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must be some incredible spin going on sky news.

MediaWatch show clips of credlin and markson going on how the poles were wrong and dutton was going to be P.M etc.

they were even more wrong than usually.

not to mention the news corpse papers.

bowen got a nice little jab in at them for trumpeting a poll that claim he was he was 20% an independent.
 
Greens leaderless

Just like Poilivere in Canada lost his riding...

 
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Just like Poilivere in Canada lost his riding...


We had three leaders lose in their ridings in our election:
  • Conservatives' Poilievre
  • NDP's Singh
  • Green's Pedneault (co-leader)
Singh and Pedneault stepped down gracefully (although the Greens still have co-leader Elizabeth May, who won her riding). Poilievre, of course, is doing whatever he can to hang on to the leadership, and a sacrificial lamb has agreed to resign in a safe Conservative riding in another province to allow Poilievre to try again.

Congrats to Australia for their Labour landslide. Nice to see you reject RW politics whole-heartedly. We also rejected it, but sadly not quite as full-bore as you did... the Liberals were held to a minority, and the Conservatives still had a very strong showing. Thanks to you for showing the world how it's done.

If we had rejected it as strongly as you have, then perhaps Poilievre would have been forced out by his party regardless. At least Dutton seems to have had the good grace to step away.
 
Congrats to Australia for their Labour landslide. Nice to see you reject RW politics whole-heartedly. We also rejected it, but sadly not quite as full-bore as you did... the Liberals were held to a minority, and the Conservatives still had a very strong showing. Thanks to you for showing the world how it's done.

There was an article on the CBC looking what the likely outcome would have been it trudeau had kept his promise and got rid of first part the post and replaced with a preferential voting system like Australia has.

the conclusion was we'd have majority liberal govt.
 
Quite funny to see people repeating stuff I pointed out a couple of days ago. :lol: Good to know the level of attention my posts attract in this thread. :p But anyway.

Whatever else anyone wants to say about the Greens, the incontrovertible fact remains that they have been the only party in this country to stand up for Palestine and out call the despicable genocide in Gaza for what it is. It's only to be expected that the coalition - in its current form - wouldn't do the same, but it's contemptible that the supposedly progressive Labor lot haven't spoken up. Then again Labor spent all those years in opposition aiding and abetting the coalition's repulsive asylum seeker / refugee policies, so they clearly aren't remotely as progressive as they / people imagine they are. And as usual, portfolios will be allocated according to factions rather than competence / ability.

What a time to be alive.
 
Quite funny to see people repeating stuff I pointed out a couple of days ago. :lol: Good to know the level of attention my posts attract in this thread. :p But anyway.

Whatever else anyone wants to say about the Greens, the incontrovertible fact remains that they have been the only party in this country to stand up for Palestine and out call the despicable genocide in Gaza for what it is. It's only to be expected that the coalition - in its current form - wouldn't do the same, but it's contemptible that the supposedly progressive Labor lot haven't spoken up. Then again Labor spent all those years in opposition aiding and abetting the coalition's repulsive asylum seeker / refugee policies, so they clearly aren't remotely as progressive as they / people imagine they are. And as usual, portfolios will be allocated according to factions rather than competence / ability.

What a time to be alive.

When Labor were in opposition during those times yeah, funny that they never opposed any of the horrible things the coalition were doing, only giving lip service to any concerns. Funny that
 
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