Better Dead Than Redhead: the 2010 Australian Federal Election thread [stage 3: Suck on that Abbotts]

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SHE'S NOT QUITE READY, SHE'S A GOT FEW MORE VAGUELY RACIST SOUNDBITES TO PLAY FOR OUTER SUBURBAN MARGINALS

http://www.bellgeorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/772686-tony-abbott.jpg

HE'S READY

NO DON'T LOOK DOWN THERE

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HE'S READY

http://images.smh.com.au/2009/05/20/533534/hockey-420x0.jpg

HE'S READY...FOR LUNCH

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HE'S NOT GETTING UP BEFORE MIDDAY

Just in time to catch Julia on the National Press Club.

Love the captions there, KBP!

Not that Julia's impressing with her anti-refugee crap, but I hope she wins because that will, presumably, be the end of Tony Abbott as a politician, and that can't come soon enough.

Is Ruddy wearing pants in that pic? His legs look a bit bare...though maybe that explains the grin...

malcolm fraser where's yr trousers

omg political bombshell dude omg dude

Laurie "Your Arse Like The Back of a Bus" Oakes calls out The Gill at the National Press Club, accuses her of doing a deal with K-Rudd the night before the leadership spill and turning on him just ten or so minutes later.

Hilarity ensures.

Also: she said "moving forward" several million fucking times.

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THEY'RE READY

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/firstblog/files/2008/12/stephen_conroy_popup.jpg

HE'S [controversial ministerial edit]

http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/uploads/jgunley.jpg

SHE'S READY (TO GET THE KIDS ON THE ELECTORAL ROLL)

It begins! Expect to see several thousand posters up on your street by 5pm!

ABC 1 presenter confidently predicts that nobody will die during this campaign.

21 August then, wheeeeeeeee!!

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MOVING FORAAAARGH STOP IT ALREADY

omg <3 this thread

KNOW YOUR CANDIDATES

Austen Tayshus (former #1 chart topper!), Australian Sex Party for Warringah

When asked how he would be campaigning he said, “In Speedos. And unlike Marathon Man (Tony Abbott), I’ve got a Cockatoo to put in them”. He said he would make an excellent representative for the people of Sydney’s northern beaches and would not run away from anything. “I’ll even doorknock Sydney’s northern beaches in a mankini, if the Mad Monk will wear his Speedos”, he said.

“If people want to hear that “he’s packed Bill-a-bong”, or that Anna has ‘plat-her-puss’ then as adults, they have a right to hear it. If adults want to be able to buy and sell R rated computer games and X rated DVDs, they should have the right. They do in New Zealand, Europe, the USA and other countries that have real separation of church and state."

You can call Austen Tayshus on 0413 120 430.

Liberal candidate punched in face over asylum policy

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/18/2956861.htm

GAME ON

More traditional to throw eggs iirc

hard to know if austen's running for parliament or wanting to get laid from that blurb.

wanting someone to remember who he is imo

Tony Abbott is promising keep interest rates down already. HE'S AN ECONOMIC GENIUS, GUYS!!1!

slowing the economy to a crawl is a good way to do that i hear

The economy needs to take a weekend off now and again, you have to train for those triathlons.

Tony Abbott is promising keep interest rates down already. HE'S AN ECONOMIC GENIUS, GUYS!!1!

― "The Dad" from Gay Dad (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 18 July 2010 16:36 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u dum fuk, howard kept interest rates down until he left in 2007*, abbott will do the same

* not including years 2004-2007 and that one time when he was fraser's treasurer for six years

PAUL KEATING HAD TEH INTEREST RATES UP AT 277% AND HE WAS LABOR OMG U CANT TRUST TEH SOCIALISTS

SOCIALISTS DON'T KEEP INTEREST RATES DOWN WE KEEP INTEREST RATES DOWN EXCEPT FOR WHEN THEY GO UP

The Abbott Family!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCZw4MTzB0

Was just about to post that, who said the unions were useless??

Who said the unions were useless? The Aaaaa-booott Faaaa-miiiii-lyyyyy

Do you like the cut of my Speedos?

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/07/19/1702303/budgieDG-420x0.jpg

they escorted him out because his ears aren't big enough amirite

Tony Abbott on Hey Hey It's Saturday tomorrow night. These dudes oughta make a comeback, they'd get 10/10 from him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV6QzcdT_cA

I won't be watching People Skills on Hey Hey but stay tuned for a report from dedicated Daryl Somers fan, Autumn Almanac.

Report:

- People Skills made a joke, nobody laughed
- contestant 2 was an old bloke who did a really bad comedy routine
- the gay Asian bloke out of Entourage gave him a high score for being 'funnier than Tony Abbott'

Now they've got circus dogs on.

FUCKING CIRCUS DOGS

he's fucking circus dogs?

Cutting the Nationals lunch there, I reckon.

They had four little girls on doing some routine. Daryl got on his knees and talked to them as though he had brain damage, and they condescended the shit out of him. Top shelf TV.

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/07/21/1707311/1_1_tonyabbott-300x340.jpg

This man could become Prime Minister of Australia in a few weeks.

In most other countries, furry lovers would be burnt at the stake.

http://images.theage.com.au/2010/07/22/1707479/420_heyhey-420x0.jpg

motherfucker with some dark secrets

is that Lloyd from Entourage?

There's 3 people in that picture I wish dead

News Corp begins the scaremongering campaign of the EXTREME GREENS with the shocking expose that they would divert money from absurd private health insurance rebates for very wealthy people to the public hospital system, a policy that is nothing less than COMMUNISM.

I am going to vote the shit out of some Greens next month (in my safe Labor seat)

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Australia, this coming Thursday afternoon.

Oh, I guess we should LIVEBLOG this debate tonight.

Watching a Liberal advertisement which claims "you're earning the same amount, but you can't afford rising costs" which is hilarious because if WorkChoices come back, you'll be learning MUCH BLOODY LESS.

Not to mention how those dirty terrorist illegal queue-jumping filthy migrants would fill critical job vacancies and stimulate the economy.

btw liveblog is prob suited to the myriad wonders of the cape

did i tell you i'm going to the cape soon? trufax

uh no

Australian Election Debate/Masterchef 2010 Grand Finale LIVEBLOG

THE GREENS SHOULD BE CALLED THE WATERMELON PARTY HURF DURF

Speaking of which, here is AA's new Twitter account: http://twitter.com/soul86

the question people should ask themselves is what are we going to do with immigrants when the coal and iron ore is gone @ausvotes

bob brown like cock up he ass how anyone can vote for him is beyond me #ausvotes

the question people should ask themselves is what are we going to do with immigrants when the coal and iron ore is gone @ausvotes

are they suggesting they should be burned for fuel?

You'd think you could burn the wood from the ships first.

good lord

preemptively blocked btw

GILLARD CHALLENGES ABBOTT TO NEW DEBATE

New Gillard, new opinions.

ABBOT SAYS SCHEDULE IS “TOO BUSY” FOR A DEBATE

No baby shall be left unkissed by 2011.

Fuck her, she had her chance.

I'd rather see a debate between Andrew Bolt and Twitter's Fake Andrew Bolt.

