Australian Election - Labor win

[[FnG]magnolia]

BBC

"After taking over from Malcolm Turnbull in 2018, Mr Morrison led Australia through a period dominated by natural disasters and the pandemic.
He had been expected to narrowly lose the election, but the result showed a collapse in his vote.
The Coalition shed crucial seats to so-called "teal" independents in traditional inner-city Liberal strongholds. They had campaigned on platforms of climate action and integrity in politics."

As always, the pressure is on the new thing to do better than the old thing but this is quite the shift in Australian politics. @Sankari - how are you, my dude?

 

[Dalandius]

All I know about Austrian politics comes from Juice Media (NSFW) and they are like neither the Liberal (S***)party or the Labour (S***lite) party.

 

[Uther]

All I know about Austrian politics comes from Juice Media (NSFW) and they are like neither the Liberal (S***)party or the Labour (S***lite) party.

That's nice but I believe the OP is talking about Australia.

 

[Doggie2k]

I have never seen so much corruption in a Australian federal government in all my life, I am so glad they are gone absolutley useless

So maybe now some grownups can implement proper environment laws and also deal with China.

 

[dlockers]

/patiently waiting for an Ozzy Man video to explain

 

[jsmoke]

fair dinkum mate

 

[Diddums]

Straya mate, love the place. Spiders can do one though, nasty *** don’t try and get round the swear filter ***.

 

[Semple]

After reading the other day about Australia's climate change struggles - flooding and severe heatwaves, which have the potential to make masses of land uninhabitable. It's hardly surprising to see their climate change denier PM get voted out.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

To follow up and noting that The Gruidain has bias:

click here I think

Australia’s rightwing Coalition government has lost power after nearly a decade in office, with Saturday’s election showing a sharp shift to progressive parties that will result in a Labor government under Anthony Albanese – though he may need the support of climate-focused independents or the Greens.

The Liberal party leader, Scott Morrison, conceded defeat just before 11pm AEST on Saturday, and announced he would step down as leader of his party.


“We’ve seen in our own politics a great deal of disruption as the people have voted today with major parties having one of the lowest primary votes we’ve ever seen,” Morrison told supporters at his election night reception in Sydney.

“I know about the upheaval that’s taking place in our nation. And I think it is important for our nation to heal and to move forward,” Morrison said.

 

[dlockers]

After reading the other day about Australia's climate change struggles - flooding and severe heatwaves, which have the potential to make masses of land uninhabitable. It's hardly surprising to see their climate change denier PM get voted out.

It is all pretty uninhabitable anyway; spiders.

 

[Sankari]

@[FnG]magnolia, this was a slow motion tsunami, correctly predicted by virtually all of the polls. Public sentiment has strongly supported Labor for some time now, as reflected in state and territory elections:

The Liberals were in power for ~10 years, and changed leaders twice during that time, so it's not surprising that voters had had enough. I give the federal government credit for handing the pandemic pretty well, but they became increasingly arrogant in the face of rising economic problems for which they had no answers that didn't simply involve lining the pockets of the privileged while overlooking harsh realities facing the average punter.

The big surprise is the rise of the independents, which is a clear sign that voters are tired of the two main parties' antics and want real change in politics. Labor has won the election, but at last count they only had 71 of the required 76 seats to form a majority government, so it's very likely that they'll need to form a minority government with support from the Greens and independents.

For the Liberals, there is no good news, only endless pain. They have lost a bunch of safe seats to Labor and the independents. Some of those seats are rock solid Liberal strongholds (Boothby has returned to Labor after 70 years!)

Last night I spent 9 hours counting paper ballots for the Australian Electoral Commission, and the numbers were just incredible. This is the worst wipeout the Liberals have seen in decades. With 67% of the vote counted, they still only have 51 seats. It's total annihilation, there will be panic at party headquarters this week.

Labor promised real action on climate change, and suggested that they might create a federal Independent Corruption Commission, which is something the Liberals had bitterly resisted. This is a huge issue for voters, because the Liberals have got away with a ton of dodgy stuff while they've been in power, and we want to see federal politicians held to account properly at last.

I voted Labor, though wouldn't have made much difference if I hadn't since I'm in a safe Labor seat.

 

[Efour]

Exports 100m dollars worth of coal this year, cries about climate change.

Isn't Australia like the 3rd or 4th biggest coal exporter on the planet?

Every country with a free democracy is going to flip after COVID. People have had enough.

 

[Uther]

People have had enough.

I'd like to think so. Maybe people have to go through some pain to bring them to their senses.

 

[mid_gen]

Exports 100m dollars worth of coal this year, cries about climate change.

Isn't Australia like the 3rd or 4th biggest coal exporter on the planet?

This idiocy is why the government has just been booted out.

Of all the countries on earth that has the capacity to lead the world on renewables, its Australia. Its absolutely brain-dead they've not been doing it, while the country is literally on fire half the time.

 

[Sankari]

Australian politics is good fun. Here's one of the independents:

And here's a message for our ex-PM in the spice aisle of a supermarket:

 

[Sankari]

Exports 100m dollars worth of coal this year, cries about climate change.

Isn't Australia like the 3rd or 4th biggest coal exporter on the planet?

Yes, we're a huge coal exporter, and Albanese has said he has no plans to change that because the industry has 50,000 employees and generates a massive amount of money.

What we really need to do is stop digging up coal coal and build nuclear power plants instead. But unfortunately there is still strong public resistance to nuclear power, so the two main parties are reluctant to touch it. Hence the focus on renewables instead.

Renewables do make a certain amount of sense in Australia, because we have ample sunshine so solar is an excellent solution. My own solar system is 8.25kW, and generates so much power I can't even use it all. The excess is fed back into the grid, and my electricity provider pays me for it.

Which is why I haven't had a power bill for more than a year, and my account is in credit:

Every country with a free democracy is going to flip after COVID. People have had enough.

This government was not removed because of measures taken during COVID. Labor and the Liberals co-operated to ensure that our harsh lockdown measures were implemented and enforced. Those measures were overwhelmingly supported by the Australian public.

 

[Freddie1980]

Maybe we should wait for all the votes to be counted but looking at the results so far I wouldn't say this is a stunning endorsement of Labor's policies as their overall share of the vote is pretty flat (down slightly) election over election. Seems like a good night for independents and Greens though.

 

[Sankari]

Maybe we should wait for all the votes to be counted but looking at the results so far I wouldn't say this is a stunning endorsement of Labor's policies as their overall share of the vote is pretty flat (down slightly) election over election. Seems like a good night for independents and Greens though.

Yeah it is a comprehensive rejection of the Liberals but only a cautious endorsement of Labor. Greens and independents are the big winners, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction with the two major parties. Voters are tired of just see-sawing between political narratives, they want real change.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Exports 100m dollars worth of coal this year, cries about climate change.

Isn't Australia like the 3rd or 4th biggest coal exporter on the planet?

Every country with a free democracy is going to flip after COVID. People have had enough.

And most of that coal is sold to China, one of the planet’s worst polluters.

 

[Sankari]

More than 30% of Australians voted against the two major parties. The ABC currently projects a narrow majority for Labor.