Posted on 05/21/2022 6:51:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I haven’t even looked at the Senate yet - it takes so long to get an accurate idea of the Senate under the best of conditions, so I haven’t even bothered with that yet.
I do think a lot of people are going to have serious Albanese regret. I honestly don’t know how fast it will happen. A lot really depends on how much he delegates - during the election he has been forced to be front and centre. Normally, he’s not - he delegates a hell of a lot.
How did the right wing Clive Palmer led United Australia Party do this time?
Their leaders were the most vocal against the long lockdowns and forced vaccinations.
Hopefully a few non greenie senators will blunt initial Labor/ greenie zealotry. Fingers crossed
They got about 4.7% of the vote which is more than they got last time, I think, but less than One Nation. They were a bit more successful in some of the seats that were most affected by lockdowns, but still only about 10% of the vote in those from what I've read.
The biggest loss to the country in my opinion is Dutton. He was the best Defence minister we’ve had in decades and the kind of one you needed given the current strategic environment. Now it looks like he’ll be stuck leading the Libs in opposition while they tear themselves apart and decide to drift further away from their conservative base.
I wish Morrison the best. He got along well with Trump, and enjoyed his visit to the US. The Aussies are damn screwed. 24’ will be a new era for us, and we all just need to hang on for 2 more years.
The Cons got thrown out over how they did nothing while Australia got shut down and the police ran rampant over civil rights.
Serves them right.
The myth is that Labor is for the working man, and the conservative Liberal Party is for the rich. That myth is busted. The elite rich have voted for the Greens and Labor. They want to save the planet by fighting global warming, you know...the threat that doesn’t exist.
btw, you do know that the Liberal Party is the right wing, conservative side of politics in Oz?
‘Liberal’ in Oz doesn’t have the same meaning as in your part of the world.
Those ‘brutal, crushing lockdowns’ were carried out by the LEFT State Governments. The Federal government in Australia had no jurisdiction over the various State Government Health directives.
The Federal Government during the pandemic was the conservative coalition.
Yeah
Some good points. This was a city verse country outcome. And by city I don’t mean your average working class suburbanite. They will be in the same boat with those not outside the electorates who have rejected conservatism for global do gooderism with climate change religion a central plank. The collision between Labor trying to balance the aspirations of its’ primary voters and appeasing the poodle walking ,chardonnay swilling independants hellbent on policy antithetical to the average worker will cause Labor honeymoon to be short. If I was the new Liberal leader I would hammer home this divide. Ozzies outside of the urban innner city areas will be fertile ground
‘those outside the electorates’ I should say.
In my electorate there are a lot of coal miners. Most voted Labor as they have for generations. Many are stunned that their lively hoods could be on the chopping block due to urban do gooders they already viewed as suspect. Now they have even more reason to loathe these wealthy overlords who are going to tell them how to live and work. The fun will start pretty quickly in my opinion.
Too right, mate!
Red China’s gain. Let’s find out how much commie money went to the Labor Party, Red fronts and crooked leftist politicians.
Watch for more drugs to enter Australia illegally, and more pressure for port rights/docking rights and resupply.
Remember, HAnoi’s top propagandist during the Vietnam war was Australian CP member Wilfred Burchett (also identified as a Soviet KGB by George Karlin, ex KGB agent, before the Sen. Internal Security Subc., Sen Judiciary Com. In the early 70s.
The once conservative, common-sense ‘Liberals’ went woke. Very drastic changes since the days of Tony Abbot just 7 years ago.
RE: Very drastic changes since the days of Tony Abbot just 7 years ago.
Yes, an even more drastic change since the time of the great John Howard, one of Australia’s longest serving prime minister.
Yessss.....in fact, John Howard is the PM I was thinking of...I believe he goes back to the turn of the century.
I’ve done lots of business with perfectly sane Aussie’s since then, but do not understand what’s gripped the rest of the country.
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