Good to see People Skills bring back the heady days of Alexander Downer as Federal Opposition Leader with a crap rape joke of sorts.

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/07/23/1711841/Rudd-420x0.jpg

That was a good speech, comrade. You should have a go at being Prime Minister one day.

lol @ 420 in the url

i don't give a fuck, abbott can be pm for all i care, frankly the country deserves this piece of shit as a leader, screw the lot of you

ps vote greens

this election is the most dismal thing i've ever seen.

it's a wonder i have any hair left

I'm wondering if there's anyway us Green-voting inner-city hipsters can secede from the rest of Australia, as it seems that's mostly populated by uninformed selfish bogan morons.

COALITION VOW TO BLOCK INTERNET FILTER

woohoo!

My policy is every time a boat arrives, we deport that number of Young Liberals and Young Nationals to keep the population numbers steady.

ideas intriguing subscribe newsletter etc

i don't give a fuck, abbott can be pm for all i care, frankly the country deserves this piece of shit as a leader, screw the lot of you

― one more winner one less white hipster (electricsound), Thursday, 5 August 2010 23:46 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bumper stickers pls

http://images.theage.com.au/2010/08/07/1759180/467092228-420x0.jpg

facial expressions otm

when PMs die

I'm wondering if there's anyway us Green-voting inner-city hipsters can secede from the rest of Australia, as it seems that's mostly populated by uninformed selfish bogan morons.

― Guernsey Shore (King Boy Pato), Thursday, August 5, 2010 9:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

You're suggesting a country entirely populated by baristas, out of work musos and low level office workers?

anything in the coverage of policy launches today to expand anyone's platform between Internet Filter/No Brown People vs Slower Internet/No Brown People vs Careful Now/Down With This Sort Of Thing?

No.

Careful Now/Down With This Sort Of Thing?

now this i can get behind

http://www.chilout.org/images/Merlin_with_BobBrown.jpg

l-r: Fr Dougall McGuire, Fr Ted Crilly

i have no problem with boat people, it's the aeroplane people i can't stand

he spelt ta wrong.

i'd forgotten about that fukken guy.

If Cosmia ran for the Senate, you'd vote for her and potential hoary-voiced speeches on the Murray-Darling Basin.

lol, so true.

Abbott, whose nickname since school has been Abbo,

wtfff

from http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/leader-not-biting-as-policy-gets-a-lick-and-a-promise-20100809-11u47.html

he truly feels empathy with indigenous australians

He is the third segment in a Bush-Howard-Abbott human centipede. Perhaps by eating shit and dying he'll get a taste of indigenous disadvantage in this country.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/huge-betting-plunge-for-labor-20100810-11vu4.html

come in spinner ranga

http://bp0.blogger.com/_9gn6KLa5xtY/SBSG6tVk-AI/AAAAAAAABmo/GTQL-3OkwV4/s400/TonyAbbott

"keeping in mind that i already explained about my hair.."

http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/content/episodes/screenshots/3f09.jpg

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In other news, I flipped off a couple of Young Libs being nuisances around the local train station.

lol br0's gf is quoted in dis article

Previously used, now applied to a certain former ALP leader and Prime Ministereial aspirant:

"Somewhere in New York City, right now, as we speak, a guy is sitting at a bar, nursing a Budweiser, watching the Giants on the television and he is trying to decide what sort of potato chips to buy with his next beer. It's a vital decision, because he prefers steak and onion but he fancies his chances of getting laid later on in the night and he doesn't want his breath to stink because that might adversely affect his chances. So to play safe he thinks he might buy plain instead.

'Now this guy is unique. He doesn't realise it, in fact he doesn't realise much if the truth be known, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed and he'd be no sure thing to realise if his arse was on fire. But he actually is unique, literally, in a club with one member, right now while he's sitting at that bar contemplating his chances of scoring tonight.

'And can you even guess what makes him unique? It's because WHETHER THIS BASTARD ACTUALLY GETS TO BONK SOMEBODY/SOMETHING TONIGHT IS THE ONLY ISSUE ON THE FACE OF GOD'S GREEN EARTH RIGHT NOW THAT I GIVE LESS OF A FLYING RATS TOENAIL ABOUT THAN ANYTHING MARK LATHAM MAY OR MAY NOT DO OR SAY AT ANY TIME BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF HIS LIFE.

labor is pro free sauce on pie i see

a policy we can all get behind

i think i might punch 50% of people i see, bound to hit a liberal voter more often than not

right wing press in backing right wing party shocker

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/editorials-back-coalition-in-key-states-20100820-12se1.html

good luck australia

http://www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk/resources/products/image1/009813/web.ae.dumbo.picA_t820.jpg

^ patrolling our borders

http://blog.redfin.com/orangecounty/files/2008/01/dumbo.jpg

^ first day in the lodge

BIG MINING COMPANY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ_s6V1Kv6A

I voted below the line. All eighty bloody four New South Wales candidates for the Senate!

loll @ that youtube

About to head out to get booze/pizza before settling in to watch the O'Brien & Green Comedy Revue at home.

i read 'about' as 'abbott' for a sec there

this election is messing with my head

let's get some liveblogging up in this bitch

alp conceded melbourne to greens woo

BREAKING NEWS: Antony Green still looks a bit like Dave Faulkner

wow penny wong is vile

hockey seems blazed

sex party killin' it in latrobe

Eden-Monaro's Mike Kelly should be in cabinet with that moustache, he looks like an early-80s cricket player.

tasmanians love their labor

Bass! How Low Can The (Liberal) Vote Go?

wills to labor despite my best efforts

I think Labor is keeping Grayndler from the Greens despite my efforts.

9% swing but

more disturbed by wyatt roy as MP than abbott as PM

Yeah we need to get rid of Queensland.

lol joanna gash

Luckily the good people of Bennelong have decided to give it to a wanky former tennis player ahead of The Pantsuit.

9% swing butt

fixed

bring back howard

xp loll

i have one beer left but i think this might be a 2 x 6-pack kind of evening

gettin beer brb text me if anything happens

anthony green's tie: a shocker

Hi I have no TV, am ignoring news sites and just told off several friends for "turning into assholes" for talking about politics!

...what'd I miss? :D

bandtman has 52% of vote in melbourne, apparently!

:DDDD

danby back in ports, well done adam + trayce

I didnt vote for him! lol. I usually do, fwiw (shit danby's been in that seat so long it must have mould on it). I voted the greens dude.

but ports is such a hardcore labor seat it'd take 2012 for something to change.

BTW this thredd is the only poltix Imma look at all night, so you fuckers better bring it with the lols or else bam.

2PP is currently 50/50 +/- .02%

lol joanna gash

^i already used my best material here

This old cunt from Cairns needs to be shot.

he has a very shiny head

greens is officially melbourne now iirc

in happy tears ovah heah

in lalor it's ranga vs ranga

holy shit those lalor kids love their gillard

austen tayshus gettin 3% for sex party in abbott's seat

concetta hyphen-hyphen is appalling, saw her on the drum earlier in the week, what a turd

LOL

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/election-race-a-nailbiter-20100821-139m7.html?autostart=1

Above pic of fattey wedding kids voting is "result may be unclear for fortnight".

