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If a candidate like Josh loses his seat, the LNP are forever toast.
I like how John Carroll described the Climate 200 "Independents"; an orgy of virtue signalling. Diverse lot too
I expect an ALP win, especially given the large amount of pre-polling before ScoMo could claw back the gap, and fervently hope Kenneally loses.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
Did prepoll last night. Some fucking whack jobs running in my electorate
Got my democracy sausage around lunch time. Bit of a queue, but moved quickly enough and nice weather so in no rush.
Looked at who I would preference from least irritated by to eventual preferred winner, ensuring Greens go last. There are some genuine weirdos running. Not least of which are the Informed Medical Options Party, named as accurately as the Democratic People's Republic of Congo.
Click the link and check out the dumb shit they advocate for.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
Did prepoll last night. Some fucking whack jobs running in my electorate
Got my democracy sausage around lunch time. Bit of a queue, but moved quickly enough and nice weather so in no rush.
Looked at who I would preference from least irritated by to eventual preferred winner, ensuring Greens go last. There are some genuine weirdos running. Not least of which are the Informed Medical Options Party, named as accurately as the Democratic People's Republic of Congo.
Click the link and check out the dumb shit they advocate for.
What was the vibe for Pocock when you went out?
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
Click the link and check out the dumb shit they advocate for.
Ah yes. I had some antivax clown called "Bosi" who might as well be them.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Aussie Politics:
@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
Did prepoll last night. Some fucking whack jobs running in my electorate
Got my democracy sausage around lunch time. Bit of a queue, but moved quickly enough and nice weather so in no rush.
Looked at who I would preference from least irritated by to eventual preferred winner, ensuring Greens go last. There are some genuine weirdos running. Not least of which are the Informed Medical Options Party, named as accurately as the Democratic People's Republic of Congo.
Click the link and check out the dumb shit they advocate for.
What was the vibe for Pocock when you went out?
He's got a lot of supporters on the ground. Whether that translates is something else, but this feels like the best possible chance for a high profile independent.
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Well that was pretty emphatic. But thoroughly deserved, given the wretched performance over the last few years from this gurning coalfelcher and his rancid brew of corruption, incompetence and cruelty. Bit sad that most of us are happier about who's lost than who's won, but I'll take it.
Frydenburg losing, which looks likely, is a disaster for the Libs. Their immediate future looks bleak. If they pick Dutton as leader then the old broad church Liberal party is surely dead and buried. He might pull back some votes from UAP / ON, but can't see them winning back any of those blue ribbon seats.
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@gibbon-rib this sort of loss the best thing for the liberal party. If they're smart, they might use the next 3 years to start getting further away from Barnaby Joyce, and find other allies on the crossbench.
Not with the spud in charge tho.
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I'm in Goldstein, where Tim Wilson lost to a "teal" independent. Wilson spent the whole campaign whining that it was a campaign funded and run by outsiders, coming into sensible conservative bayside and imposing their Brunswick values. Absolute horseshit (which to be fair is very much on brand for Wilson), you just had to walk around the area and count the corflutes and tshirts to know it was a big community campaign.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@gibbon-rib this sort of loss the best thing for the liberal party. If they're smart, they might use the next 3 years to start getting further away from Barnaby Joyce, and find other allies on the crossbench.
Not with the spud in charge tho.
I hope they do. But they might go the other way, move further right and more trumpy (which would move them away from their traditional small-l-liberal and less small-c-conservative origins).
They've got a similar dilemma to the one Labor's faced for a while, trying to keep the different parts of their base happy. But they've only got themselves to blame for the climate change component of that, they happily doubled down on the science denial for years and they're paying the price now.
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@gibbon-rib might be the end of two-party politics for a bit
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Meh, Queenslanders are used to pollies like Bob Katter, Barnaby Joyce, Clive Palmer and Pauline The Racist Chipshop Lady. The Greens are the reserved, sensible option next to that lot.I don't think it's that surprising. The biggest issue by far this election is climate change change, and government corruption was a big one too. If that's your biggest concern who else are you going vote for if you don't have a decent independent in your area? Labor are a vacuum, they're too scared to have any policies in case they get weaponised against them. The rest of the ballot sheet is probably Animal Justice, Legalise Cannabis and The Chinese Are Coming To Vaxx Your Kids.
Plus the greens aren't going to win.
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@gibbon-rib said in Aussie Politics:
Meh, Queenslanders are used to pollies like Bob Katter, Barnaby Joyce, Clive Palmer and Pauline The Racist Chipshop Lady. The Greens are the reserved, sensible option next to that lot.
Katter et al, as bad as they are, aren't calling for Australia to destroy its economy.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@gibbon-rib said in Aussie Politics:
Meh, Queenslanders are used to pollies like Bob Katter, Barnaby Joyce, Clive Palmer and Pauline The Racist Chipshop Lady. The Greens are the reserved, sensible option next to that lot.
Katter et al, as bad as they are, aren't calling for Australia to destroy its economy.
Debatable. Clive Palmer thinks he can unilaterally cap mortgage interest rates, and mad Bob would probably spend half the national budget on new roads for Kennedy.
Exxon, Chevron etc paying $0 tax isn't a great look
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
Yeah, that's the mood in Goldstein, we're just furious about how touchy-feely and woke Scomo and Dutton have become
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