Labor wins S.A. election

[willedoo]

The ABC is calling the lower house seat of MacKillop for One Nation, bringing their numbers to three in the lower house. I don't know the details of how they make that call. The candidate is on 51.2%, so maybe he's more votes ahead than there is remaining voters on the roll to be counted. The remaining possible seat for One Nation, Narungga, will go down to the wire. The candidate there at last count was twenty five votes ahead with the postals and absentee votes yet to be counted. Traditionally they would favour the Liberal candidate. The seat was previously held by an independent. 

[facthunter]

Getting a few seats is far short of running the whole country. What  a giant beat up by Murdoch  and ask yourself WHY? Nev

[Siso]

you are right, but 22% of the vote is still significant, even if it doesn't transfer in to seats.

[facthunter]

But why the big beat up if the result makes little difference? The only real News Is the Previous gov't got re-elected comfortably and Liberal collapsed further . The other News is Gina and Murdoch support PHON in a BIG way. THAT should raise concerns.  Nev

[onetrack]

I had a good chuckle at Jane Hume (deputy leader of the the Liberals) being interviewed over the Libs failure to even make a dent in Labors vote in S.A.

She totally ignored the question, and went into a huge and smooth diversive tactic of carrying on about, how "Labor in S.A. has a huge problem! - look at all the votes they've lost to ON!"

 

This deluded rabid right-winger is a classic individual, for obfuscation and diversionary tactics over who actually LOST in the S.A. election.

If Labor getting an increased majority and 34 seats, when the Libs lost seats and can't even get a quarter of the seat numbers Labor hold, even if they formed a coalition with ON (which they claim they never will do - well, at least, not this month, anyway) - then I'd hate to see what Hume defines as a Liberal political gain.

[facthunter]

Labor would NEVER form a Coalition with PHON.  Nev

[onetrack]

Give it a few months, Nev, and it could be a completely different story, as the Libs desperately try to recover lost votes.

[facthunter]

Labor's constitution would NOT allow it. Libs risk disappearing entirely. If you trace what's happened there starting with the Howard era It' shouldn't come as any surprise. They talk amongst themselves too Much. Badly thought out and explained Policies. Of course with Friends like the NATS you don't need enemies.  Nev

[onetrack]

Sorry, I misread what you originally posted, I thought it read, "Liberals would NEVER form a Coalition with PHON". Why would Labor ever consider a coaltion with ON, when they're capable of winning in most states with just a few other minor parties preferences?

 

It's the Liberals who must now consider a coalition with ON, or they will disappear from the political scene. Even then, they would both still need the Nationals in a coaltion to govern.