Australian Federal Election
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<p>Yep - I get it ;)</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/results/list/?selector=indoubt&sort=latest'>http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/results/list/?selector=indoubt&sort=latest</a></p>
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<p>Looks like a couple of seats have been decided in the last 24 hours, so at the moment we have:</p>
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<p>68 Coalition</p>
<p>67 ALP</p>
<p>5 other - 1 Green, 2 independents, 1 NXT, 1 Katter</p>
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<p>The 10 seats left in doubt look like going:</p>
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<p>5 x ALP</p>
<p>4 x L/NP</p>
<p>1 x NXT</p>
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<p>So we'll have both majors with 72 each, and a crossbench of 6 including Kooky Katter, the 2 Angry South Australians, and old hand Wilke, along with Cathy McGowan in the appropriately named "Indi" electorate.</p>
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<p>Bandt will probably just go for beers with DiNatale and think about what they can have a shot at.</p>
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<p>That's interesting. So the postal/pre-polls have gone towards the ALP? That's against tradition, and certainly against Malcolm's expectation. </p> -
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<p>That's interesting. So the postal/pre-polls have gone towards the ALP? That's against tradition, and certainly against Malcolm's expectation. </p>
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<p>One factor that kept cropping up was the number of pre-poll votes that were done being on the high side, so I don't think they can necessarily equate it with tradition.</p>
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<p>One reason for that is probably school holidays starting in NSW as of Saturday, and people have looked at their holiday schedule, given it a hearty "fuck that" and sent one through.</p> -
<p>Yeah which genius decided to have the election smack bang in the middle of the school holidays? The hardliners no doubt.</p>
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<p>The 5% don't care about school holidays mate...</p>
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<p>I can't do a facepalm smiley on my phone. Just pretend it's in this post.</p>
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<p>I'm just a simple chap....</p>
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<p>can one of you mudda pukkas please explaing the banner that the plane has towing over my head??</p> -
During the height of her previous incarnation as Australiad leading anti Asian uber bogan an interviewer asked her is she was a xenophobe . Because it sounds like a wog word to her she had no idea what it meant and said " please explain" . You couldn't have scripted it better and those two words followed her wherever she went.
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<p>Don't know how true this is. The source is the Couriermail:</p>
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<p><em>Turnbull had an arsenal of negative attack advertisements and scare campaigns at his disposal but chose not to use them because the party’s federal base believed it could win without them. </em></p>
<p><i>Furious Queensland Liberals say the <strong>federal officials relied too heavily on the Prime Minister’s personality cult and didn’t do enough to promote its brand or local candidates. </strong></i></p>
<p><i>The party didn’t activate scare campaigns over a potential new carbon tax, Bill Shorten’s involvement at the royal commission into union corruption, the prospect of house prices plunging under Labor’s negative gearing policy, or border protection… </i></p>
<p><i>Turnbull preferred to stick to his futuristic vision of Australia [and] selling the Government’s national economic plan [sic]… </i></p>
<p><i>Queensland LNP figures reacted with horror in the first week of the campaign when they saw a <strong>national mail out of postal vote application forms with a “presidential crest†that only mentioned Mr Turnbull. </strong></i></p>
<p><i>“Once we saw that ... <strong>there was no candidate name and no (party) logo on it, </strong>we went into meltdown,†a senior LNP source told The Courier-Mail. The state party later ignored directions from federal campaign headquarters and insisted the LNP logo and candidate images be included on direct mail to voters in the final weeks of the campaign....<br><br>
A… LNP source said Mr Turnbull found campaigning on national security or border protection “distastefulâ€, but added Mr Abbott would have ruthlessly used these issues if he were still PM. </i></p>
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<p>What's also interesting is that Turnbull's website has no mention of the liberals while Shorten has Labor front and centre.</p> -
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<p>During the height of her previous incarnation as Australiad leading anti Asian uber bogan an interviewer asked her is she was a xenophobe . Because it sounds like a wog word to her she had no idea what it meant and said " please explain" . You couldn't have scripted it better and those two words followed her wherever she went.</p>
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<p>Nice! I did not know that.</p>
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<p>This is the interview, I've linked to the specific bit, but it's instructive to watch the entire thing to get just how fucking stupid and racist this bitch is.</p>
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<p>Gotta say the NXT stuff is proof that Xenophon did his ground work - you look at the seats they're in, and even though the didn't win all of them, the swing towards them shows South Australians believed in them, particularly up against the Libs</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/results/list/?selector=SA&sort=latest'>http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/results/list/?selector=SA&sort=latest</a></p>
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<p>Of course, Jamie Briggs got everyone offside with his shenanigans in HK, so Mayo was pretty much a free kick, but they're capturing a fair bit of the electorate in the land of the Crow Eater.</p> -
<p>That's weird - in the last couple of hours, Grey in SA has gone from NXT ahead 55.2% to NXT ahead 45.7%. Maybe those postal votes are now coming in hard for the other candidates? Its a bloody big electorate as I said before, so probably a few people in outlying areas would take some time to get their votes into the AEC.</p>
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<p>Yep reckon the postal votes are going through the system now - the NXT is now only sitting on 8.4% and its now back to Liberal retention status, as well as no longer In Doubt.</p>
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<p>The remaining 9 In Doubt seats are all in the 51st percentile, so its getting tight as a fish's up in there. Mal pulls 7 of those and he gets to 76, and forms majority government.</p> -
<p>Well, guess that had to wait for the mail 900,000 square km is quite the mail run ;)</p>
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<p>For those who haven't looked at the map I linked earlier - this is the size of Grey. Its nearly about three times the land mass of NZ :)</p>
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<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Division_of_GREY_2016.png" alt="Division_of_GREY_2016.png"></p>
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<p>Now 8 seats in doubt, Libs on 70, with 3 looking likely to go their way. Nearly there, Mal :)</p> -
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Well, guess that had to wait for the mail 900,000 square km is quite the mail run ;)<br><br>
For those who haven't looked at the map I linked earlier - this is the size of Grey. Its nearly about three times the land mass of NZ :)<br><br><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Division_of_GREY_2016.png" alt="Division_of_GREY_2016.png"><br><br><br><br>
Now 8 seats in doubt, Libs on 70, with 3 looking likely to go their way. Nearly there, Mal :)</p></blockquote>
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It's not all desert though? There's a few towns in that lot around the Gulf(s) and on the Peninsulas -
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<p>It's not all desert though? There's a few towns in that lot around the Gulf(s) and on the Peninsulas</p>
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<p>Mainly down south. A few up north with a handful of votes.</p>