Australian Elections 2013

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My prediction is that the Australian Labor Party will lose seats in Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria but could pick up some in Queensland. This would mean Labor has a net loss of seats but not enough to give the Coalition a majority, as they would also lose seats in Queenslamd to KAP.

Not to mention the fact that now that Tony Windsor has backed an independent candidate in his NSW electorate of New England, its entirely possible that this independent could win and go on to supply the ALP a governing majority in the House of Representatives.

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My prediction is that the Australian Labor Party will lose seats in Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria but could pick up some in Queensland. This would mean Labor has a net loss of seats but not enough to give the Coalition a majority, as they would also lose seats in Queensland to KAP.

Not to mention the fact that now that Tony Windsor has backed an independent candidate in his NSW electorate of New England, its entirely possible that this independent could win and go on to supply the ALP a governing majority in the House of Representatives.

Personally, I don't think a minority government led by Rudd would last 3 years, given his reputation for being a hard colleague to work with.

[Australasia]

Not to mention the fact that now that Tony Windsor has backed an independent candidate in his NSW electorate of New England, its entirely possible that this independent could win and go on to supply the ALP a governing majority in the House of Representatives.

Personally, I don't think a minority government led by Rudd would last 3 years, given his reputation for being a hard colleague to work with.

I acknowledge the latter part of your sentence, but nonetheless I doubt any ALP government would break apart on that account.

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Personally, I don't think a minority government led by Rudd would last 3 years, given his reputation for being a hard colleague to work with.

I acknowledge the latter part of your sentence, but nonetheless I doubt any ALP government would break apart on that account.

Well say Bob Katter gives him support. If Rudd saids no to any of Katter's demands, Katter will drop support for him. And Katter's Party might have more than one seat so that could matter.

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I acknowledge the latter part of your sentence, but nonetheless I doubt any ALP government would break apart on that account.

Well say Bob Katter gives him support. If Rudd saids no to any of Katter's demands, Katter will drop support for him. And Katter's Party might have more than one seat so that could matter.

You don't suppose Katter will make any outrageous demands now you?

Knowing Katter it's entirely possibly... but perhaps having responsibility will make him, well, more responsible.

Katter's party will at max, if lucky, receive two seats. I really don't see them getting anything more.

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Well say Bob Katter gives him support. If Rudd saids no to any of Katter's demands, Katter will drop support for him. And Katter's Party might have more than one seat so that could matter.

You don't suppose Katter will make any outrageous demands now you?

Knowing Katter it's entirely possibly... but perhaps having responsibility will make him, well, more responsible.

Katter's party will at max, if lucky, receive two seats. I really don't see them getting anything more.

I have seen polling that shows Katter will retain his own seat plus gain the seat of Maranoa, in far western Queensland.

Hopefully he will be more responsible.

[Australian Antarctica]

Other.

[Australasia]

You don't suppose Katter will make any outrageous demands now you?

Knowing Katter it's entirely possibly... but perhaps having responsibility will make him, well, more responsible.

Katter's party will at max, if lucky, receive two seats. I really don't see them getting anything more.

I have seen polling that shows Katter will retain his own seat plus gain the seat of Maranoa, in far western Queensland.

Hopefully he will be more responsible.

And hopefully that includes supplying a governing majority to Rudd, if needed (or even better, the ALP winning outright of course).

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I have seen polling that shows Katter will retain his own seat plus gain the seat of Maranoa, in far western Queensland.

Hopefully he will be more responsible.

And hopefully that includes supplying a governing majority to Rudd, if needed (or even better, the ALP winning outright of course).

Hopefully. (That is, giving the government supply, not a Rudd victory. I don't want that.)

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And hopefully that includes supplying a governing majority to Rudd, if needed (or even better, the ALP winning outright of course).

Hopefully. (That is, giving the government supply, not a Rudd victory. I don't want that.)

Er, and why not?

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Hopefully. (That is, giving the government supply, not a Rudd victory. I don't want that.)

Er, and why not?

They have had six years and they haven't really made it work. Abbott doesn't sound too bad to me, so I think that he should get a go at government.

[Australasia]

Er, and why not?

They have had six years and they haven't really made it work. Abbott doesn't sound too bad to me, so I think that he should get a go at government.

