Together, Labor, the Greens and the Teals won just 47.9 per cent of first preference votes. Between them, the Libs, the Nats, One Nation, the Palmer party and a miscellany of rightist parties (such as the Lib-Dems, Katter and Shooters and Fishers) also won 47.9 per cent of the primary vote. Why would the Liberals (let alone the Nationals) think that they had to move substantially to the left after an election which was pretty much a tie?
As the biggest Coalition winner in last Saturday’s election – having retained all 16 of the National Party’s seats – Joyce shouldn’t be ousted by his colleagues today. Not according to justice or logic anyway. However, while Joyce has made himself indispensable and beloved on the Wombat Trail – mainly because country and regional Australians see authenticity in his erratic, impolitic persona – he did sell them out on net zero. Not so much a conservative “warrior,” then – as Credlin calls him – but a batman following orders he should have disregarded. I don’t know why Matt Canavan isn’t running but he should be. The biggest existential threat to Australia is the climate change hoax and Canavan is the only man who has shown the mettle to stir away the pond scum of propaganda and see clearly the false, rotten premise beneath.
So what?
Labor is a Right Wing Party, The Greens are quite a bit further Right than that, only the Teals are from the Left.
Again, so what?
The Liberals are a Party of the Left, so are the Agrarian Socialist Nats, and that’s it.
What One Nation, Palmer and SFF stand for, who knows, but they’re appealing to Right Wing voters, so let’s call them Rightists.
Which means the Right actually did quite well.
Will a sharp swing to the Right help the Liberals?
Well, it didn’t do them much good in the Teal Seats, and they lost a couple of senators too.
Bottom line:
Over the 78 years since the Liberal Party was formed, it’s been the senior Party in Coalition Government 51 years.
The Previous Non Labor Parties, the Nationalists and the UAP, fell over because they were chasing Labor Voters.
So far, the Liberal Party has avoided that trap.
Credlin is right as usual. Canavan is in peak form. The Nats need to split from the Libs in Queensland and start running their own candidates even where there’s a Liberal candidate.
That’s nuts.
The LNP holds 21 of the 30 Seats in Qld, Canavan’s intervention in the Campaign wasn’t welcomed by his mates trying to hold on to their seats, but the Labor Party reckon he’d make a great leader [of the National Party].
Littleproud should not be the alternative. A retail political of the worst kind, without charisma. As minister the answer to every solution was to throw taxpayer money about with no regard for policy. Or justice.
$300,000 (even $400,000) grants to landed gentry paid for by taxpayers who are lucky to earn $50,000 in a year.
Dickless
Not sure what you’re smoking, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t legal.
The Nats’ diehard supporters didn’t abandon Joyce over his net zero capitulation only because they believed he wasn’t being serious when he sold them out. Not exactly a flattering basis for his authority.
Credlin was shown up as a bullying and incompetent chief of staff who learnt nothing.
the 2PP vote has always determined who wins government. just ask the Teals who helped them win.
Joyce and Canavan were to this campaign that brown was to the last. Before this campaign the LNP held all the seats where people held post graduate degrees. They now hold only one and it is no longer a safe seat.
If the LNP want to be in government again then Joyce cannot be Leader.
If Albo can change then I can’t see why Dutton cannot although history seems to indicate he won’t be PM when they win government back.
70 per cent of Australians didn’t want Albanese as prime minister.
Dutton made a gratuitous drive-by mention of Tony Abbot while telling Ray Hadley he believed in God but didn’t ever attend church.
There is also background chatter doing the rounds that he’s quite cuddly about the Voice.
He is also being sandbagged by the neo-con loonies of News Corp who want him to keep raving on about war with China and Russia – which probably scared away ten thousand voters on election day.
This is such a 1970s observation.
Plumbers earn a lot more than women’s studies PhDs.
CL, no-one votes for a PM except those on the ALP or Liberal party depending who wins an election.
Actually pols showed albo was even steven with Morrison so you are not even accurate there.
no party wins government on the primary vote.
Who said anything about income or womens studies degrees. The LNP will never win another election if it does not try to win the teal seats again. They were SAFE seats.
Lets face it the deplorable vote in Australia is very low. If you are going to vote for an idiot vote for Lambie at least she has no Svengali behind like hanson has.
Non Mentis
Before this campaign the LNP held all the seats where people held post graduate degrees.
Are you seriously saying that there was not a single post-graduate living in any seat in Australia that was not held by the LNP? Evidence?
Non Mentis
The LNP will never win another election if it does not try to win the teal seats again. They were SAFE seats.
So safe that Phelps managed to win (albeit not hold) Wentworth a few years ago.And then there is Warringah.
What are you smoking?
Phelps did not campaign on climate change per se.
She was not sating a vote for Sharma was a votes for jones.
you really are a superficial deplorable but that is a tautology.
The climate wars is over. If the Liberals realise that then those safe seats will come back to them. if they do not they won’t.
We will need a change of government two elections from now so the LNP need to change at least jones is gone. good.
JC wil be sad. He does like overweight morons as politicians.
Non Mentis
Phelps did not campaign on climate change per se.
So she won a SAFE seat, without campaigning on the issue that you seem to believe led to the loss of the SAFE seat this time? You seem to have a very loose definition of “SAFE”.
She was not sating a vote for Sharma was a votes for jones.
Can this be translated into English?
The climate wars is over.
More semi-literacy, but at least this bit can be comprehended. Perhaps you might offer some evidence? For example, if the electricity grid collapses, will they/it re-start?
You really are a mindless “progressive”, but that is a tautology.