Australian Politics

[Arwon]

The day the election was called was the marathon, and it went all around Lake Burley Grifffin and right past Government House, so there was a traffic mess and they had to stop the marathon so the PM's car could get through to the Governor General. Could easily have called it a day earlier, just a final little bit of casual disrespect to Canberrans.

 

[Ferocitus]

The day the election was called was the marathon, and it went all around Lake Burley Grifffin and right past Government House, so there was a traffic mess and they had to stop the marathon so the PM's car could get through to the Governor General. Could easily have called it a day earlier, just a final little bit of casual disrespect to Canberrans.

LOL. So, a competition of running around getting nowhere is important enough for
a government to defer to its organisers?
Anyone who believes that deserves lots of formal disrespect.

 

[Ferocitus]

Australia: still training to take the moral "high ground" everywhere and on every issue.

Australians ordered to extract videotaped confession from man allegedly tortured in secret
interrogation centre in East Timor

An Australian intelligence officer ordered interrogators to extract a videotaped confession from a
Timorese man after he was allegedly tortured in a secret interrogation centre in East Timor in 1999.
...
A military police special inquiry later recommended torture charges be brought against three
Australian commanders of the facility.

...legal advice said the evidence did support charges being laid. However, it said prosecuting the
interrogation centre commanders was not fair because they were following their training.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04...ract-video-confession-in-east-timor/100981198

 

[EnglishEdward]

Read the article:

...legal advice said the evidence did support charges being laid. However, it said prosecuting the
interrogation centre commanders was not fair because they were following their training.

Seems like a pre-emptive variation of the SS Officers defence, we were only following orders.

I suppose they do not want to admit following US intelligence orders.

 

[Arwon]

Electoral Commission having a well earned brag as the electoral rolls close

"We’re proud to share our record enrolment numbers. The state of the roll is a modern democratic miracle, and not something you see in most places worldwide.

Thanks to the 214,000 Australians who made yesterday our biggest single day of enrolment in Australian history!"

Majority of enrollments are 18 to 24 year olds.

 

[E.man]

Electoral Commission having a well earned brag as the electoral rolls close

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"We’re proud to share our record enrolment numbers. The state of the roll is a modern democratic miracle, and not something you see in most places worldwide.

Thanks to the 214,000 Australians who made yesterday our biggest single day of enrolment in Australian history!"

Majority of enrollments are 18 to 24 year olds.

This reminded me that record numbers in the U.S. voted against Trump.
Combined with expectations that younger ppl might be less conservative could add to voting numbers against the govt.

Morrison campaigns well but has not led a convincing government.

 

[E.man]

Of course. Who wouldn't vote for him? Sing-alongs on the campaign trail would be awesome!

Because it's decades out of date mate.

Lot of ppl never heard of him now.

How is it most comments I see online about AU from US/UK are woefully out of date?

 

[E.man]

Closing in on election day.

PM now admitting he's a "Bulldozer " . Apparently "Jen " thinks it's great.

PM now claiming he's 'saved ' the country. Meanwhile admitting that doing nothing but make excuses might not be brilliant.

I predict a move away from the L/NP coalition, but how far ? Will it stall at the Teals and leak back to the Right?

Cooker standing in my electorate for One Nation but (usually) living thousand km away arrested while being typical Cooker.

 

[Arwon]

New South Wales is about to pass assisted dying laws, the last state to do so, which means the whole country will now very soon have legal euthanasia... EXCEPT for people in Canberra and Northern Territory because John friggin Howard 25 years passed stupid law amending the self government acts, specifically banning the ACT and Northern Territory, only, from considering or passing euthanasia laws. Infuriating stuff.

 

[E.man]

New South Wales is about to pass assisted dying laws, the last state to do so, which means the whole country will now very soon have legal euthanasia... EXCEPT for people in Canberra and Northern Territory because John friggin Howard 25 years passed stupid law amending the self government acts, specifically banning the ACT and Northern Territory, only, from considering or passing euthanasia laws. Infuriating stuff.