Nick sez "of what, their marriage?"

watching bandt on ch 9 right now :)

Aw Maxine's lost her seat ;_;

Now how can I play the Mike Rutherford song.

bandty <3

dumb ch9 bitch calling him adam brandt

ugh costello's face making me want to vomit, back to abc for me

See this what I'm sayin - tv sucks, i'm just gonna feed off reactions and ignore the rest =)

WTF I hear fireworks, what would that be all about?

andrew wilkie, there's a name from the (recent) past

hmm hung fucken parliament, oh goody

wyatt roy winning is annoying me more than anything so far.

^^^^^this x 100000

short boy/longman.

seriously if anything else that's the great big sign that the country has lost its damn mind

God this country sucks, how many cunts can vote for a racist who is going to give us mass unemployment because they are racists with the misguided belief that they might get a little more money (which they won't anyway ffs).

My own brother was like ps liberals! on my fb the other day

He works for a govt job, he must be nuts.

lol @ annabel crabb tweet: " Which way would Wilkie swing in a hung parly? Well, the Libs kind of tried to put him in prison, so..."

who is this kevin rudd bloke they keep talking about

xp haaaaaa

Labor-Green-Wilkie pact would be great fun.

5% swing to greens in the senate

noting no swing against FF..

yay bandty on abc

Settle down, Kerry O'Brien is trying to speak!

wyatt roy is triumphantly piping his thoughts to ch 9 reporter, </3.

haa they cut the cheering off at the end there pretty quick

he is like a charmless doogie howser.

Pictures of the Ruddster coming through on the ABC.

wow what a creep. i'd put money down that he'll have phenomenal swing against him next time xpost

nu-downer

yes, that same kind of namby-pamby fucking annoying voice.

rudd is kind of a dullard tbh

he always looks as if his mother licked her hand and then patted his hair down with it.

That was a stirring speech, comrade!

it's kinda weird but i can barely remember him being PM

haha kerry <3

CUT SHORT!

looool slight swing to the abc

Slight swing to the ABC!!!!

latrobe to labes

A close mate of mine just informed me he went to uni with Bandt and knows him well, huh.

crucial "thank christ belinda neal has fucked off" vote might get labor up in robertson

these things are important

oh lordy it really looks like a hung parliament, we're fuuuuuuuucked

Woah! Albo might be stuffed in my own seat!

Er, maybe not.

Nah man hung parliaments are great you might get a really cool coalition government

lolololo

nar albo is ok but it might be the next greens seat next time round

please will you lay off the horrible visuals, kbp.

who is this harridan in the pearls

sry (xp)

Wot's wrong with a lurch to the left, you horrid witch?

i think she walked into the wrong tv studio

Ftang ftang ole biscuit barrel.

0 votes

this ho needs to stfu

that's concetta hyphen-hyphen (xxxxxxp)

"And in a si-- oh."

ahaha

someone remind me which seat wilkie is in

Firework noise going off like mad outside for fuck nose what reason.

Unless its libs shotting themselves.

how do i shot liberal

WITH GREAT JUSTICE

Also wtf @ gus on FB, lol

Maxine isn't gonna be a Labor candidate again anytime soon.

australian shooters party doing better than sex party on 1st prefs in the senate

i can tell which part of dope guns & fucking in the streets this country is into

good luck AUS

everyone maxine knows has a job! wish i could claim that

think there might be some retribution towards the NSW righties, finally. bout fukkn time

Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello said on the Nine Network Mr Roy is on track to be leader of the party by 2035.

"I'll have a chat to Peter about that later," Mr Roy joked.

god help us

hahahaha @ kerry not being impressed with mckew being compared with kernot

"faceless men of the labor party" oh for god's sake

thinking he doesn't need tips on being a spineless wimp from peter

xpost obv

who are these faceless men? arbib and howes and all of them, they're pretty public figures!

i think costello was secretly laughing at roy, he had his special extra-supercilious face on.

http://images.absoluteanime.com/spirited_away/no-face.jpg

this guy

xpost god i hope so

i now see i have never loathed barnaby joyce properly before tonight.

fielding out of senate!!

that was me

greens have senate b.o.p

yessssssssssssss

lol at tony windsor telling barnaby to stfu.

WAHT

(I have just tuned back in, not quite sure what to say yet)

this is so different from last time, aa:(

tasmanians like their internet

So fucking angry, just so fucking angry. We're on the verge of a very right-wing government that is going to fuck this country back to fifties, fuck this shit.

bob brown looking slightly dessicated

At least the Greens might save this country from going down the toilet.

69-69

oooer

So fucking angry, just so fucking angry. We're on the verge of a very right-wing government that is going to fuck this country back to fifties, fuck this shit.

― How much does a Cheryl Kernot? (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 21 August 2010 21:49 (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

on the verge of a crippled unity lolgovt with green balance of power morelike

"topping the belgian flemish greens"

lolll that's a green green

23% senate first prefs for greens in act

on the verge of a crippled unity lolgovt with green balance of power morelike

I'm expecting unrepresentative Liberal/National + Nutbag Right-Wing Regional Independents Government at this stage.

grayndler not out of the green woods yet

It's certainly a concern but honestly whoever wins it now won't be able to do anything anyway xp

greens also #2 in batman, but not quite there

christopher pine is a major dickweed

..but not as much as wyatt earp roy

surely the could eq that horrible tone out of his voice

arrogant little prick

lol camplain

surely the could eq that horrible tone out of his voice

― suggest bandt (electricsound), Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:03 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It's the Young Liberal tone

they made an anti-vuvuzela eq, i should market an anti-young liberal eq

This kid is seriously a fucking annoying cunt.

http://www.liewcf.com/blog/wp-images/william-hung.jpg

GOOD LUCK OZMALIA.

greens babe is part scary part ws all electable

wow penny wong is really horrible

I must say I'm loving all the panic coming from both the major parties. Both were horrid and utterly fucking deserved this.

can someone pls remind me name of greens babe

Sarah Hansen-Young

ty

apols for sexism

^^ informed voter

hmm aec results differing to abc results

The ABC says LNP 71 and Green says 'LNP HAS DEFINITELY WON 71 SEATS' and then it drops to 70 so might as well use the AEC as primary source.

http://images.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/_photos/2001-10-31-malcolm.jpg

wyatt roy, yesterday

why do they keep saying coalition are ahead on 2PP when aec have had them below 50% pretty much all night

Seats?

Bob Katter is sounding as intelligent as ever.

Or drunk.

he got even worse after you typed that.

jesus he sounds like he's in tears

"we haven't enjoyed the right to survive for 25 years."

"us independents have to stick together."

i gotta say there is a small amount of satisfaction in that if there's a hung parliament a lot of lame-o gamblers (who kinda pay my salary) will lose their $$$

If this guy is going to decide who runs the country, I'm getting on a boat outta here.