Heavens me. Mad Abbot? Not too bad? The fellow who has made explicit racist, sexist, and homophobic comments in the past?

A Coalition government with Malcom Turnbull as Prime Minister, fine. Abbot? Oh dear God no!

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They have had six years and they haven't really made it work. Abbott doesn't sound too bad to me, so I think that he should get a go at government.

Heavens me. Mad Abbot? Not too bad? The fellow who has made explicit racist, sexist, and homophobic comments in the past?

A Coalition government with Malcom Turnbull as Prime Minister, fine. Abbot? Oh dear God no!

See people are scared of Abbott because of all the stupid things he has said. And he has said stupid things. But he is not going to act on those comments because he would lose popular support.

Although his homosexuality being the "fashion of the moment" comment did lose a lot of my respect.

[Australasia]

Heavens me. Mad Abbot? Not too bad? The fellow who has made explicit racist, sexist, and homophobic comments in the past?

A Coalition government with Malcom Turnbull as Prime Minister, fine. Abbot? Oh dear God no!

See people are scared of Abbott because of all the stupid things he has said. And he has said stupid things. But he is not going to act on those comments because he would lose popular support.

Although his homosexuality being the "fashion of the moment" comment did lose a lot of my respect.

That's irrelevant. No one making explicit racist, sexist, and homophobic comments should be rewarded with the office of Prime Minister.

A coalition government headed by Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister would be entirely fine, but not Abbot.

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See people are scared of Abbott because of all the stupid things he has said. And he has said stupid things. But he is not going to act on those comments because he would lose popular support.

Although his homosexuality being the "fashion of the moment" comment did lose a lot of my respect.

That's irrelevant. No one making explicit racist, sexist, and homophobic comments should be rewarded with the office of Prime Minister.

A coalition government headed by Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister would be entirely fine, but not Abbot.

I can agree with you that Malcolm Turnbull is much more desirable.

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That's irrelevant. No one making explicit racist, sexist, and homophobic comments should be rewarded with the office of Prime Minister.

A coalition government headed by Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister would be entirely fine, but not Abbot.

I can agree with you that Malcolm Turnbull is much more desirable.

So does the vast majority of Australians, of course.

Now that aside, out of curiosity, if you are Australian, and are voting in this election, how will you be working out your House of Representatives ballot (if you don't mind telling)?

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I can agree with you that Malcolm Turnbull is much more desirable.

So does the vast majority of Australians, of course.

Now that aside, out of curiosity, if you are Australian, and are voting in this election, how will you be working out your House of Representatives ballot (if you don't mind telling)?

Well I am Australian but not yet of legal voting age. Since I don't know all of the candidates running in my seat, I will just use the five parties I know are

1: Palmer United Party (Only out of protest of the major parties)
2: Liberal National Party
3: Australian Greens
4: Australian Labor Party
5: Family First Party

[Maqo]

Well I'm in Julie Bishop's electorate... the safest Liberal seat in the country. So my vote really doesn't matter.
I'll vote:
1: Greens
2: Labour
3: Liberal
4/5/6: Any conservative christian special interest party.

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Things were going okay for the ALP.

And then Rudd abused a makeup artists and ridiculed a trainee journalist in the space of two days, firmly stamping himself as the biggest cunt on the ballot. What an angry, arrogant and deluded little turd this jumped up shit is.

I don't think that is going to change much people already know he is a rude cunt and treat's his 'inferiors' in contempt.

As for the make up artist incident, how arrogant of him to say that he doesn't take offense to her comments. He was rude to her and then he has the audacity to say that he holds nothing against her. Get over yourself you pompous twat.

I think it would look extremely bad for all of us if we elected a person of very poor character to office. So that rules out Abbott and Rudd. Word on the street has it that Abbott "is a great guy when you meet him" but he has a short temper and pretty vicious opinions of anyone not like himself so people who think he's a great guy must be white, male and Christian. Rudd is just a cunt.

