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The Libs HAVE to do a Massive re jig away from the NATS who have had them over a barrel for years. They have a massive Job but it Must be done. Going Trump copy is NOT the Answer. Poor Leens show will self destruct with all the Incompatible Rejects vying for power. Nev

She seems like quite a capable leader and young enough to stick around for a fair while. You never know, she might be premier one day in the future, leading a rebuilt Liberal party. That's the job ahead for people like her, to bring the party back to relevance. It will take a long time but everything goes round in cycles eventually, and I don't believe we're stuck with a one party system forever. The question is, will the Liberals successfully rebuild, or will they fade away and be replaced by a new party. Either way will take a long time.

You can be as gracious and articulate as the best of them - but if you continue to back a party that is no longer relevant to most people, and dead in the water politically, you will forever remain an "also-ran".

There's quite a big difference when you look across the seats. Labor had swings against them in eight seats and a lot of them were big swings. Where there were swings to Labor, the swings were mostly small, but a couple of big ones in there to Labor. Labor seats had much more swinging to them than against.

They go down in recessions when Job Losses happen. In a depression they can't find any buyers. Nev

I wouldn't want to speculate on what turns GON, on. Nev

There's not much sign of hope for the greens in those results. Outcomes differed Massively across seats in SA regions. The new Lib Leader had little time to Campaign and Made Probably the BEST speech of all.. Very gracious and articulate. Pauleen didn't make any speech at the time the Others did.. Nev

This was a Giant Beat up by the Murdoch news. I think it's a bit more subdued today. Murdoch doesn't like being off point. Nev

I'm sure it'll get much more exciting for you, when you can't afford to buy fuel to go to town, and you start to find all your groceries have gone up by 30% to 50% in price within a few weeks.

The way I look at it, Labor is lucky to have the Greens on their left. That 10% Green vote is quite a significant number of preferences that mostly flow to Labor. In that regard Labor has more benefit than threat on their left so it allows them to occupy a fairly comfortable space on the spectrum.

The Onion Parodies News with Satire. It doesn't Pretend to be real News.

Preferential voting sure provides a much different result than first past the post. In SA for example, first past the post , depending on the final count, might have delivered One Nation quite a few lower house seats. As it stands with preferences, they might get one, possibly two, or none at all.

Property prices did pull back some, but there wasn't the property bubble that there is now. Sooner or later there will be a big property price correction. It might take a few more years or even a couple of decades, but it will come.

It was Massively abused in the Senate years ago by dirty deals to trade Preferences but the set up for election of Senators is bad anyhow. They aren't directly elected. That's why Keating referred to them as "Unrepresentative SWILL". Nev

There's good and Bad about the Preferential system but I'd prefer it to the First past the Post. Nev

I sent an Email to Scott Morrison. when he was a Federal minister and got the reply that "He only responded to his constituents". How's that for BS? I communicate with Quite a lot of Pollies and always have. Face to face. On the Phone and by Email. Nev..

Marty, hopefully some of them got to read the emails. It makes you wonder how many are binned by staff members. I'm not sure if this is accurate or even true, but I was told a few years ago that if you write to a minister directly they are under no obligation to answer, but if you do it via your local member forwarding it on, then the minister is obligated to provide a reply.

If they hadn't started a war at all it would have been best.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/20/Australian-Mining-Billionaire-Sues-Canada/ Sure mate. Have a read of that. Support this horrible woman all you want but don't be blind to what type of person she is. When you get to a certain level of wealth you have the ability to distort democracy. From the article - " subsequent rulings by the Court of Appeal, Court of King’s Bench and Supreme Court of Canada repeatedly found that Northback had no legal case." So Gina's company pushed their vexatious claim through every level of Canada's legal system and were knocked back each time. Then they went for the last refuge of the mega rich multinational, Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). If you don't know what that is, research it. Phillip Morris and Clive Palmer have attempted ISDS cases against Australia and thankfully were unsuccessful. Before you say "go petition your politician", a few years ago I did exactly that, sending emails to every lower house member pleading that Australia not be a part of ISDS. I believe that we now do not include ISDS provisions in any trade agreements. But that hasn't stopped Gina from trying to steal $7b from Canadian taxpayers for a project she spent $220m on. Still a Gina fanboi?

If they could have got it all done and dusted in a short time frame, eg: getting rid of the regime, securing the shipping lanes and oil transit and securing the country, it would have been a lot better. A bit of wish list though, as Iran is a tough nut to crack. A big mountainous country with a lot of underground bunkers, and the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a defacto government.

Just looking at results via the ABC (updated 6 hours ago), One Nation are in with a chance in Hammond and MacKillop. Last night the Liberals in Hammond were on 51%TPP, but the latest results have them dropping back and One Nation on 53.8%TPP to Labor's 46.2%. MacKillop is tight between Labor and One Nation with One Nation at 50.8%TPP to Labor at 49.2%. Edit: those preferences are estimates by the ABC, not actual preferences didtributed.

Oh God , that's pretty dismal but l reckon you'd be right . Can see this all going so belly up, Rump has no bloody clue where this crap could go, a few wks my eye. About the only good thing l can see in all that for Aus, which is gonna hurt just as many people as it helps, is our Ponzi housing price bubbles would probably finally crash , about 20yrs past way way over due. Did property crash back then or was there even a bubble at the time or ?

Here's an article on how New Zealand changed to proportional representation in 1996: https://electoral-reform.org.uk/how-did-new-zealand-get-proportional-representation/ Another bit on how and where it's used in Australia: https://www.ecanz.gov.au/electoral-systems/proportional

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It's hard to see it ever changing. The two party system, sometimes referred to as the uniparty, needs preferential voting to maintain their hold. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.