I wonder if turning back the boats works in both directions

Srsly, if one more friend of mine says bla bla im leaving the country, let me buy you a fucking ticket out of here.

lol nobody ever acts on that shit. though on a putting one's money where their mouth is tip, i sold the house i bought when howard got in in '04 because i was convinced he was going to destroy the economy

in retrospect possibly a slightly foolish decision, though my life would be pretty damn dull

It destroyed itself. Govt doesnt have a whole lot of control over that shit.

a curb yr enthusiasm moment xp

i just wish i hadn't blown my deposit on hookers and blow

Annabel Crabb reckons we could be back at the polls if they can't form government.

Oh, goody. Let's shoot ourselves now.

Don't think I can go through this again.

yes that will make ALL the difference

Didnt we go thru this last time round? postal/early not in for days yet ppl

Trayce nothing federal has been this close in 70 years iirc. Not to make you angry but I am leaving the country btw.

I'm kinda hoping that Tasmania becomes independent, I'll move down there.

you should move to longman and troll wyatt roy.

running out of safe haven countries for people who don't like having right wing shitbag governments :(

Wyatt Roy is already an internet meme, I'm too late on that bus. (xp)

We need an enclave xp

RIP Wilson Tuckey, heaven needed a racist.

a meme you say

http://images.memegenerator.net/Foul-Bachelor-Frog/ImageMacro/2198341/wyatt-roy-blast-it-with-piss.jpg

o fuc I just realised 'er indoors will be angry for three years

'er indoors 'ere has realised that I'm going to be angry for three years and has already decamped to bed.

here's yr enclave AA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_and_Lesbian_Kingdom_of_the_Coral_Sea_Islands

Not sure what's going on here. ABC has LNP 73/ALP 70, 7 has ALP 72/LNP 71, 9 has ALP 70/LNP 70/john fucking howard, 10 has ALP 70/LNP 69, SBS has ALP 72/LNP 71, channel 31 has some bird singing.

xp oooh lovely

Pays de merde. I can't deal with this, I'm going to bed.

http://www.ubercomments.com/1/condolences/020.jpg

Massive bloodletting within the ALP according to an SBS bloke. GOOD.

xp aww <3

sarah h-y talking about bush votes a little bit arousing

/l0uis

barnaby joyce is reminding me horribly of eddie mcguire tonight.

i keep going back to channel 9 so i can get annoyed.

I've switched off, trying to figure out why people can't be arses.

Not feeling punished enough? xp

no, i can't believe the lineup they have on there, so awful.

gahhh why do they keep saying the coalition has the higher primary vote when the aec says they don't?!?!?!

whoops i am getting primary confused with 2PP please ignore me

You mean the AEC % of votes? The networks are going by # of seats coz that's how you secure an erection innit.

xp ah okay

Tony Abbott can't even get his own name on his podium?

welp, we're about to be led by a racist, homophobic, sexist moron. which tbh pretty much matches my experience of most australians. shouldn't be surprised.

Aus getting the leadership it deserves?

Oh shit, it really wasn't a bad dream.

KBP remember these things:

1. Greens hold balance of power (NINE seats) so nothing can happen without their approval
2. Steve Fielding GONE
3. Wilson Tuckey GONE
4. Australia has its first ever indigenous MP
5. NO FILTER
6. Labor will be forced to get its fucking house in order and maybe start representing people like us

Not denying that the prospect of an Abbott PM is suicide-worthy but focus on the many positives pls.

I mean if ANYONE won this election it was the Greens.

Greens have NINE Senate seats? OK, good, I can live with that.

NINE

oh and 7. First ever elected Greens MP!!!1 IN THE HOUSE OF REPAZENT

the greens results are a huge consolation.

Hung like a donkey! The next few weeks are going to be entertaining.

Something I dont quite understand: what exactly is Bad about having a spread of minor and independants in the senate? Why should it be that we have to have only 2 majority parties and only that choice?

Is this kind of result a GOOD thing? Shake up the system! Make some changes.

Because people will have to think about things and shit!

and abbott might be pm.

That too. Independents are orright when they're not right-wing nutbags from the bush.

Something I dont quite understand: what exactly is Bad about having a spread of minor and independants in the senate? Why should it be that we have to have only 2 majority parties and only that choice?

In theory this is correct, but in practice the Brian Harradines and Stephen Fieldings of this world do more damage than the Greens (say) can do good, not merely because they're crazy, but also because they preference their own peccadiloes and (though this isn't shocking) local issues over and above actually holding the Govt to account.

I think probably the worst part of this outcome is its legacy: the official version of history is almost guaranteed to reflect the Libs party line, namely that only the Libs can be trusted with the economy. Never mind the fact that Australia's economy weathered the GFC better than any other developed country.

The biggest mistake of the Labor campaign was not to talk about this more. And this is not even a hindsight thing. EVERY journalist and commentator was saying this for the past 3 weeks or so.

AUSTEN TAYSHUS UPDATE: 1,728 votes in Warringah with a percentage of 2.44%!

The biggest mistake of the Labor campaign was not to talk about this more. And this is not even a hindsight thing. EVERY journalist and commentator was saying this for the past 3 weeks or so.

― Tim F, Sunday, 22 August 2010 09:36 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This.

That party has myriad problems but the biggest of them all is its fear to blow its own trumpet. Enough economists have praised Labor's response to the GFC that it should have been a central boast in the campaign. Instead the party sat on it, too scared to cultivate hubris, and fell apart.

Trayce: I think everyone with a brane agrees that a Greens/indep. balance of power in the senate is the single best thing to come out of this election.

(by that I mean everyone who isn't a dodgy ALP/LNP shill)

Then why is everyone on my FB going DOOM WOE I AM SAD.

Well, except one good friend who explitly stated that if the Greens *did* get a balance of power w/labor, he'd consider leaving country.

He is like an Penn Gilette with an australian accent. How we dont kill each other I have no idea.

Also, anyone who says "if X happens Im moving" can fuck off and DIAF in a scummy 3rd world country.

We are leaving the country but we were anyway so

Then why is everyone on my FB going DOOM WOE I AM SAD.

They wanted Abbott to be smashed. One you dig a bit you realise he wouldn't have any power to do anything anyway, except be himself and fuck up all over the place.

I dont have faith in *any* of them, really. If even people with strong moral stances like Garrett can completely shit the bed, then what hope is there?

I know. Politics is fucked here imo.

Not that it is any better elsewhere, lol UK/USA

Yeah. I like to think we're better than that but we're not, I know.

So where are you moving to anyway? (also, holy shit wtf)

Nah I'm overdramatising because it's election time. We are going to the COGH + some other 3rd world places for holz lolz.

Latest word from our nutbag bush indies:

- They don't like the Nationals anymore
- They loathe Barnaby Joyce
- They like nationalised telecommunications and fast broadband

good sign

sounds reasonable to me

And rightly so, the bush/regional areas have been fucked over hardcore by both sides of govt for... forevr, really.

Shit theres even some areas of central perth you cant get DSL, let alone looking at the country. And closing banks, hospitals, schools...

Can someone summarize or give a link about the major issues and stances of the major parties? Are the Liberals something like the UK Conservatives and Labor something like New Labour?

Can someone summarize or give a link about the major issues and stances of the major parties?

