

Fellow businessman Simon Holmes, 45, stated that he had all the time voted Liberal however was dissatisfied by Australian politics as a complete. “I do not suppose we now have any robust leaders,” he stated. “I do really feel there’s a robust transfer to the independents. ″ ⁣

Holmes stated the very last thing he wished to see was a hung parliament, preferring one of many main events to win convincingly.

In North Sydney, Liberal Trent Zimmerman is taken into account probably the most at-risk of MPs dealing with a problem from the teal independents. Zimmerman has a margin of 9.three per cent however is in a three-cornered contest with unbiased Kylea Tink and Labor’s Catherine Renshaw.

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One senior NSW MP, who requested to not be named so they may focus on inner deliberations, stated: “Trent is the one we’re most frightened about in New South Wales [against teal candidates] however our largest drawback is Reid ”.

One cupboard member stated “it is completely potential we are going to win suburban seats, lose Kooyong and North Sydney and find yourself on 76 seats [the minimum required for majority government]”.

In Wentworth, which Dave Sharma received with a 1.three per cent margin over Kerryn Phelps in 2019, the incumbent now faces high-profile businesswoman Allegra Spender. Although the margin is far tighter on paper, the Liberals are extra assured of retaining the seat in comparison with North Sydney or Kooyong.

As one MP who has campaigned within the seat stated, “the aggro is not directed on the Liberal Social gathering, it is directed towards Morrison”.

And in Goldstein, which covers a few of bayside Melbourne, Tim Wilson is considered the most secure of the quarter from the problem introduced by former ABC journalist Zoe Daniel.

A Victorian MP acquainted with the marketing campaign on the bottom stated that “Tim is below severe strain” and that the seat was house to voters within the “post-material mental class who do not care in regards to the financial system, it is all in regards to the local weather”.

Nevertheless, the MP stated controversy over anti-Israel feedback made by members of Daniel’s marketing campaign group had ensured the Jewish group within the seat, which represents about seven per cent of the seat’s inhabitants, had swung behind Wilson.

In the meantime in Labor ranks there was a fury on Saturday over marketing campaign headquarters’ determination to launch the RoboDebt royal fee coverage late on Friday night time, after newspaper deadlines. A number of Labor MPs stated it was a missed alternative for the opposition to set the information agenda on Saturday.

“I am unable to imagine they left it so late,” one Labor MP stated.

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An analogous determination to not launch the occasion Veterans coverage to newspapers first every week beforehand – a decades-old apply – had additionally infuriated MPs and left them questioning the competence of workers within the marketing campaign media group.

“This says lots about our inner disorganization, that it is an issue,” the second Labor MP stated, including that it ought to have made a a lot greater splash on the day earlier than Anzac Day.

“Are you able to inform me who’s working the present in CHQ as a result of I do not know.”

with Tom Cowie

 

[Cristo Rei]

@Reggie Belafonte @Josho

Penny Wong is being sworn in as foreign minister... From here she can stab Albo in the back and become prime minister... True?

It looks like Reggie's prediction might come to fruition. Keep an eye on it

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

Stupid Aussies voting for this numpty...

I'm dreading the policies that are going to be brought in but most of all I'm dreading the next plandemic. Albo is likely to force it on everyone and lock us down even worse than Andrews did, freeze bank accounts and detain opposition without being heard in court. All while the left cheer it on. And even if I did want to defect to another country I can't travel without a stupid vaccine pass. Very uncertain times ahead.

So what happens to ScoMo now... He disappears like a ghost never to be seen again. Gets $350,000 a year for the rest of his life now, free air travel to anywhere and other greedy parks. Screw him. Screw all those politicians. That's tax payers money

Australia has been under a right wing government for about 10 years. They introduced of all kinds of crazy lgbt and feminist laws like gay marriage and its indoctrination upon children allowing them to change sex against the parents wishes.

So what's next for Australia... Ban Christianity. Zoophilia. Ban the bible. Dark days are ahead for this nation

Yes Elbo is just like a Nazi dictator creep show, how dare so dumb jerk like that dictate what he claims he will do to anyone who opposes him.
Elbo is going to unite the Nation ? Like Hitler did ? you do as Elbo wants or you will be treated just like the Germans who could not stand up to Hitler.
Most people think that all of Germans loved Hitler, but that's not true.

 

[Josho]

I bet ya it's mainly city slickers and inner suburbia that got Albo and Greens over the line, if you look at Tassie, most of them voted Lib, if you look at regional Vic, most voted NAT, same with regional NSW and regional QLD majority voted for Liberal Nationals and the big western chunk of Qld is Katter's, WA probably a different story, but NT even though they reckon Labor has both seats there was a 4% swing towards the Country Libs in Lingiari and thin margin which covers the 99.9% of the NT's land.

Yep have had a click through the results, most of the largest regional seats by landmass in VIC, NSW, QLD and even in SA, went to Liberals, Nationals, Liberal Nationals or Katter in West QLD, and even the Pilbara North Western Australia and Wheatbelt and along the South Coast to SA Border in WA went to Liberals, in Tassie Brandon (NW and Western Tas was won by Libs), Bass also likely to be won by Libs (NE Tassie) and Lyons mainly Central and Eastern Tassie is a tight race with only 800 votes separating Labor's lead on Liberals.

