A reasonably fair summary of the game so far:
It will be interesting to see if the coalition survives, there is even talk of the Liberal Party splitting. It has always been the case that the two major parties fight for the middle ground but now the moderates in the Liberal Party have been wiped out by the Independents will the party move further right and be unelectable?
Whatever happens the National Party will have a bigger say in the coalition as the numbers change.
I think people viewed the Liberals as hopeless during the Bush fires and the floods and that it was the states that saved us during the pandemic. Scotty was held captive by the right, was useless on gender issues and little understanding of what the average Australian thought. Safe Liberal seats have been taken by Independents, all of whom are women.
The Labor vote actually fell too, both parties are on the nose, you can’t parachute in a factional warrior as has been proved in Parramatta. Australians expect their MP to live in their seat.
ScoMo was a tyrannical leader and quite rightly got booted out be democracy.
Unfortunately in this case I think it’d gone from bad to worse
Normally I wouldn’t care, it never has made much difference to me which party is in power, over time I have benefited from policies made by both Labor and the Coalition. As I said they tend to fight over the middle ground, when they move too far left or right they get chucked out on their ear - there are parties for the right and left because of the preferential voting system
It was definitely time for a change, the Liberals had no absolutely policies at the last election other than getting a surplus and an integrity commission they failed to do both, they had become captive to the ideologues from the right and the National Party. Scotty was particularly inept at dealing with people and problems, quick to try to shift the blame, didn’t order vaccines when they were offered, alienated the French government and didn’t support smaller nations in our region.
I hope the cross bench will have a big moderating influence on government policies as they do in the Senate.
The analysis of voting so far, BTW Labor got fewer votes than the Coalition and less than three years ago but both parties lost votes to the Greens and Independents who received record votes.
I think it’s a great result.Reflects more the population.It’s not all white conservative men.
but it’s not a free democracy with compulsory voting?
good point.The voting system looks very complicated to me.I don’t think anyone would bother if they didn’t have too.
You’ll doubtless be agog with excitement waiting to know who will control the Senate. Labor won’t control the Senate but they will have a good cross bench to work with.
Two things, it is not compulsory to vote but it is compulsory to attend and get your name crossed off.
Secondly it is like jury duty - a civic duty. Would you want to be tried before a jury of volunteers? Likewise no one complains about the result of an election because everybody had the chance to vote.
With freedom comes responsibility. I am very much in favour of compulsory voting.
In my opinion the electoral system here is very good.
There are a lot of worse ways of being governed.
ok so if you don’t attend and vote and get as fine it is not compulsory to pay it?
What are you talking about? and what does it have to do with the change of government?
Why? That has nothing to do with democracy.
When Albo was sworn in yesterday as PM four other ministers were sworn in with him.
Richard Marles is Deputy PM and currently acting as PM while Albo attends the Quad Conference in Japan.
Penny Wong has been sworn in as the Foreign Affairs Minister; She is also in Japan at the Quad Conference…
Jim Chalmers has been sworn in as Treasurer and Katy Gallagher as Finance Minister,
The full cabinet will be sworn in once the Labor caucus meets next week.
Looks like Mr Potatohead is certain to be the new Liberal Party leader. He is a member of the Liberal’s right faction.
I must admit I liked Katy Gallagher’s catty comment which went something like, “If the Liberal Party thinks Peter Dutton is the answer they must have misunderstood the question.” The problem for the Libs is that Dutton is a symptom of why they were decimated in the election but there is no chance of a moderate getting the job.
At the moment Labor is one seat short of being able to govern in their own right. It largely depends who comes second and third in some key seats where voting is neck and neck. If the Greens come third then second place Labor will win on preferences, if the Liberals come third again Labor will win on preferences but if Labor come third then the Greens will win on preferences. It is a very tight race in several seats with three candidates separated by a few votes.
Meanwhile billionaire Clice Palmer’s United Australia Party failed to win any seats and in Queensland received less votes than the Legalise Marijuana Party. Clive Palmer spent $100million on this election for no result at all.
They also had the most hilarious election poster ever:
That’s a picture of Craig Kelly BTW ex Liberal Party nutcase in chief
According to the ABC election computer Labor will have the 76 seats needed to govern in its own right having just secured the Melbourne seat of Macnamara with its sitting member having retained the seat after 83% of preferences counted. There are still two seats in doubt with only a handful of votes separating the candidates. Interesting discussion in this clip on how preferences are affecting the final votes.
Both major parties have had a kick in the guts this election with both the Coalition and Labor party votes down compared to the last election. The big winners are the Greens and the Teal Independents.
The latest Senate results show Labor will need the Greens, and potentially either Tasmanian Jacqui Lambie or incoming ACT senator David Pocock, to pass legislation.
Meanwhile both the Liberal party and the NAtionals have changed their leaders. The Libs apparently having learrned nothing have elevated right winger Peter Mr Potatohead Dutton to the leaders job, softening the blow somewhat by electing a female deputy.
The Nationals have removed Barnaby Joyce and replaced him with a more centralist (for the Nationals) David Littleproud. Even though their vote was down the Nationals returned all their sitting members. The new leaders said that the Nationals will support net zero by 2050 (Barnaby couldn’t even say the words “Net Zero”)
Counting continue in the 2022 Federal election but it looks like the composition of the lower house is finalised
Counting in the senate continues but the likely composition is becoming clearer
The big winners are clearly the Greens and the Liberals the big losers. One Nation lost ground, and the United Australia Party spend $100million for no result at all. Jackie Lambi will have someone to talk to in the Senate
At last the composition of the senate has been finalised, the Labor government will need the support of the Greens and one other senator to pass legislation.
The Liberals lost their third seat in Victoria and that bore Eric Abetz has failed to return to the senate
it will change again in a few months.
