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Hoorah!!! Prime Minister ScoMo has been to visit our Governor General & request that a Federal election be held on Saturday 18th May & the election process has started. ScoMo is the third Liberal Party/National Party Government leader in 6 years (2 consecutive terms in office starting with PM Tony Abbott, then PM Malcolm Turnbull & now PM Scott Morrison )
ScoMo's Government had a one seat majority in the House of Representatives.
There's also a Half Senate election, where half of the Senate positions are up for election.

I love how this happens... Not on schedule to suit some media cycle, not two years in advance so you are constantly on a campaign footing. Just within a certain number of years of the last election.

Sireit is vulnerable to politics of the moment messing about. But it still seems more healthy than certain anglophonic nations. So what is the campaign looking like? I'm not up on Australian politics.

Ah ha..little do you all know that WA are planning to exit the Australian we call it waxit. This is a political party I am considering forming..gotta get more votes than Fraser Anning..

Any way on a serious note unfortunately calling an election now still leaves us with no clear party who actually can lead Australia into the future, its picking which one wont train wreck us the worst..not a clearly good option among them.

Any one want to take a bet we end up with a vegan neo nazi tree hugging xenophobe in the senate ??

I am against vegan neo-Nazis and tree-hugging xenophobes.

Hiya ..sorry Just woke up from my coma after watching the debates OMG is that the best we have to choose from.

Its like chosing between a poke in the eye with a burnt stcik and a poke in the other eye with a burnt stick.

Is it the same burnt stick or a different burnt stick?

There is only one burnt stick..

Either we free up wages and there are less jobs which = more money for corporations.
Or we create jobs that are below the cost of living and corporations make more money.
I think i saw one of the banks having a " massive profit deduction down to 3. something billion..I mean for fuggs sake.." we the tax payer saved them during the financial crisis. they screwed us we found out and they still have no real impact on their behavior and bottom line, It is obscene when I see the homeless the aged the mental ill and the working poor . we need a revolution..

When it comes to the crunch a choice bewteen 2 is not really a democracy its the illusion of one.

Kinda like choosing between Woolies and Coles. and calling it a free market. Just ask primary producers how free it is..

Just did my prevote on the weekend..

Two days to go.. the pollsters are uncertain PM Scomo's been busier than a blue arsed blowfly, buzzing about in Queensland, NSW, Tassie.. might pick up two seats there ? & WA. SA is as dull as "maybe Ms Flint.in Boothby will.hold her seat for Scomo's team ..so no change between PM Scomo's team. Sth Aust 4th gen Downer dynastic political family's Georgina Downer might well be heading for 2nd defeat in trying to win back Daddy's seat.from independent Rebekha Sharkie.. so will it be back to Toorak or Kew in sMelbourne for Ms Downer & her law career & a safe spot on the Victorian Liberal Party Senate ticket in 2021?
Queensland.. will Bob Katter & blimp Daddy Warbucks.like(imho) Clivetoad have their stairwell duel ? Or will it be Bob with stockwhip & big hat in Big Four Wheel drive pickup truck v Clive in chaffuer driven Rolls Royce? Clivetoad has spent an estimated $Aus60 million on Advertising nationally and will probably get a Senate spot for 6 years, but it's unlikely that no other of his 100+ candidates will win a spot, but there's a handy payback in vote based electoral funding.
Makes me think Ashby and Dickson may have quoted cheap to the NRA on buying them control of the Australian Senate.
Victoria.. how many will PM Scomo's hang loose ?
NSW.. will former Liberal PM Tony "budgie smugglers" on a bike lose Warringha ? Will MsDoc Phelps hang on in Vaucluse (former Liberal PM Turnbull's seat) or will oily Dave get it back for PM Scomo's hang ? MsDoc Phelps won it when Malcolm Turnbull resigned, defeating oily Dave in a bye election.
As for opposition leader Bill Shorten, the bookies nationally have him at Winx like odds on to be our next PM
Currently the bookies have Billy Shorten at about 12 to 10 odds on & a punter has bet a lazy one million dollars to possibly win $200k .... and they have Team Scomo at about 5 to 1 against.

