Wrageowrapper posted:

So it apparently seems somewhat likely that Jacquie Lambie will not only retain her senate spot but may also pick up another seat under her party down here in Tassie. I don't want to be one of those people that begrudges the electorate for their decisions but I really begrudge the electorate for their decisions.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

IIRC over 49.1% 2PP is the number the coalition have historically won elections with. It's been a while since I've seen the actual number so maybe the decimal point is slightly different but the actual point I'm making is that 50-50 or just under is definitely in the coalition's favour. But then again, I guess the trend against them could continue.

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The owner of a Collaroy beachfront home devastated by the Sydney storm, Tony Cagorksi, blames the council and state government for not building a seawall to protect his home.

The flooring business owner, who saved for years to buy the six-bedroom house at 1130 Pittwater Road for $2.4 million last year, has been forced to abandon his home because its foundations are crumbling after being battered by the storm and a seven-metre king tide.
"The council should have put up the seawall and they didn't. They are bumbling bureaucrats," Mr Cagorksi said.

"I have just paid over $100,000 in stamp duty for the home I live in and my money is going to schools and everything."

Warringah Council said it was not its responsibility to put up the seawall and residents had opposed it in a 2014 planning exercise.

"The history of the seawall has been long. The community was opposed to it, and in the last LEP [local environmental plan] prohibited the seawall," Warringah Council general manager Mark Ferguson said at a press conference on Pittwater Road on Tuesday.

"Council has endorsed it since then but we need residential support, and it is about a financial support."

The decision not to build the seawall was due to its impact on the sand, council said.

"But it was the loud surfers and greenies who opposed and defeated the seawall plans," Mr Cagorksi said.

Since the storm, the council, which is providing temporary housing for the evacuated owners along Pittwater Road, has been in discussions with owners about resurrecting the seawall project. Most residents have declined to comment to the media.

While it would come at a cost to owners, the Northern Beaches council administrator Dick Persson said he had the support of about 25 affected residents to pay for a seawall with some even agreeing to a levy.

Council also said it was discussing with residents about demolishing the houses that are teetering on the edge but a final decision has not been made.

Mr Cagorksi said he was concerned his insurance would not cover his loss if his house is demolished, after his neighbour's claim to insurer Youi was rejected.

"We are going to fight it, through media, and goodwill, and try and get them to cover it," he said.

The State Emergency Services has been sandbagging Collaroy Beach, in anticipation of another king tide.

The worst affected area is Pittwater Road but further north, many backyards have been eroded.

ewe2 posted:

The Oz is going Xenophon for slumlord offences


Haw. Only in writing. Then not writing at all. Notice the paranoia in the bolded bits, they're so transparent.

adamantium|wang posted:

cum_dumpster posted:

talk about your first world problems.

diddums

cum_dumpster posted:

and anime david is whinging it'll be delivered by a few parties instead of one state owned company

so again, diddums

CrazyTolradi posted:

But seriously, apart from having a stupid edgy name, how does the Sex Party differ from the Greens policy wise?

bigis posted:

So does auspol think the greens primary vote will go up or down?

I'm assuming up, Up, UP!!

Anidav posted:

If the Libs have a Primary Vote of 41 and the ALP 37. Who wins? Both primary votes are in the danger zone. Greens preferences bring the ALP to about 46-7%? Which means they need 4% from others to get past 50%.

drunkill posted:

SynthOrange posted:

uuuuuuuh

Tokamak posted:

Refer to every other broken promise a politician makes.

Anidav posted:

My bet is with swining voters backing ALP thinking Shorten won't win like Brexit voters. ALP minority incoming if 2-3 greens and 2 IND. All the ALP has to do is hit 70-71?

Anidav posted:

Sending prisoners to a rural location to do missions that earn citizenship points is literally an anime plot.

Anidav posted:

Newspoll 50 50 basically with a .5 movement to the ALP

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

No. There's only 30 seats left on the ABC counter. They need 18 of them to take a 76 seat majority and we know there's 2 or 3 unclaimed seats that will probably go Green or NXT.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Lack of posts tells me you're all fapping to the ABC telecast.

Zenithe posted:

Have you considered Rye July?

Buck Turgidson posted:

Anyone else think the patterning on the voting ballots looked kinda like cocks?

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Here's the thing though

If the Libs get 74 seats they're really likely to be the ones to form minority government

Do we really think the X-Factor is going to significantly moderate that government? I say no

Jonah Galtberg posted:

lol if you think the alternative will be a straight up vote on gay marriage rather than doing nothing and maintaining the status quo

Lid posted:

Liberals need 76 to govern, 77 because of a speaker

Theyre looking at 74

So they need cross benchers

They get Katter so they get 75

The other two are nick xenophon team and cathy mcgowan and they need them both so unlikely to get both.

Labor cant get more than 75 no matter what.

Solemn Sloth posted:

I don't think there's any way that Labor knife Shorten. Then again, Labor are loving idiots.

NTRabbit posted:

I have a facebook 'friend' who is both a 'journalist' (who once complained Murdoch's very own Adelaide Advertiser was pro-Labour and that's why they wouldn't hire her), and a hardcore Liberal, who was doing the HTV thing for her personal hero, and I'm pretty sure unrequited love interest Chris Pyne, and the Lib staffers/vols on her posts think they've actually lost Grey to NXT despite what the ABC is saying

NTRabbit posted:

Apparently the preferences are favouring NXT far more heavily than Green predicted, which he noted himself earlier, these Lib people think NXT is currently holding a narrow 2PP lead because of them, rather than losing 52-48 as the ABC has.