Labor wins S.A. election

[willedoo]

Current AEC primary vote percentages statewide for the lower house, four leading parties, are  Labor 37.6%, One Nation 22.5%. Liberal 19.4%, Greens 10.0%.

Upper house percentages are Labor 36.9%, One Nation 24.3%, Liberal 17.6%, Greens 10.3%. Fairly consistent across both houses.

Edited Tuesday at 02:05 AM by willedoo

[Jerry_Atrick]

Polls didn't seem too far off. It is an ominous sign for politics. Australia needs a centre right party now - oh wait, that is the ALP at the moment.. Maybe Australia needs a centre left party now. 

 

In the UK, Labour is deemed far enough right that the Greens under the charismatic (to young people) Zak Polanski are courting the unions to switch funding from Labour to the Greens.. and apparently behind closed doors some unions are seriously entertaining the idea. 

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Australia needs a centre right party now - oh wait, that is the ALP at the moment.. Maybe Australia needs a centre left party now. 

Depends on your viewpoint. From where I see it, the ALP is already spanning centre left to centre right. They can't go any further left without bumping into the Greens, but they've broadened a bit to take up some slack left by the Liberals. Liberal and ALP always did overlap somewhat.

 

Regarding the opinion polls, the SA election showed them to be fairly accurate this time.

[willedoo]

There's only one seat left not officially called, the seat of Narungga which is a very close result between the Liberals and One Nation, formerely held by an independent. Preferences have been distributed and One Nation has won the seat by 77 votes, so the AEC is doing a recount today due to the closeness of the result. 

Edited 19 hours ago by willedoo

[willedoo]

One Nation won the recount today on the last undecided lower house seat. The narrow win by less than sixty votes over the Liberal candidate brings their election seat tally to seven; four lower house seats and three upper house seats.

[willedoo]

The Liberal Party ended up with five lower house seats so they will retain their opposition status.

[Marty_d]

What a sad result.  Hopefully they implode sooner rather than later.

[willedoo]

Time will tell. The Victorian election later in the year will be the test of how lasting the swing is. If they do well there it will get the peanut gallery well and truly hyperventilating.

[Jerry_Atrick]

3 hours ago, Marty_d said:

What a sad result.  Hopefully they implode sooner rather than later.

Is that ON, Libs, or both? Although, arguably Libs have imploded. 

 

 

Libs are the official oppo by one seat; there are seats held by the other opposition than the opposition..

 

Farq.. I think Malinauskas is doing a pretty good jobm as does many SA people, I guess. But there is a real danger that hubris through a perceived untouchability may seep in. 

 

Australia as a whole needs a decent opposition.

[Marty_d]

Now that I agree with whole heartedly.  A strong opposition is essential to keep the government performing.

However the LNP has lost their way and forgotten that if they ever want to be in government again, they need to recapture the centre, not the lunatic fringe.

But yes ON are who I'm hoping will implode quickly. Given the quality of their candidates, it shouldn't be long.

 

[old man emu]

Is it possible that the Libs have lost their following because of the nay-saying of teh likes of Abbott, Morrison and Dutton? These blokes spent too much time just saying No to anything Labor proposed, and too much time attacking personalities. Although I wouldn't vote for them, I really think that with their experience in politics they could rise phoenix-like from the ashes if they developed a well considered platform that reined in corporate tax avoidance and concession so that the wealth of the Nation could be applied for the betterment of all.

 

It seems that our economic and social situation is the result of previous governments selling out to foreign interests. We have become a nation of warehousemen. We have "golden soil and wealth for toil" but no one seems to wwant to toil. I must saya word of defence for all governments. It is hard to meet the standards of social and industrial benefits of other countries when the population is minute compared to the size of the country.