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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by teacake, Jun 27, 2014.

  1. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    What about what happened to Catherine Deves stupid person took one for the team and lost her seat
     
  2. PlainSimpleJoel

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    ^ Deves never really had a chance, with a swing against the liberal vote from the previous election. The seat was never her seat.

    There are reports that Pauline Hanson may have lost her senate seat. And also that Labor could get to a majority of 77 seats.
     
  3. Orac Zen

    Orac Zen Mischief Manager Super Moderator

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    Now that would be something to celebrate. :bolian: Pity she and all the other political lunatics Queensland keeps churning out won't just go far, far away.
     
  4. Australis

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    Eric Abetz
    Craig Kelly
    Clive Palmer
    Pauline Hanson
    Josh Frydenberg
    Tim Wilson
    Dave Sharma
    Katherine Deves
    Jason Falinski
    Ken Wyatt
    Fiona Martin
    Katie Allen
    Gladys Liu
    Amanda Stoker
    Ben Mortan
    Trent Zimmerman
    Kristina Kenneally

    There may be more.
     
  5. Australis

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    Qld needs teals not greens.
     
  6. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    Most of the teals are women. Just interesting that it turned out that way too.
     
  7. Australis

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    In a way, deliberate. Women are sick of old stale pale males telling them what to think. Overdue.

    Just looked at the early Senate results. As far as I can tell, not going Labor's way.
     
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  8. Marc

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    and the whinging is already starting with news corpse.

    christopher "the poodle" pyne's latest dribbling in the Adelaide morning murdoch goes on about how the Albanese govt was elected by only 31% of the voters.

    That not only misrepresents the electoral system but ignores that that at 35% the lnp's primary vote wasn't that much better.

    The ABC's Antony Green has also pointed out that teal candidates doing so well was a factor in labor's drop in primary across the country. Given the damage they did to the lnp, they're quite happy with that.
     
  9. PlainSimpleJoel

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    ^ There has been a lot of that dribble on twitter - mostly people from either liberal or those right wing minor parties complaining about that. People have pointing out to them that isn't how the system works. I'm glad we have the system that we do.
     
  10. Gingerbread Demon

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    Oh don't worry more culture wars, that'll fix it /s

    Sky News already says the Liberals should lurch further to the right.

    There are cries of "stolen election" sssshhhh we don't need that kind of rubbish in Australia thank you Americans.....
     
  11. Miss Chicken

    Miss Chicken Little three legged cat with attitude Admiral

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    The greatest thing of all is that if she loses her Senate seat she will most likely lose it to the Legalise Cannabis Party.

    The Legalise Cannabis Party has polled much better than the UAP despite having an extremely small budget and Clive Palmer spending about 100 million on his campaign.
     
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  12. Marc

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    and pretty much all he succesed in doing was pissing people off.

    not the way to get their vote.
     
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  13. Australis

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    Super accurate!

     
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  14. Australis

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  15. Gingerbread Demon

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    That's brilliant.........
    Scotty is blaming the teal independents for his loss and bitching about them.
    @Australis are those legit or great photoshops?
     
  16. Australis

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    I am honestly not sure. I don't think it is. Love to see it if real. Either way, it's good.
     
  17. Gingerbread Demon

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    The LNP has now elected Peter Dutton as leader (we got our first Sontaran as potential PM) /s

    The National party also has a new leader with David Littleproud
     
  18. Miss Chicken

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    I thought Dutton was Voldemort but I can see the resemblance to a Sontaran.

    Normally I feel guilty when I mock someone’s appearance but I don’t feel Quilty when I mock Dutton (same with Trump).
     
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  19. Orac Zen

    Orac Zen Mischief Manager Super Moderator

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    That insults both Sontarans and Voldemort.
     
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  20. PlainSimpleJoel

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    And Labor finally gets a majority.

    I look forward seeing Dutton lose at the next election, but got a feeling that certain media will say he is the greatest person ever. Well almost. Pity there is a John Hewson like person in the Liberal party.