Proof that regional Aussies vote pretty differently to city folks.

 

[Brakelite]

Yep have had a click through the results, most of the largest regional seats by landmass in VIC, NSW, QLD and even in SA, went to Liberals, Nationals, Liberal Nationals or Katter in West QLD, and even the Pilbara North Western Australia and Wheatbelt and along the South Coast to SA Border in WA went to Liberals, in Tassie Brandon (NW and Western Tas was won by Libs), Bass also likely to be won by Libs (NE Tassie) and Lyons mainly Central and Eastern Tassie is a tight race with only 800 votes separating Labor's lead on Liberals.

Proof that regional Aussies vote pretty differently to city folks.

I wonder why that is? It's the same in NZ, and in the US. The so called Bible belt is conservative and predominantly rural, opposed to the more liberal cities in the north and the coasts. What makes rural folk generally more conservative than city folk who are more regressive and liberal? (I say regressive because progressive is a misnomer)

 

[Josho]

@Reggie Belafonte @Josho

Penny Wong is being sworn in as foreign minister... From here she can stab Albo in the back and become prime minister... True?

It looks like Reggie's prediction might come to fruition. Keep an eye on it

Lolz mate be careful what you wish for, she is in the Senate so she can't currently do that, the only way she could is step down from being a Senator, perhaps a lower house by-election happens somewhere with some other politician quitting the lower house, and then she contests for that position. That would be the only way she could do it within the next 3 years

 

[Josho]

I wonder why that is? It's the same in NZ, and in the US. The so called Bible belt is conservative and predominantly rural, opposed to the more liberal cities in the north and the coasts. What makes rural folk generally more conservative than city folk who are more regressive and liberal? (I say regressive because progressive is a misnomer)

Yet it's strange, as some of the Bible belts in Vic are around Northern suburbs like Tullamarine and Eastern Suburbs like Blackburn, also a bit of a Bible belt in Bendigo too, yet those electorates are going for Labor, still a slight chance Michael Sukkar may hold onto Deakin though.

 

[Cristo Rei]

Lolz mate be careful what you wish for, she is in the Senate so she can't currently do that, the only way she could is step down from being a Senator, perhaps a lower house by-election happens somewhere with some other politician quitting the lower house, and then she contests for that position. That would be the only way she could do it within the next 3 years

Hey I'm not wishing for any such thing I'm more worried than anything that RBs prediction is on course.

Isn't foreign minister a lower house position?
Well she has been made foreign minister today.

 

[Cristo Rei]

Yet it's strange, as some of the Bible belts in Vic are around Northern suburbs like Tullamarine and Eastern Suburbs like Blackburn, also a bit of a Bible belt in Bendigo too, yet those electorates are going for Labor, still a slight chance Michael Sukkar may hold onto Deakin though.

Tullamarine was thrown into the electorate of Marybournong for the first time I can remember. We're usually in Hume or Calwell or Brimbank I think. I get the councils and electorates mixed up.
Heaps of private schools in the area but I'm not sure that counts for much anymore

 

[Cristo Rei]

@Josho
Maybe you thought i was joking when i said Penny Wong is the foreign affairs minister. Look it up



How Penny Wong hopes to repair relations with China as she secures top role in Albanese government | Daily Mail Online



Now my knowledge of Australian politics isn't the best but from what i understand the foreign affairs minister is a part of the governments cabinet in the lower house... Is that right? Who better than her to sell Australia to China

Could this be the face of Australias next prime minister? @Reggie Belafonte? Are the knives already being sharpened?

I think these two episodes are worth watching after recent events

 

[Josho]

@Josho
Maybe you thought i was joking when i said Penny Wong is the foreign affairs minister. Look it up

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How Penny Wong hopes to repair relations with China as she secures top role in Albanese government | Daily Mail Online

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Now my knowledge of Australian politics isn't the best but from what i understand the foreign affairs minister is a part of the governments cabinet in the lower house... Is that right? Who better than her to sell Australia to China

Could this be the face of Australias next prime minister? @Reggie Belafonte? Are the knives already being sharpened?

I think these two episodes are worth watching after recent events

Nope, you ain't joking she seriously is.

Marise Payne the last foreign affairs minister was also a Senator.

Just messing around in some other forums, saying the Labor gov is already broken because most Aussie battery metal stocks went down today on their first day. Lolz.

On a serious note, we are probably gonna see a recession under this government, left wing governments have had poor records in the last 3 decades with recessions.

 

[Cristo Rei]

Nope, you ain't joking she seriously is.

Marise Payne the last foreign affairs minister was also a Senator.

Just messing around in some other forums, saying the Labor gov is already broken because most Aussie battery metal stocks went down today on their first day. Lolz.

On a serious note, we are probably gonna see a recession under this government, left wing governments have had poor records in the last 3 decades with recessions.

So now she can become PM, right?

 

[Cristo Rei]

Penny Wong knows Kung Fu.
Ive seen her in an old Chinese ninja movie with Jackie Chan.