politics

It's election day. Time to exercise your democratic rights Australia.

The count has begun!

A strong swing towards the incumbent Labor (left) government, they should be able to form majority government. Liberal (right) opposition leader looks to have lost his seat (🙈).

The cross bench doesn’t seem to have grown substantially, but hasn’t shrunk substantially either. Long term trend towards independents and minor parties might be on hold, while the geopolitical snow globe has a shake up.

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mfer #9187

Part of me wishes there was more confidence in the Greens as to keep Labor honest as the last few years haven't been great. Libs definitely knew they weren't winning this. So it goes.

Via The Guardian:

"Shorten offered the outgoing Coalition leader some free advice:

I do think the policies were bad, and I do think the campaign was bad but one thing Peter Dutton shouldn’t do is, when he goes home and sees his family ... and it’s hard to do this, but he shouldn’t take it personally. That’s easy to say at a distance, but it happens to be true. When they are piling on you, Peter, they are piling on your nuclear policy, or your work from home or whatever, but he and his family have just got to take some time just to breathe, okay, and not to feel it. It’s not about him."

This is utter horse shit and Shorten is dead wrong here. It is personal and it is about Dutton as much as it is about the Liberal party as a whole. They are absolute clowns and they deserve every ounce of hate they get, and then some. Their whole campaign has been a total farce. Fuck them.