At least I enjoyed the Eurovision brand of populist politics (especially since I accepted we were never a chance, despite clearly being top three for charisma/presentation).
Well, yes, Victoria was irrelevant, and calls for Victoria to have swung more to the ALP areâŚsilly.
What is it in Queensland 24-6? Something like that?
If thatâs even 19-11 then the ALP win.
And Iâm tired of people saying, âoh boo-hoo, donât call them racists or stupid.â
Theyâve given us Hanson, Palmer, Anning, Katter, Malcolm Roberts looks like returningâŚ
At some point youâre judged by your choices.
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That was a pie in the sky policy. They ran it because they knew it would never happen yet could get millage out of it and seem progressive. The state government would need to front up 2 billion to get the cash offered by the libs. The actual fast trains werenât included in the price, thats just for the rail upgrade. They knew the state government wouldnât match that sort of money.
Studies also showed that you could only run one train on the line at a time as the short distance with the number of stations, a second train would have to slow and stop behind the first train when it is at a station. The main problem on this line is not speed, but overcrowding. a fast train would have made that worse.
The libs may as well have promised a rocket ship to melbourne.
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Yeah thereâs zero chance of a 35min Geelong-Melbourne trip, unless youâre tunneling from Little River to the CBD, or making a fleet of helicopters that work the same way those blue bikes do.
It would need itâs own dedicated line through the western suburbs. In addition to the one that was JUST built.
I dont think Labour made the case for comminity well being very well IMO.
They should have run ads of young people looking at auctions and saying even if I work for 40 years can I pay this off.
I know so many immigrant blue collar families who got ahead by negative gearing. Very risky to change the playing field.
It came off like Howard said. ALP want to spend up and let things get out of contol (Shorten failed to articulate what his policies would cost which was very damaging IMO ) and they are coming after your lifetime savings.
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Neoliberalism-lite defeated by neoliberalism; internet stunned at outcome. More at 11.
Iâve been harping on this for years, Labor have too much faith in the electorate. Humans are trash. Self-interest always wins.
Doesnât matter anyway. The only way to achieve meaningful socio-political change would be to kill the rich and redistribute their resources.
Fun fact: take the most recent BRW rich list, implement above policy, and every working Australian will get $20k. Tell me people wouldnât get on board with that.
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20k Iâm in.
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See?
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I wonder whether the inaccurate polling contributed to this outcome.
Because I think some of the more swinging voters donât like the idea that one party will have a dominant majorityâŚ
âŚnow in this election they kept being told that the ALP will romp it inâŚso they go into the voting booth, and go âIâll just vote for someone other than ALP, to balance things up againââŚand then wake up to find that theyâve all run to the same side of the boat!
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What a silly question.
The answer is depressing though.
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sigh
Iâm shattered that this result means exactly what you say, and even the ALP canât ignore last nightâs lesson.
Politics is going to be dumbed down, vision free, and nasty for the next three years.
Queensland has shown thatâs the only way to win.
The rest of the nation has to cater to these frigginâ morons, and that means stupid, mean, and relentless.
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I thought those ads of young and not so young people talking about job insecurities was very powerful. Put faces on a very real issue. The ALP need to hire the agency behind that ad for next time.
I donât think itâs silly to say that underperforming in Vic is a problem that needs looking at. They needed and expected to win 3-4 seats. Didnât happen. Thatâs not irrelevant. They must work out why. I could give them some hints.
Anyway, I voted Labor. 1st time since Gillard iirc. They lost. Iâll move on.
What has the world come to? Bacchus is now thinking like a Tory.
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Of course itâs irrelevant.
If we cut off Queensland and let them drift out to sea, which has always been my preferred option, then the ALP wins 60-50.
Itâs not just Victoria thatâs irrelevant, itâs everywhere other than Queensland.
People can go on about âthe quiet voicesâ all they like.
Itâs Queensland.
And that matters, I would suggest more than anything else going forward.
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Are you referring to ScuMo there?
This is the most corrupt Australian government in history - scandals after scandals from Paladin to Joyces jobs for mistress. Basically the public has rubberstamped this behaviour for the next three years - Libs can get away with anything now.
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What a friggin disaster.
Negativity & fear-mongering win out over policy & fairness.
The uber-wealthy are rewarded at the expense of everyone else.
And the dysfunctional rabble who crippled the NBN, ABC, CSIRO & NDIS have been told to keep at it.
The âfair goâ is long dead.
God bless Australia.
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Cool, Iâll tell the family weâre moving to Melbourne tommorow.
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