On a sadder note, former ALP PM Robert James Lee Hawke has died, aged 89. Rhodes scholar, Trade Union leader, took the ALP to a landslide win in 1983 & twelve years in power for the ALP, Hawke won three elections & was PM for approx 9 years with his Treasurer Paul Keating replacing him as PM in late 1989/90? & winning 4th term for ALP.
Hawke's achievements.. . Cooperate IR reforms & introduction of widespread superannuation for workers with big productivity gains for businesses​, universal public health services Medicare.. bit like NHS in UK, & big improvements in secondary & trades education.. big lift in % of students completing 5 years secondary school & going on to tertiary education, .. international.. encouraged the end of apartheid in Sth Africa and led the way to an international treaty banning mining in Antarctica.
From Daffy old MajorMitchell, "Vale Bob" .. a great Australian bloke.

Prime Minister Scomo's team (he's Liberal Party & they're in coalition government with the National Party ..rebranded Country party so a rural regions farmers and pastoralists party with sixteen House of Representatives electorates MPs ) has won.the election, so bold punters in the right wing will be well rewarded. The initial count of 72% of the total vote gives PM Scomo's team 74 seats ( which includes the Nationals 16) There are a few independent MPs, Centre Alliance MP in Mayo, Sth Australia Rebekha Sharkie has won thrice now in Mayo & Georgina Downer has now lost twice trying to win Daddy's old seat.

Bill Shorten the leader of the Australian Labor Party ( trade unions & socialists ) and his gang have 66 seats

So it's team Scomo 72 certain and Bill Shorten's gang 66. Centre Alliance one and five undecided or other independent MPs
One of those five might be Warringah, a blue ribbon Liberal Party seat on Sydney's​ northern beach suburbs (New South Wales) held for a long time by former PM Tony 'budgie smugglers" Abbott which he has lost to. Ms Zali Steggall
I don't know if oily Dave beat MsDoc Phelps in Vaucluse also a Sydney electorate favoured by the wealthy and former Liberal PM Turnbull's old seat.
The swing in Victoria was 1.5% to the ALP
Queensland swung to team Scomo

Bill Shorten has conceded the election and announced that he's giving up the leadership of the ALP but will stay on in Parliament.

House of Representatives, 150 seats.. team Scomo & Mick's 16 Nats have 72, Billy Shorten's ALP gang 66 seats.. independent MPs five and undecided seven.
Senate prediction.. Lib/Nats 34. ALP 27 Greens 9 Centre Alliance 2 Pauline Hanson'our' One Nation 2 independent Ms Lambie from Tasmania & Australian Conservatives one.. Corey Bernardi from Sth Australia.
Clivetoad Palmer spent an estimated $Aus 60-90 million in a United Australia Party campaign with lots of candidates including himself in the Queensland Senate election, wins no seats in either House of Reps or Senate

Scomo's combined team have 78 almost certain seats in a 150 seat House of Representatives. With 78 they can appoint a Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and with 76 left have a slender majority.

Oily Dave will almost certainly beat MsDoc Phelps in Wentworth ( I called it Vaucluse which is a posh Toffs suburb in the electorate )

So being screwed by the devil we know rather than being screwed by the devil we didn't know..

feeble yay from the peanut gallery..

I'm in west Aus the election is always decided before we close voting booths..sooo hmmm there you have it.

Coal is good , fuck the environment, cut the taxs for the rich and big business because that will increase jobs so the working poor will move off the unemployment stats. I see the light at the end of the tunnel appears to be an oncoming train. Im not saying the Labour party would have been better but at least the train would have been a super expensive renewable energy model none could afford rather than the coal fire Flying Scotsman we see lumbering towards us down the tracks.

Its a bit hard to look my 18-22 year old daughter in the eye at the moment.