Not really. Nobody can. Apart from pandering to racists, the only real point of difference between them was broadband infrastructure. The ALP (left, incumbent) has a $43b plan to build a fibre network; the LNP (right) wanted to spend about $6b on tin cans and string.

As far as issues go, the only real non-policy issue was the ongoing instability of the ALP, with a hostile leadership change and such.

Oh and the LNP promised greater funding for mental health but that was drowned out in the most unimportant and inane bullshit I have ever seen in an election campaign.

Oh and to answer your other question (sorry, v tired today): Yep, the Liberals are like the Conservatives (despite the name) and Labor was once like Labour but did sort of go a bit New Labour in 2007, i.e. shifting to the right.

Generally speaking the Libs are more influenced by/skewed t'wards the religious right than Labor, but yeah both sides have ignored some things of fundamental importance in recent years that is really annoying me.

- trade schools/appenticeships/building skills for kids
- support for tech and R&D in this country is a joke, and we're going to be pwned by China and India in short order if someone doesnt do something
- mental health, shit, health in general is on a backward slide
- i'd like to say public transport but thats a state thing i guess
- our foreign policy? Hello? Do we even have one!?

Interesting point about foreign policy. That didn't even come up in the campaign. We're now apparently so parochial that all we care about is scary people on fucking boats.

I know right. I mean, Afghanistan/Iraq aside (and even that only seems to get a lookin when some digger dies), what are we doing about good relations with China? India? Indonesia? Looking after our pacific island neighbours? At least Rudd had a handle on that shit. Or seemed to.

lol for someone who goes on about how I dont GAF about politics I sure do spout shit.

Lollllllllll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pNDLzx9vyU

This feller reckons Labor will pick up 73 seats in votes alone and Lib/Nat 71. Best case ALP 74 and Coalition 72. Either way, he reckons Labor is best positioned to lead.

They may still scrape in, for sure. The fact no one party is in solid power is immensely pleasing to me, tbh.

Mainly because hey, this is real democracy at work!

Today is only vote-checking btw. Postal counting starts tomorrow.

xxp depends on who can suck the most independent arse but yeah, scrape, and I'm pretty damned pleased that nobody won too because it'll give both sides the shock they need to bloody well stand for something.

Did anyone just see TA's THREE MINUTE press conference?

He was cranky, demanded government, didn't answer any questions and then ran off to answer his boatphone.

what a jerkwad

Parsed that as batphone, still made sense.

ok ive just polished off a bottle of wine now what.

fuck shit up

hmm i have three-quarters of a bottle of red left over from my bolognese.. but i dunno that i'm feeling all that boozey today

Didn't Floyd teach you ANYTHING? man.

loool

i would have used more but y'know liquid in slow cooker etc etc

Loving all the Green stuff, worried about other stuff. Still, mostly I'd rather cranky independents pushing their constituencies (you know, the way they are ELECTED to do) than numerous value-free party flacks who do what they're told. But a Tony Abbott/Bob Katter govt does scare the shit out of me.

Now that the campaign's over Abbott doesn't have to be nice to people or pretend to be pleasant or answer questions or wear foundation anymore.

Fuck, just spent a thousand bucks on cameras.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/08/22/Independents_seem_to_favour_NBN_503073.html

Mr Katter, who was returned in the north Queensland seat of Kennedy, has nominated broadband as high on his list of priorities, and is completely against it being privately run.

Mr Windsor, from New England, in northern NSW, is of like mind.

He came out swinging against the coalition's 'retrograde' plan, saying it would be a disaster to leave it to competition to deliver broadband to country Australia.

Mr Windsor said it was time to get on with the National Broadband Network - 'the railway of the 21st century'.

Meanwhile, Mr Oakeshott's passion for broadband can be traced back to his maiden speech.

In it, he reflected on students and business in his NSW mid-north coast seat battling with dial-up connections.

He has welcomed Labor's network and plans for government to be its majority owner.

xxp depends on who can suck the most independent arse but yeah, scrape, and I'm pretty damned pleased that nobody won too because it'll give both sides the shock they need to bloody well stand for something.

I don't think this is right. I mean, it'd be great if it was, but what is clear about Labour and Liberal both is that "pandering to the idiot middle" is such an article of faith to them that it becomes the answer to everything (in the same way that "deregulation and the free market" is the answer to everything for neoliberals).

More likely, people on both sides of politics will think "well clearly we didn't do enough to stake out the rooty hill middle ground, next time we won't make that mistake." Working with a host of crossbenchers in both house of parliament likewise ought to stimulate proper policy discussion but is more likely to result in both parties rushing to spend the next three years proclaiming themselves better placed to please everybody by standing for nothing.

Only super strong majorities (preferably in both houses) encourage the big parties to actually re-open their policy scrapbook and try to work out what they really care about - hence Howard spruiking Workchoices in 2005-2006.

Whether he lets the mask slip a bit now, Abbott won't actually revert to being a (psycho) "conviction politician" unless and until he feels confident that he's got public confidence to burn. Of course the sad part about the Labour party, which has totally internalised the story that the Howard govt told about it, is that it's totally developed this nervous marsupial fear that the slightest shift in political sentiment will result in a collapse in public support, so it becomes terrified of proudly selling itself even when it's got something to sell - which itself then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sorry for cynical here, but I grew up in the bush/regional towns and I'm afraid that 80% of people dont apply a modicum of thought whatsoever to voting. So much of this doesnt matter.

"Gillard is a lady, I'll vote for her"
"Gillard is a ranga, fuck it I'll vote liberal"
"I WANT GIGABIGABIT INTERWEBS I'll vote whoever's gonna do that"
"Bargle internet filter I want my porn NO LABOR"
"Abbot is a fine upstanding christian man who opposes gays and abortion so voting for him"

... etc etc

Too true. My ma-in-law is all about working with downtrodden groups, the elderly, etc, but then it comes election time and it's 'Family First is against gays', and she votes for tem.

(x-post) Yeah for sure, but I think that may be Tim's point too. Both sides are pandering to the swinging voters, and it just looks as though they don't vote according to policies, but for trivial reasons such as those you've mentioned. A good argument against compulsory voting, maybe? Because many swinging voters wouldn't vote at all if they didn't have to? I might be wrong about that, I don't know.

Isn't that Downfall parody brilliant?

@Noodle: we had an awesome Coalition government for 14 years already, remember

xxpost - It's the choice of pandering to the idiot middle versus pandering to the fringes. Non-compulsory voting would basically encourage all of (non-Brisbane) Queensland to turn into the Katter state and the libs to play to that nakedly, while Vic would throw up several greens reps. I'm not sure which is better/worse...

There's no good argument against compulsory voting, i reckon.

UK has non-compulsory voting, and they got the same result a few months ago.

Fair enough.

Likely scenarios over the next 1-2 weeks? Anyone dare to hazard a guess?

If labor can clinch enough of the undecideds it'll be able to form government with Bandt and Wilkie and not need the rural jurors.

At least with compulsory voting we know no one's stacking shit with forced vote pushes which I guess is the idea.

