Labor has copped a swing but still won the WA election comfortably after McGowan set a post-lockdown high water mark last time around. I’m not sure if that means the feds will go for a snap election early in May or wait for the budget to come out… minimum 33 days means yesterday was the last date to announce an April election.
Swing was inevitable after they got a ludicrous around 60% + last time. This would be the biggest whitewash in history if it wasn’t for last time.
That being said it was not a good night for either major party really. And a third or more of the swing actually went left to the greens or independents, which should have th majors running even more scared, not that they’ll admit it.
It’s not really a snap and we know what’s happening, because of the cyclone, they’ve already last week announced the budget will be on 25th March, and they’ll call the election basically straight after the reply, as it has to be held by May 17.
Lots of little parties getting votes and also lots of redistribution of electorates that swung things around.
hang on, is that Tucker on the billboard with him?
Yes
Is that the old car wash on Parra Road or is that the one heading west at Annandale ?
Had channel 9 on this morning, Clive palmer has already started smashing out terrible American style ads.
There’s a really horrid one with tucker Carlson talking about how you need brave billionaires in politics to save us.
Newcastle Herald did it a couple of days ago and got a heap of complaints.
Not surprised at all to be honest. Money speaks in a moral vacuum.
Edit:
The claim in the advertisement, made without context or nuance, is simplistic and hurtful to many. Transgender Victoria has called on Palmer’s party to retract the “dangerous and hateful ad”, as reported by this masthead. The ad is an unhelpful and provocative contribution to the national discussion that this masthead does not endorse.
While it is not this company’s approach to censor political viewpoints in paid advertisements, The Age refuses to allow Palmer – or other billionaires and politicians – to avoid criticism and scrutiny by mounting an election campaign via unchallenged advertising slogans. We will continue to criticise and scrutinise in our editorial coverage, as we do today, throughout the election campaign.
Scum.
I dare say theres no point in even complaining. Hit their bottom line rather than anything else. An editer with the balls to publish that, wont give a shit about “lefties” complaining
I wouldn’t have believed that was real.
No depths to which he will not sink, a vile cunt.
The whole artifice is an insult to the intelligence of the Australian voters and having that braying jackass, Carlson in tow, is doubling down
Until you mentioned Tucker, I wasn’t sure which Australian politician you were referring too. Both of the major parties have their hands dirty after leaders were briefed that the anti-semitic attacks were a hoax and blaming Palestinians anyway, and Dutton doubly so for suggesting Albanese was bringing in Gazan refugees to stack Western Sydney swing seats. He’s just the mask-off version of it with no polite veneer, like Trump.
The juxtaposition between the ad and the Palmer article is just beyond parody.
Dutton, for mine, the worry is the fact that he hasn’t been laughed off the stage over his puerile and catastrophically bad nuclear energy ‘policy’… People will vote for that shite in depressingly large numbers
I’m not annoyed at all that the Labour government wasn’t able to get a carve-out for Australian Aluminium and Steel tariffs, but I’m fucking livid that those fucking pussy bastards are not retaliating with tariffs on US goods, appeasement never works and Trump has zero respect for grovellers, get in his fucking face and he’ll back down like the tangarine trollop he is.
And they can start by spelling Labor properly!
I’d be closing Pine Gap
We’d get invaded or our government overthrown so quick.
We’re a democracy though, that literally cant happen. Our politicians work for us Australians and their policies reflect the will of the Australian people. That’s why everyone fucking hates them.