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Senor Tron posted:I'm fully expecting SA to buck the trend and end up as the only Coalition state government soon. That said all this Tesla stuff in the news the last couple of days is a wildcard, the power outages have really hurt the government but if they can get consistent messaging about how it's the result of Lib privatisation and they are doing things to fix it everything could flip. I don't think Andrews is going to survive but I'm also mired in endless pessimism and misery.
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Senor Tron posted:I'm fully expecting SA to buck the trend and end up as the only Coalition state government soon. That said all this Tesla stuff in the news the last couple of days is a wildcard, the power outages have really hurt the government but if they can get consistent messaging about how it's the result of Lib privatisation and they are doing things to fix it everything could flip. If Turnbull gets knifed and replaced with someone as staggeringly incompetent as Dutton, Federal politics are highly likely to reach down and have a large impact.
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Graic Gabtar posted:That will teach me for sticking with the abc. You ABC viewers all missed out on "The Crusher".  
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Holy gently caress Peter Abetz is out of a seat. loving so he should, spreading his poison around schools about the Safe Schools program. Go back to Germany you Nazi, and take Eric with you. JBP posted:I don't think Andrews is going to survive but I'm also mired in endless pessimism and misery.
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Don Dongington posted:The Aus media really wanted us to have our own mini Trumpocalypse, didn't they. I don't know what you mean https://twitter.com/latikambourke/status/840548349593964545
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Mark McGowan is walking up to the stage while loving ACDC's "TNT" plays, goddamn.
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He looks like he's doing his victory speech in a loving bingo hall though. At least put a corflute behind him or something...
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Bogan King posted:lol if you think nsw has any chance of moving to the ALP. Foley is a dud root and not going away any time soon. This man is correct. Luke Foley's biggest contribution to NSW politics was forcing the governemnt to overturn the Greyhound ban, the one policy that was widely supported by Labor voters, Green voters, and inner city Liberal voters. This was after he told them he would campaign to get it banned in the first place. He's got no spine, no conviction, and he actively made the state worse by opposing the one good thing Casino Mike did for zero gain.
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Don Dongington posted:He looks like he's doing his victory speech in a loving bingo hall though. At least put a corflute behind him or something...  this is  
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Oh gently caress he's in Rockingham. Probably is a bingo hall then! :v Did anyone else watching the speech hear boos from the crowd when he thanked the Union movement??
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I guess James Ashby isn't the political genius that he thought he was. Hey Pauline, there's a reason why the Liberals used him as bait against one of their own - HE'S COMPLETELY USELESS AT ANYTHING ELSE
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JBP posted:I don't think Andrews is going to survive but I'm also mired in endless pessimism and misery. That supposes Matthew Guy and his Hun choir has more influence than they actually have. The party machine knows how to spend money but no idea how to direct it effectively and I have no confidence that if Reith replaces Kroger they'll have any more effective leadership.
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Schlesische posted:If Turnbull gets knifed and replaced with someone as staggeringly incompetent as Dutton, Federal politics are highly likely to reach down and have a large impact. The SA Liberals are also the worst, aimless, most talent free branch of either major party in the country, so bad that they tried to talk Alexander Downer out of his retirement and into state politics to take the leadership (and failed badly even at that) - if this power thing works, and the move into the new hospital goes smoothly, they'll have essentially nothing to campaign on.
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NTRabbit posted:The SA Liberals are also the worst, aimless, most talent free branch of either major party in the country, so bad that they tried to talk Alexander Downer out of his retirement and into state politics to take the leadership (and failed badly even at that) - if this power thing works, and the move into the new hospital goes smoothly, they'll have essentially nothing to campaign on. Well once you move past "gently caress the poor" and "steal everything" then the only LNP policy left is "nothing" so I'd say they're working well within intended parameters.
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NPR Journalizard posted:Does anyone know how many votes needed for a full quota in the LC? Apparently not (I've been asking around too) Who's the blonde woman in the brown thing on ABC and why is she shilling so hard for the liberal party?
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Don Dongington posted:Apparently not (I've been asking around too) http://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa-election-2017/results/legislative-council/ gently caress me.
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NPR Journalizard posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa-election-2017/results/legislative-council/ I guess people in WA are also too dumb to vote for multiple houses in one election
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Not Satire:quote:WA Election 2017: Pauline Hanson visits measles-ridden One Nation senator Peter Georgiou http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wae...575a37140d9d290
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Tokamak posted:Imagine being an anti-fluoridation single issue voter. Imagine being someone who saw Senator CatHat and thought "yep, we need more of that sign me the gently caress up"
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Recoome posted:I guess people in WA are also too dumb to vote for multiple houses in one election I'd take the Legislative Council predictions with a pinch of salt. We still have GTV and all that convoluted poo poo so we won't have a real picture of the layout for a few days. Either way Labor are going to have a free ride for 4 years. The only question is whether they need Green votes in the upper house. Which would be best case scenario.
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Imagine being as pathetic as Lyle Shelton. BBJoey posted:now we all had fun tonight friends but it's important to remember the sad news as well: bill leak died only yesterday Pretty good end to the week so far, huh?
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Jehuti posted:Mark McGowan is walking up to the stage while loving ACDC's "TNT" plays, goddamn. Geoff Gallop was a massive AC/DC fan. He even had a cameo in this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316763/
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So the Liberal environment minister lost his seat in an election where building a highway through pristine wetlands was a major election issue. His replacement in the new ALP government was the head of the WA Conversation Council. Nice to have someone in that role who actually gives a poo poo about the environment. Also no-one can ever compare WA to QLD again.
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Don Dongington posted:He looks like he's doing his victory speech in a loving bingo hall though. At least put a corflute behind him or something... McGowan is the member for Rockingham, he sits in the Labor heartland of WA. Every seat around his is red. We don't have money for fancy corflutes. Also, I'm pretty sure that's our town hall. You big city snob.
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I'm looking forward to the Liberal right's response to this. Turns out all of the media comparisons between PHON and Trump/Brexit were a load of poo poo, and maybe lurching to the right isn't the saving throw they thought it was. I'm not sure this is going to empower Dutton a great deal, although it may still damage Turnbull if he tries to drop Budget 2014 Version 2.0 in May. I'm pretty sure they're still turbofucked, and being a byelection away from losing their lower house majority, it's gonna be a fun year.
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Konomex posted:McGowan is the member for Rockingham, he sits in the Labor heartland of WA. Every seat around his is red. Yeah I live in Wellard :P
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Don Dongington posted:I'm looking forward to the Liberal right's response to this. Turns out all of the media comparisons between PHON and Trump/Brexit were a load of poo poo, and maybe lurching to the right isn't the saving throw they thought it was. I think you'll find you're wrong, and moving to the Strength and Stability of the far right is the only answer. This SS foundation that supports Tony and the true members of the coalition is the way forward for Australia, not just now, but for the next thousand years.
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This election goes to show that if you're hosed, throwing money everywhere and grandstanding in the media isn't going to do poo poo. https://thewest.com.au/politics/sta...g-ng-b88378272z ^ That clown got his arse handed to him
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My local member, Rob Johnson (formerly lib, but left the party in 2016 and went Independant Lib for this election) managed to save Peter Katsambanis' rear end as the contesting Liberal because he helped split the vote against Labor, and in the end neither got in, so Libs got lucky in my electorate. Still suffered a 21.6% swing against, so he's got nothing to crow about. Further to the North, Jan Norberger, a guy who you literally hear nothing from until the election croped up, got completely obliterated. I have to say, I am loving this result more and more. Libs chucked out, and One Nation told to gently caress off. Good work, WA.
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