I do wonder about that in the US - lots of vocal, agitant fundies pushing votes their way while pabst-drinkin hipsters sit back going "eh whatevs".

hey folks, please post any actual developments here, but keep just reacting mystifyingly to non-significant half-counts and recounts. this is making me excitingly nostalgic for last time I was in London and reading AA's Worm Liveblogging!

aw

Tim F & Trayce: I do see your relative points, but I still think capturing imaginations would have made a difference. I think Rudd got in because (a) Howard was by then quite revolting and (b) the whole Kevin 07 thing looked attractive and prime ministerial. That majority batch of dumb turds and dumb turds in western Sydney were zombie-swayed by that just as this year they were zombie-swayed by nothing at all. The 'stop the boats' mantra cut through to Abbott's support base (which would have voted for him anyway) but I think most other people were just pinning the tail on the donkey. The huge number of informal votes adds weight to that theory.

I have to admit that watching the 3 rural indies on 7:30 Report last night actually gave me quite a bit of hope. Didn't sound as though any of them were keen to line up with Abbott & co. And they were articulate and smart and positive. Although not sure what Bob Katter was on about when he was talking about "giant flying foxes" killing people more than taipans do.

it's so hard to imagine ex-national mp's lining up with labor but since it's so much worse imagining abbott as pm i'm giving it my best shot.

the entire gold coast is now lnp, which is not really surprising given what people here are like but it's still :(
i do think it is partly bligh's fault though, her government is awful.

it's so hard to imagine ex-national mp's lining up with labor but since it's so much worse imagining abbott as pm i'm giving it my best shot.

They really want broadband and renewable energy, apparently, and they really hate Barnaby Joyce.

Although not sure what Bob Katter was on about when he was talking about "giant flying foxes" killing people more than taipans do.

well, colour me intigued

Suggested thread title: Katter Mong the Pigeons

oh the hilarity @ "punters back bill shorten as next ALP leader". i mean what?

NINE

oh and 7. First ever elected Greens MP!!!1 IN THE HOUSE OF REPAZENT

― Doug Antony Green (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:06 (2 days ago)

RONG ADMAN!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Cunningham

(funnily enough I'm there right now)

here's a pleasing update:

http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/

though i think wilkie would have been fine also

oh the hilarity @ "punters back bill shorten as next ALP leader". i mean what?

careful now

Q&A tonight should be good. Tony Windsor! Turnbull! Arbib! Richo! Electricsound favourite, Sarah Hanson-Young!

And, er, Janet Albrechtsen? WHY?

Sarah Hanson-Young!

she may be young but she's no hanson

Oooh S-, nice to know.

Amazing collection of mostly post-election quotes from the three indies.

This next three years could be GREAT fun!

"If it's up to me, then the gong goes to whoever's going to give us the right to survive and I couldn't care less whether they're the Labor Party, the Liberal Party or the callithumpian mongoloid party."

love this

raggin' on barnaby never gets old

QandA panel includes Richardson, Turnbull, Arbib, fucking Albrechtcunt, Hanson-Young and Tony Windsor. A+++++++++++++

(Gillard pulled Arbib because she believes campaign issues should not be discussed in a forum about campaign issues)

Oh fuck, I've just ignored the last 30 posts haven't I? IGNORE

katten looking a bit less like a loveable scamp

surprised he can talk with all that mining penis in his mouth

lol

http://doesaustraliahaveagovernmentyet.com/

abbott refuses to let treasury cost coalition policies for the independents = dude, NOT A GOOD LOOK.

Trying to hide something or just dumb as a bag of hammers? My money's on both.

As someone said on LJ earlier, "he's playing hardball when he doesn't even control the goal". Does he not see how arrogant that makes him look? FFS.

Oh and he'd be hiding something. I've worked for the govt. You know the Hollowmen? That ain't even *remotely* exaggerated.

Yep. If his figures were in order he'd have submitted them by week three of the campaign; he wouldn't have kept them secret until six hours before the political advertising window closed, and he certainly wouldn't be holding back now.

Abbott's false façade was remarkable during the campaign, but obviously he can't keep it up, and now he's not even trying. It really is as though he's decided (a) he doesn't have to pretend to be nice anymore because everyone's voted and (b) he thinks he won the election by rights. The latter is hardly an excuse given that the ALP was so crap that I could have defeated them by scratching my arse and blinkingfor five weeks.

well clearly you didn't do one of those or you'd be PM right now

it's too late to start blinking now

I just hope he keeps shooting himself badly over and over in the foot... and then they have to call a re-vote.

HA!

yes, i'm pleased to see abbott back to his normal, self-sabotaging ways.

I don't want a revote. I want Labor to get over the line just enough that Abbott is not PM but not enough to actually do anything. The Greens will control everything from July anyway.

Revote would probably give all those Greens votes back to Labor, so it would win convincingly and push that fucking filter. No thanks.

Hm, possible point.

I'm yet to be convinced the greens'll have any teeth, but we'll see I suppose.

I don't want a revote. I want Labor to get over the line just enough that Abbott is not PM but not enough to actually do anything. The Greens will control everything from July anyway.
Revote would probably give all those Greens votes back to Labor, so it would win convincingly and push that fucking filter. No thanks.

Mostly this, though the filter is so low on my list of Labor fuck-ups.

Lucky that Labor is putting extra federal funding into hospitals because Tony Abbott needs a Waaaaaaambulance, rite.

What's today's reason for no costings? Reds under the bed? Labor is conducting a counterfeiting operation? Dog ate his homework?

According to Michelle Grattan his excuses are 'too small a fig leaf to cover his budgie real motives'.

Tony's giving up the costings now. Well hello, Mr Flip Flop!

You just knwo if it was jools who'd done this he'd be savaging her like a rabid mutt right now.

He found an excuse to savage her regardless. Revolting prick forgot for a few days that he needs to win friends atm.

I'm a bit over all this, how about Seven's new version of The X Factor?

His hubris is astounding, acting as if the Government saying it won't leak his info is some amazing concession that establishes his political prowess and entitlement to rule.

i can't believe that freak is so close to being pm.

To be fair to Big Ears, believed entitlement to rule and epic stroppiness when that does not occur is a great tradition on the conservative side of Australian politics.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/28/2996007.htm

The United Nations' anti-racism panel says there is "embedded" discrimination in Australia.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) says ongoing prejudice against Aboriginals exists despite political pledges.

It criticises what it calls the "unacceptably high level of disadvantage and social dislocation" for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory.

The committee also raised concerns about the handling of refugees and asylum seekers, as well as anti-terrorism measures; discrimination against newer, mainly Muslim, ethnic communities; and assaults on foreign students.

CERD also voiced concerns that the policy of processing refugees outside Australia meant that people seeking shelter in Australia were not being treated properly.

The committee's recommendations were issued in a report following a regular review of Australia's compliance with an international treaty of 1969 prohibiting racism.

GO AUSSIE

uh no shit

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/29/2996351.htm

Australia 'pretending racism isn't there'

The Race Discrimination Commissioner says the next federal government must amend the constitution to make it impossible to suspend the Racial Discrimination Act.

The act was suspended in 2007 to roll out the Northern Territory intervention in Aboriginal communities and has yet to be fully reinstated.

