Australia re-elects the Liberals

Thecaferacer · 18 May 2019 at 22:06

This one interests me, not only because I am half Australian, but because the media and polls were predicting a landslide for the left and Labour (as they did for a some very recent big elections) I must admit the result surprised me

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...lls-bill-shorten-scott-morrison-a8919726.html

So again, it appears the quiet conservative majority has spoken over a very vocal left leaning media. Does the media and dubious polling actually hinder the left?

Thecaferacer · 18 May 2019 at 23:51

Diddums said:
BURN UNIT TO AISLE 4! BURN UNIT TO AISLE 4!

I'm unable to give a serious answer to a thread where the OP can't spell re-elects properly

Please don't let a hyphen prevent you from sharing your valued opinion.

Thecaferacer · 18 May 2019 at 23:59

Diddums said:
You can insert a hyphen anywhere in "relects" and it still won't make sense, sorry dude

Here you go....just for you .

Thecaferacer · 19 May 2019 at 00:16

chroniclard said:
Majority wanted a nice central liberal party, what are we arguing about....?

*we should also have mandatory voting.

The Liberals are centre-right so the equivalent of our Conservatives.

Thecaferacer · 20 May 2019 at 18:40

This thread was more to do with the media reporting. Here in the UK it was being reported as a done deal that Labour would win, despite the closeness of the actual polls. There was even a report of bookies paying out on the Labour win.

This has been reflected by the mad dash now to understand why the polls and exit polls got it so wrong.