Baloo said:
Dear kind affable Sophie, them lemons sure taste sweet:
Never mind, Malcolm will find you another job somewhere
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Dear kind affable Sophie, them lemons sure taste sweet:
Never mind, Malcolm will find you another job somewhere
Close game but now Libs going up a gear. Labor are like us, all hope but fail in the end. Too many chip kicks.
Aust electoral commission website is coalition 57 and labour 56 at the moment - hung parliament highly possible
Andrew Bolt going off his dial - very humourous. Life must be tough for him at the moment, loathing both parties and leaders.
It is bizarre. ALP will likely lose but claim victory - reminds of the Australian soccer team when playing at the World Cup.Tigers of Old said:
jb03 said:
He's right though, Turnbull's been a disaster. There aren't enough votes in the political middle.
A narrow Lib/Nat win with a potentially worse Senate. The major party's, particularly Labor's, primary vote continues to tank. The electorate is moving away from the old party political divide where people choose parties the way they choose sporting teams. Issues are much more informative. The parties response has been to appeal to their "base" and shore up their rusted on supporters while missing the point on the things the electorate are trying to tell them. This is why The Greens are pulling votes from both sides. No one really wants them to get any bigger. Give the people a better choice and their vote will crumble.
To match the voting peculiarities the parties would need to cleave off into smaller parties comprised of the members that agree on major issues. Refugees, Climate Change policies, immigration, tax, welfare, infrastructure etc. There are many members in both major parties who disagree with their leadership over asylum seekers, marriage equality and the issues above. They need to break off and give voters a less compromised choice. They can come together to deal as a block after the election. The government would be comprised of a coalition of smaller parties where the members are free to advocate for the issues they feel strongly about and which won them their seats.
A multicoloured government. A rainbow coalition if you like.
To match the voting peculiarities the parties would need to cleave off into smaller parties comprised of the members that agree on major issues. Refugees, Climate Change policies, immigration, tax, welfare, infrastructure etc. There are many members in both major parties who disagree with their leadership over asylum seekers, marriage equality and the issues above. They need to break off and give voters a less compromised choice. They can come together to deal as a block after the election. The government would be comprised of a coalition of smaller parties where the members are free to advocate for the issues they feel strongly about and which won them their seats.
A multicoloured government. A rainbow coalition if you like.
KnightersRevenge said:
Think it's a reflection of society at large and not a positive development at all. People expect to be offered choices in everything and are far less likely these days to support all of their preferred party's policies. Representative of a fracturing nation IMO.
LeeToRainesToRoach said:
I don't reckon. Turnbull won because Abbott's extremeism was a disaster. Labor would have walked in if he'd stayed. Bolt is off his head. He looked drunk in that you-tube baloo posted