Exactly.
Zed could be in trouble for directly acting against the rights of the peope he's supposed to represent.
Senate takes longer to get a result tho.

 

[Zardnaar]

Interesting article.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-61432762

No surprise really my Aussie cousins were a bit different in the 80's.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Congrats

 

[Zardnaar]

Bye bye Scomo.

 

[innonimatu]

Good riddance but I doubt the new ones are much better.

 

[Arwon]

Clearly the best ever Greens result with new seats soon in Brisbane, a record primary vote, and a Senator in every state for a new total of 12 (previous best 10).

Here's the seat chart. Note the big Labor swings in Western Australia delivering multiple seats around Perth. The sweep of independents in grey unseating Liberals in rich urban seats across Sydney Melbourne and Perth. The Greens multiple gains in Brisbane turning it into the new heartland for them

Also very important though is the Senate, where there's looking like a progressive absolute majority thanks to my left wing little ACT looking like replacing the Liberal senator with David Pocock, a progressive climate independent who used to be a rugby union star for the Brumbies and Wallabies.

 

[Zardnaar]

Clearly the best ever Greens result with new seats soon in Brisbane, a record primary vote, and a Senator in every state for a new total of 12 (previous best 10).

Here's the seat chart. Note the big Labor swings in Western Australia delivering multiple seats around Perth. The sweep of independents in grey unseating Liberals in rich urban seats across Sydney Melbourne and Perth. The Greens multiple gains in Brisbane turning it into the new heartland for them

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Also very important though is the Senate, where there's looking like a progressive absolute majority thanks to my left wing little ACT looking like replacing the Liberal senator with David Pocock, a progressive climate independent who used to be a rugby union star for the Brumbies and Wallabies.

So how bad a defeat was it for the liberals? They lost but how hard? Drubbing, asskicking etc.

 

[Cloud_Strife]

Australian's rejected bigotry

 

[Arwon]

Yeah she took the Liberal vote backwards in her seat even from where it was after Abbott got smashed by an independent woman.

 

[E.man]

Clearly the best ever Greens result with new seats soon in Brisbane, a record primary vote, and a Senator in every state for a new total of 12 (previous best 10).

Here's the seat chart. Note the big Labor swings in Western Australia delivering multiple seats around Perth. The sweep of independents in grey unseating Liberals in rich urban seats across Sydney Melbourne and Perth. The Greens multiple gains in Brisbane turning it into the new heartland for them

View attachment 628832


Also very important though is the Senate, where there's looking like a progressive absolute majority thanks to my left wing little ACT looking like replacing the Liberal senator with David Pocock, a progressive climate independent who used to be a rugby union star for the Brumbies and Wallabies.

No independent 'Teals' were standing in Brisbane for some reason meaning environmental Conservatives had nowhere else to go.
Also Greens actually focused instead of general campaigning. Usually they get the same % support as the Nationals but it's spread around.

Morrison continued to endanger Zed in the Senate for ACT right up to the election by stating people in territories could not have the same rights as those in States just because we're in a Territory. Bulldozer bullspit to the end.

Notice none of the nutjob cooker crowd (mostly Far Right or just Scrambled ?) got anything more than token disaffection even after Palmer's disjointed rant big advertising spend.

 

[E.man]

So how bad a defeat was it for the liberals? They lost but how hard? Drubbing, asskicking etc.

Liberals lost big time. Previously safe seats and moderate ministers gone.

As LNP Coaltion government they took the previous win on the back of Nth Queensland conservatism as an ok to move to the Right. That's not what most Australians had voted for. It alienated their more moderate centre right support.

Having lost their own moderates they are now stuck with the leading candidate for leadership, Dutton, still being from the Liberal Right.

Votes they lost didn't go to Labor though. Labour hasn't had a sweeping win. Votes went to Teal green independents, (centre right) or Green party (Left ). Labor not going to get enough numbers to govern without support.