This one's for the hardcore political tragic.
The count is on ABC24. Currently 0.1% counted with those being from the sticks.
I don't think they know what the individual booth trends are from the September election so at the moment it's just guesswork at this level of count.I give up Doc.....it is jumping all over the place.
Abbott said the 5.6% swing in the Senate election rerun was “typical” and one of voters’ main expectations was that the government would get rid of the carbon and mining taxes.
“As far as I am concerned the very strong take-out of this result is that the Australian people yet again have voted to get rid of the carbon tax and get rid of the mining tax, and I expect these taxes to be swiftly scrapped,” he said.
He would have been better to not comment on that at all, given the rise in the Greens' vote.Abbott stretching the truth
Abbott claims vindication on carbon tax from Senate vote in Western Australia
Love Clive's WTF quip about Abbott - Worse Than Fraser
Actually, he's right.Abbott stretching the truth
Abbott claims vindication on carbon tax from Senate vote in Western Australia
But it's small beer compared to Labor's drubbing.
Its vote crashed to below 22 per cent, costing it an experienced sitting female senator and electing instead, an unknown, accident-prone, arch-conservative, male trade-union boss in the twilight of his back-room career and with a social compass set firmly in the 1950s.
Abbott may have dodged a bullet but Bill Shorten has a lot more explaining to do.
I suspect that what happened is that dissatisfied Labor voters defected to the Greens and dissatisfied Lib/Nat voters defected to PUP. The Greens campaign has generally been praised in media commentary in that Scott Ludlum was much more public than either Labor/Liberal/PUP senate candidates and this too would have helped their vote to some extent.So the takeaway seems to be that people are disaffected with Labor and not to happy with the Libs. That swing to the Greens doesn't say much for Abbott's ability to read the electorate. Should we start the countdown to when Shorten gets rolled?
The gaping chasm of leadership in this country grows bigger each day.
I suspect that what happened is that dissatisfied Labor voters defected to the Greens and dissatisfied Lib/Nat voters defected to PUP. The Greens campaign has generally been praised in media commentary in that Scott Ludlum was much more public than either Labor/Liberal/PUP senate candidates and this too would have helped their vote to some extent.
The gaping chasm of leadership in this country grows bigger each day.
How right you are. When you look at Abbott, Shorten, Milne and now PUP Palmer, they are a sorry looking bunch indeed. I think we face a long period of just muddling through.
How right you are. When you look at Abbott, Shorten, Milne and now PUP Palmer, they are a sorry looking bunch indeed. I think we face a long period of just muddling through.
+1. I just cannot believe so many people could be sucked in by this egocentric self promoter.I wouldn't even include Palmer in that list. He's just a shiny object that people keep staring at. The major parties should hang their heads in shame that a guy like Palmer can win 12% of the vote on a platform of nothing.
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