State Government
- Thread starter Rosy
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Some interesting upper house results, a few regions with 2 seats going to minor parties. Libs got smashed, 7 seats - what a mess. I suppose the Nats got 4 but still, very bad result for them. Labor won the election convincingly but still have no majority in the upper house, but of a check there and reflects almost 43% of first preferences in the Lower House, but 39% in the Upper House. Just shows people do think about their votes if there are a fair proportion voting differently in the upper house, now they need to be thinking about their preferences too - above the line preferenceing is essential.
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Have to disagree, her voting pattern earned her the nickname of the 6th Green. Presents very well and will initially engage until you raise a point contrary to her stand and suddenly silence.
That's peduals a good outcome - I don't think it is good for the one party to have a majority across both houses regardless of who it isDavidSSS said:
ALP 52, me 26, Libs 22. Preference distribution stopped as someone hit 50. Guesstimates are something like 57-43, so took about 9% off ALP.KnightersRevenge said:
Labor already complacent. Jacinta Allan was interviewed on TV about the Punt Rd Swan St works and wasn't wearing hi vis or a hard hat.
I spent a lot of time at early voting in Werribee and the Derryn Hinch lady stood near me, and most of the time she said - upper house Derryn Hinch, hardly ever mentioned Catherine Cumming. Catherine appeared briefly for a couple of hours one day. The firm impression I got was that voters were voting for the party not Catherine.
Andrews has a mandate not to build it. its time the federal government acccepted this and released the money for other projects instead of holding Victoria to ransom.tigertim said:
But in saying that, its probably time both sides put their heads together and reached a compromise in the best intrests of all. While the EW Link shouldn't be built, maybe some of the $4 billion could be spent on upgrading the corridor between the eastern freeway and the zoo (eg. extra lanes, a couple of underpasses, etc) and the rest is released for the metro tunnel.
Personal viewpoint is we have State and Federal governments for a reason. The states are best served to decide what they want to do infrastructure wise. Matters of federal policies are for Canberra but feel the states should get to do as they plan not how the feds want them to. Ie the states request funding for set projects not the feds stating that they want a different project.tigertim said:
