@ocratato @cobalt123 @mustardon
Without a doubt ! We’ve sold off so many key assets—energy, property, hospitals, infrastructure—that foreign capital now holds us hostage. Successive governments, especially since Howard, have prioritised pleasing global investors over national interest. The result? Policy paralysis and a public priced out of their own country.
#auspol #ausvotes #inequality #vestedInterests #lobbying
Boele currently leading Kapterian by 12 votes in the #Bradfield recount. #AusVotes #AusPol #NailBiter
Kapterian currently leading Boele by 3 votes in #Bradfield. #AusVotes #AusPol #NailBiter
I, for one, live for this chaos of RWNJ fools in the LNP experiencing humiliating failure due to their own incompetence and handing a big win to shitposters on AusPol.
Nationals will not re-enter Coalition agreement
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/nationals-will-not-re-enter-coalition-agreement/105313818
Liberal Party leader Susssan Ley and National Party leader David Littleproud have had a hissy-fit over their Coalition relationship, and have decided it's in the best interests of both parties to have a messy break-up.
The Coalition is dead.
RIP LNP.
The 2025 Federal Election is a gift that keeps on giving.
AEC tweets “Bradfield update: The counting of first preference votes & the indicative two-candidate preferred (TCP) count is now finalised. The indicative TCP margin is 40.” #communityIndependent Nicolette Boele is provisional winner by just 40 votes. Further (re-)counting to come. #ausVotes
Nicolette Boele is the provisional winner in Bradfield by 40(!) votes.
There will be a recount.
Lesson for the Liberals: do the opposite of what Peta Credlin says
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/lesson-for-the-liberals-do-the-opposite-of-what-peta-credlin-says-20250506-p5lx28.html
This article lists fundamental problems with the Liberal Party. Peter Dutton led them to a record defeat — that's largely due to Dutton being a malevolent potato, but his image and message were not helped by the Sky News stooges such as Peta Credlin, who have been parroting the same awful talking-points since the days of Tony Abbott.
Interesting that I've seen two articles recently defending our electoral system.
William Bowe at Crikey:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/16/australia-preferential-voting-system-friday-fight-no/
Kevin Bonham at The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/attacks-on-australias-preferential-voting-system-are-ludicrous-we-can-be-proud-of-it
My 2 cents is I'm ok with current system, but I wish people would better understand the lower house system. Particularly that a party winning lot of seats there doesn't necessarily mean the public directly endorsed that party.
No new information on Bradfield since Thursday. Liberal Party ahead by 43 votes. #ausvotes
Tim Wilson by 206 votes in Goldstein. I don't think there's any more votes to come? #ausvotes
Tim Wilson "Shitting Bricks" About Goldstein Election Result
(Headline has been updated to reflect reality)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/16/australia-news-live-ben-roberts-smith-appeal-verdict-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-6826b2d98f0862c2eaa33f18#block-6826b2d98f0862c2eaa33f18
I heard from my sources that approximately 2/3 of international postal votes are for Teal independent Zoe Daniel. She needs just 258 votes to beat smarmy RWNJ candidate Tim "Freedom Boy" Wilson. 474 votes are yet to be counted, plus 50-100 estimated to arrive before the cutoff midnight tonight.
What the #AusVotes election campaign missed was petty vandalism of coreflutes. Pleased to finally find one.
Lib ahead by just 43 votes in Bradfield. #ausvotes
Could there be a resurgence in Goldstein? Tim Wilson is definitely worried giving instructions to his scrutineers but the ABC election computer still says it's a Lib gain on a 292 vote lead. #ausvotes
Queensland Senator Larissa Waters has been elected as the new leader of the Australian Greens
She is a former environmental lawyer who first entered the senate in 2011
Ultra-close in Bradfield. A few days ago it looked like a Liberal Party retain but the gap has narrowed to 70 votes. Could change at any time. #ausvotes
A good swing to Labor in Longman but it's a LNP retain. #ausvotes
More absentee, provisional, declaration and postal votes have been counted, extending David Smith's lead to 307.
All these vote types are running against Price and there simply aren't enough left to be counted for her to make up that deficit.
I'm sorry to say that David Smith has won, pending any court challenge.
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