[Dazchan]

Voting in Lindsay here:

1. David Lenton (Greens) - I've been a Greens supporter for many years, due to their environmental and social policies.
2. Geoff Brown (Stable Population Party) - When I first heard of the SPP, I assumed they'd be a rght-wing xenophobic anti-immigrant party. In reality, their policies are surprisingly centrist.
3. Fiona Scott (Liberal Party) - More of a prostest vote against Labor than anything else. Plus she has sex appeal.
4. David Bradbury (Australian Labor Party) - Loses his position above Fiona Scott because he doesn't support marriage equality despite his electorate's support of it and has not returned correspondence with me at all for the last three years. Basically, I feel he thinks he's above the people. That attitude does not sit well with me.
5. Andrew Wilcox (Palmer United Party) - no comment
6. Andrew Green (Christian Democratic Party) - They'd have me treated as a second class citizen. They'd be at the bottom, if it wasn't for...
7. Jeffrey Lawson (One Nation) - The second of the trilogy of right wing nutjob fringe parties at the bottom of my ballot. They were going to be in the very last spot, but got promoted to the penultimate position when I discovered...
8. Mick Saunders (Australia First Party) - When a young Homer Simpson told his father that he wanted to become president, Abe's response was "We have a whole system in place in this country to keep people like you out!" I felt very much the same when I read the xenophobic, homophobic, incoherent rants on their website.

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8. Mick Saunders (Australia First Party) - When a young Homer Simpson told his father that he wanted to become president, Abe's response was "We have a whole system in place in this country to keep people like you out!" I felt very much the same when I read the xenophobic, homophobic, incoherent rants on their website.

A very humorous summation of my views on the Australia First Party. Also applies to Rise Up Australia.

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8. Mick Saunders (Australia First Party) - When a young Homer Simpson told his father that he wanted to become president, Abe's response was "We have a whole system in place in this country to keep people like you out!" I felt very much the same when I read the xenophobic, homophobic, incoherent rants on their website.

A very humorous summation of my views on the Australia First Party. Also applies to Rise Up Australia.

Rise Up Australia aren't running a candidate in my electorate, so I've done no research on them. The name turns my stomach though.

I just looked at the Greens preference ticket for the Senate. Looks like I'll be voting below the line again.

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A very humorous summation of my views on the Australia First Party. Also applies to Rise Up Australia.

Rise Up Australia aren't running a candidate in my electorate, so I've done no research on them. The name turns my stomach though.

I just looked at the Greens preference ticket for the Senate. Looks like I'll be voting below the line again.

Why? Are they preferencing socialist parties or something?

EDIT: I looked into it and they're preferencing WikiLeaks first.

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I'm now enrolled in the seat of Lalor, Victoria (former electorate of Julia Gillard) and it's a pretty safe Labor seat. Picking a good candidate here is like scraping the dregs from the bottom of the pot.

1. Joanne Ryan (Labor): Probably vote her because Lalor has been well looked after under Labor leadership. Unfortunately it's a vote for Rudd but I'll be less worse off under him I suppose.
2. Nihal Samara (Liberal): Unfortunately it's a vote for Tony Abbot but I trust the Liberals to run a steady electorate more than the other parties.
3. Joe Zappia (Palmer United Party): Wouldn't mind working for big Clive one day. Don't fancy him as a PM too much though. I half agree with his economic policies
4. Beck Sheffield-Brotherton (Greens): I half agree with the Greens social policies (actually, probably fully agree with them) but I can't bring myself to endorse anything else they rant about.
5. Nathan Mullins (Independent): Seems like an alright guy. Harmless
6. Jonathan Page: (Stable Population Party): Think his ideas are a little too national and not enough local. Which is concerning, since they won't win leadership.
7. Angel Harwood: (Sex Party) hehehehe sex
8. Michael Freeman: (Democratic Labour Party). Democratic Labour Party seems like a progressive name but they're actually hardcore catholics. Pass.
9. Geoff Rogers: (Australian Christians) Only gets put behind Freeman because he looks creepier.
10. Daryl Pollard: (Family First Party) FFP are a party of whackjobs. Pass.
11. Marion Vale: (Rise Up Australia) Behind her sweet, innocent grandma-ish personality is the closest party with have to the Nazis in Australia.

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Rise Up Australia aren't running a candidate in my electorate, so I've done no research on them. The name turns my stomach though.

I just looked at the Greens preference ticket for the Senate. Looks like I'll be voting below the line again.

Why? Are they preferencing socialist parties or something?

EDIT: I looked into it and they're preferencing WikiLeaks first.

Which would be hilarious if Assange has to participate in the Senate from the London Embassy.