A United Nations report has condemned the intervention saying it shows discrimination is structurally embedded in Australia.

Commissioner Graeme Innes says the UN committee was shocked at the Federal Government's policy in the Northern Territory.

"The actions that needed to be taken in the Northern Territory could have been done on a non-discriminatory basis," he said.

"So what the committee is recommending to Australia is not only we completely remove the suspension - which we haven't yet done - but we entrench in the constitution a provision so that never again can race discrimination law be suspended in Australia."

Mr Innes says Australia is in denial about being a racist country.

"We need to do much better in terms of having a national multicultural policy, which we haven't had for almost 15 years, which includes an anti-racism strategy," he said.

"I think the problem for Australia is that we try to pretend that racism isn't there. What we need to do is face the facts that there are elements of racism in this country and take some positive action to address it."

Spot on.

from crikey mailout today:

From the grassy knoll... MY SON WORKES FOR LABOR ,CATERING FOOD ,DRINKS ECT.HE TOLD ME THAT ONE OF THE WORKERS [RAYMOND] IS A LIBERAL MOLL,WHO IS IN CONTACT WITH LAURIE OAKES ON A REGULAR BASIS, RAY WAS IN CHARGE OF DRINKS AT THE MEETING,WHEN SO CALLED LEAKES WERE PASSED ON TO LAURIE, ALL THE STAFF SAY NOONE OTHER THAN RAY.HAD THAT INFO TO PASS ON.LAURIE WAS HAPPY TO HAVE KEVIN RUDD BLAMED FOR THE LEAK TO CAUSE HARM TO LABOR ELECTION CHANCES. I REMEMBER IN ABOUT 2002-3 WHEN LAURIE MEDDLED IN A DIVORCE ACTION KNOWING HIS NAME WOULD CARRY WEIGHT .AND IT DID CAUSING QUITE A LOT OF HATE AMONG THOSE INVOLVED. SO LAURIE CAME OUT ON T.V RADIO AND IN THE PAPERS TO APPOLAGISE TO ALL ,BUT IT DID NOT WORK AS HE IS STILL A NASTY BIT OF WORKES . ALL MY FRIENDS AT MY GOLF CLUB SAY IT IS HARD TO BELEIVE ANYTHING THAT OAKES GUY SAY'S AS HE IS COMPEATING A LOT OF YOUNG POLLY GERNO'S AND HE IS TO OLD.RELIES ON HEARSAY MORE AND MORE.

so now u kno

POLLY GERNO'S

Could not resist, in fack

It's more than Laurie's name that carries weight...

uhh why are election ads running again? did i miss the announcement of a 2nd poll?

yes news limited has called another poll and they'll keep doing it until "the right result"

lool

eh i think it was just the retailers industry continuing to whinge about how nobody buys cigarettes anymore or something

lol their site got hacked earlier today

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/smoking-kills-says-big-tobacco-on-hacked-plain-packaging-campaign-site/

oh god just give us a new election already

katter & wilkie should both be strung up

I put 774 on this morning whilst puttin my shoes on and came in mid-Katter rant. He was spitting bile about ethanol additives or some crap. He sounds like such an angry man. I mean its great to have a passsion for your beliefs but when you cloak it in such bile, why would anyone want to vote for you?

he's a horrorshow, it's annoying when people who aren't used to his dumbass hick schtick think he's some kind of 'character'.

At first when I'd put the radio on, I thought I was listening to a shouty old football commentator :/

COSTINGS

Finding #1: A 'black hole' of 'between $7b and $11b' in the Coalition's costings. ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS. ELEVEN FUCKING BILLION.

abbott a lying dumbass, news at 11

LOVE IT.

calm down adam, it may well only be a paltry 7 billion.

According to Robb it's only a 'difference of opinion' SO STOP PANICKING ORRITE

Okay so Gillard won over Wilkie by giving him $100m for a hospital but ffs look at this:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/02/3001083.htm

Julia Gillard has attacked the Coalition's economic credentials amid revelations Opposition Leader Tony Abbott offered a $1 billion hospital upgrade to help win the support of independent MP Andrew Wilkie.

ONE BILLION DOLLARS. ONE BILLION. ONE FUCKING BILLION.

http://briancromer.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/dr_evil.jpg

I seem to recall making a joke about the leaders putting out for an extra seat but I WAS JOKING.

Yeah that made me go o_0 completely. Surely that level of money could, gee I dunno, go on MUTIPLE HOSPITALS?

this is good in a way, now if the other indies go with abbott they will look suspect and greedy.

Grattan:

The idea that so much money could be tossed out to buy the vote of one independent is offensive. Why should the people of Hobart be so potentially advantaged, while those in Wagga Wagga, for example, where the hospital is a disgrace, do not get such priority and largesse? [...] The Treasury costings have struck at his economic credibility argument. The $1 billion offer makes him look like a spendthrift.

Dumbarse Tony had people fooled on his economic responsibility claims until this week. He didn't expect all this to be thrust into the public sphere in the situation we're in now. Delicious.

Herald Scum showing the usual balance today. Headline is '100M FOR ONE VOTE'. No front-page election coverage all week when Abbott was falling to pieces.

Newspoll finds most people want a Labor govt, so Today's Oz headline is about the Greens pursuing same-sex marriage as part of a 'radical agenda'. I'm not joking. Murdoch is desperate as hell to force the outcome of this thing.

Gave up reading the Oz about 6 months ago, was so sick of their biased coverage of politics. So glad Rupert ain't getting any of my money.

amusingly, if abbott gets in and puts a freeze on public service hiring, one of the biggest casualties will be... the australian, which is the biggest recipient of APS advertising in the country. ha ha ha!

I don't read the Oz, I just see covers of it in shops and at work. I don't even touch the thing lest I break out in a big racist rash.

And yes, I don't give Rupert anything. I don't buy his papers, his Foxtel, HarperCollins books etc etc.

according to a banner on the age page there's going to be an announcement at 2pm.

anxious

i am too, and also a bit irritated at how this is being staged like a masterchef finale.

but if they go with green/labor i'll forgive them.

3pm now

what is wrong with these people

welp, katter continues to prove himself a worthless sack of shit

yes

I'm mates w/his nephew. kindof lol that my closest connections w/pollies (admittedly not close at all!) are with him and bb

I thought Katter was insane, but he absolutely slayed on Q&A last night.

it's time, fuckos.

tell us.

so...

waffle waffle

stfu and tell us.

windsor goes to labor.

woo tony windsor

fu barnaby joyce

fubar naby joyce

quiet people who say who they'll support vs people who cant shut up

haaa

cmon cmon going mad here

we know all this you've saying all this for 17 days

since this is all obviously to appease his constituents it must be labor

looool http://doesaustraliahaveagovernmentyet.com/

someone at my work just found a twitter channel called Oakshottmilkingit

lool

at both

now the press are making muttering sounds

http://doesaustraliahaveagovernmentyet.com/ has just gone YES

http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/cute-puppy-pictures-blah-blah-talking.jpg

i now have full sympathy for everyone on each side who has tried to negotiate with this windbag.

FINALLY

And Labor has it

Now I can breathe again

I want a reaction shot from Abbott!

lol fu tony abbott

updated thread title

Most excellent sentiment!

lol!

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/09/07/1225915/085761-stephanie-rice-jaguar.jpg

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i'm glad they did it without katter.

i bet that wily old bugger wanted this outcome anyway.

he reckoned he might flip to labor if the other two did, according to the age article

you know, so he can go "well her's my decision" to appease electorate, but then go "hey y'know STABILITY" and switch

and then maybe wrestle a killer flying fox out of a tree

Listening to the journos on News24--one of them tried to ask a question and was talked over, and you could loudly hear her say, "Oh, fuck!"

i thought i just heard that too, on sky news.

haha yeah

Now fuckface barnaby being mr sour grapes

haha

Oh hotdog we have a weiner? I wasnt even paying attention, lol.

whinge whinge whinge goes the joycey

Katter : not needed by Labor to form government, and of no use to the Liberals now that they won't form government.

ie a waste of space.

the colt from old regret has got away

least favourite prominent Australian homophobe of the moment imo

gillard's better again, it was painful listening to her during the campaign when she was awkwardly trying to get people to like her.

in b4 a good solid whinge from Mr. Rabbit

gillard's better again, it was painful listening to her during the campaign when she was awkwardly trying to get people to like her.

― estela, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 16:41 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

This. Also too glad for words that that big-eared ultra-bigoted arsehat is not our prime minister.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2324814/FuckYouAbbott.gif

lolll @ the cover of the scum: "GOOD LUCK AUSTRALIA"

i wish someone would use 'suck on that abbotts' as a headline.

lolll @ the cover of the scum: "GOOD LUCK AUSTRALIA"

― the behringer escape plan (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 08:41 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

One would think that that were an ilx joke until one saw the freaking headline in the flesh.

Can't wait to see the Oz's sulking front page.

Suck on those sour grapes Rupert. LOL.

Ah, the Oz is all 'GILLARD'S TIGHTROPE' (note the use of caps coz Big John Harto is ANGRY).

I'm mildly relaxed about this because eww Abbott, but I fully expect Gillard to be one of the least distinguished PMs we have. And if they knife her and put in Shorten, then call me a Liberal.

Even t'Age sez "LABOR TIGHTROPE" I think.

This is the shittiest election ever, what a joke.

Very representative, though. Every two-party result indicates precisely the ennui felt by the whole country this time round.

I dunno. I still think there were the usual rabid 35-40% who will always vote for the ALP, ditto the 35-40% who will always vote for the coalition. The ennui is really just everyone else.

Yar.

Have to say I agree with the 'Scum.

We're gonna need it.

meh

there is no outcome that would really have us better off

... Another election would be preferable to start with.

Abbott's "kinder, gentler polity" didn't last long. Unsurprisingly.

You have to wonder what the fuck the point is, if the election outcome'll be vastly different if we have multiple of em.

Why not have best of five or something, in that case.

I think this election proved that people are fed up with both parties - hopefully a warning has been given and we can have a proper outcome without pandering to independents.

and bigots

Guys, really.

<3

TPP count latest update, not that it matters now but i like seeing the coalition losing things:

Australian Labor Party 5,866,277 50.01 -2.69

Liberal/National Coalition 5,865,010 49.99 +2.69

That'll shut up him, possibly.

Wait, no it won't.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NATIONAL TWO PARTY PREFERRED RESULT

Australian Labor Party 5,879,730 50.04 -2.66

Liberal/National Coalition 5,871,015 49.96 +2.66

That's certainly neck-and-neck although Abbott's 'neck' is sort of the base of a penis so prob not a valid conclusion.

Ew. Ewwww.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/09/3007376.htm?site=thedrum

^^this is good

100%

Nice to see someone suggest considering conflict the status quo and reporting things that are remarkable in some way.

the australian wants to destroy the greens apparently

quelle surprise

i hate brussels sprouts too but come on

i don't know why the coalition freaks are apparently trying to force a new election, i'd think labor/greens would be more likely to win right now, and if people have to vote again because of their petty shenanigans they will be punished.

The Coalition's relying upon scares to frighten people away from the EXTREME RADICAL Lab-Grn alliance. If they want to convince us they'd be good at running the county they might want to stop dicking about with scare tactics and actually do something.

julia's is keeping her cool really well so far, hopefully she can continue.

indeed

i have to stop reading crikey because it keeps directing me to blood-boiling australian articles

i wonder if thatcher ever carried a handbag

Geelong certainly did through most of the 1980s and 1990s.

Haw.

But back on topic, could The Australian shove it's head any further up it's own arse without seeing daylight through it's mouth? I mean, seriously. Where is the questioning of Abbott's failure to win a two-horse race?

I found out a friend of mine from high school ended up being a journo for the Aus. I was appalled.

Then again she was a bit of a cow, so.

That Annabel Crabb article made me want to punch walls. She has a fucking nerve saying that sort of thing when her oh so wacky caricatures passing for serious analysis are a MAJOR part of the problem she herself is talking about. She writes about politics as if it's sport, which it isn't, because sport just affects those who watch it. Politics affects EVERYONE and demands SERIOUS FUCKING COVERAGE of policies, their effects, rather than bullshit about personality and personal foibles which is all she deals in. She should be fired.

I would disagree vehemently with you if she weren't the ABC's online chief political writer. There are loads of people at the ABC who could be doing that job and producing serious work: Uhlmann, Kelly, Colvin, Cassidy, Ewart, etc etc. Dunno why they poached her for such an important position.

Also re Murdoch's cuntitude his crap has always been biased but I've never seen anything like this. He's not trying to hide it at all anymore. I dunno how long it'll be before he just sticks 'GILLARD IS A CUNT' on all the front pages.

Yesterday my mother told me thing were now so bad that 'even' the Herald Scum was warning people about the 'wild ride'. 'It says "GOOD LUCK AUSTRALIA"!!' she said. I explained for the billionth time Murdoch's incredible bias but it doesn't get through to the converted zombies.

talking to people in murdoch mouthpiece mode is infuriating.

it happens a lot up here, the coalition serfs are mean spirited and ignorant and total smug fucks about their dumb politics that they inherited, and hung onto, and will never think about or change. they are too foolish to see that they never benefit from their own votes.

Basically, and this is just my opinion, everyone at this stage is a cunt except for Bob Brown.

And the dude that does the First Dog cartoons on Crikey.

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/09/09/1917261/wyatt_roy1-420x0.jpg

faantastische

post-election backslapping has been A+++ all round iirc

kill both imo (xp)

that kid's gunna be pm one day

he's so squeaky.

this 4 Corners episode about the Katter/Windsor/Oakeshott 17-day alliance is fantastic, and should be interesting even to any non-mongs popping into the thread out of curiosity. All made from footage shot with them during the limbo period, and kept in confidence at the time.

Oakers bursting through Windsor's door while Abbott's inside, attempting to explain why it's impolite to ask him if he's full of it when he lies to the country, is the funniest thing I've seen on TV this year.

Haha I'll have to investigate this.

BTW - main program is in the left sidebar, web-only follow-up interviews in the main pane.

^^ shill for the public broadcaster