May 18th Federal Election

[KenH]

I had a case of “mancold” where I was on anti-biotics. Unfortunately I experienced side effects. I had a nightmare where I woke up and really thought the Australian public were stupid & gullible enough to pay attention to scaremongering & vote in the right-wing climate change denying & troglodyte dwelling policy vacuum nitwits. Fancy that.

Sorry mate, you better go back to bed for another 3 years, unfortunately the nightmare is real!

[roar]

Perhaps go visit the great barrier reef first. Doubt it will be there in 3 years time.

[stui magpie]

[stui magpie]

Perhaps go visit the great barrier reef first. Doubt it will be there in 3 years time.

10,000 years ago, all the parts that people snorkel now weren't there as sea level was 100m lower. The polyps that make the reef have survived millions of years and multiple climate changes.

[Pies4shaw]

[stui magpie]

^

I'm used to extreme weather, I grew up in country NSW

[David]

[thesoretoothsayer]

Concise, well-written article. Congratulations.

[David]

Thanks!

[KenH]

Great article David, I didn't know about Calwell history! I also agree and hope that Labor don't head more "right" Labor needs to go further left.

[David]

I've been seeing a lot of rubbish on social media about this or that candidate only getting a handful of first-preference votes. See the Tweet below as an example:

https://twitter.com/JohnJohnsonson/stat ... 3235531776

While it would be nice if true, it's a total misunderstanding on at least two levels: 1) these are only provisional figures at this stage, and below-the-line counting has barely started (by the time counting finishes in a fortnight or thereabouts, below-the-line totals for these candidates will likely end up ranging from high hundreds to thousands); and 2) they ignore the fact that candidates like Palmer, Anning and other upper-house party lead candidates are the beneficiaries of all above-the-line votes for their parties, so you can at least add another zero onto to whatever below-the-line tally they end up with.

Here are the final 2016 Queensland senate figures as a case in point:

https://results.aec.gov.au/20499/Websit ... 99-QLD.htm

The reason Anning famously got only 19 votes below the line last time had nothing to do with his personal popularity or unpopularity (pretty much nobody had ever heard of him!). It was because he was the third-placed candidate in a minor party. Nothing remotely similar will happen to him this time around; he'll easily get thousands (though, happily, still not enough to win!).

[David]

Great article David, I didn't know about Calwell history! I also agree and hope that Labor don't head more "right" Labor needs to go further left.

Thanks Ken! Couldn't agree more.

[Morrigu]

You write very well David!

Don't they get nasty when they lose.

Well there's p'd off and the utterance of seemingly uncomplimentary comments and then there is.......

Prabowo Subianto's loss in Indonesia's election sparks deadly protests in Jakarta

Six people have died and 200 have been injured in civil unrest in the Indonesian capital after the election commission confirmed President Joko Widodo had won last month's election, according to Jakarta's Governor

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/ ... y/11138636

[stui magpie]

Great article David, I didn't know about Calwell history! I also agree and hope that Labor don't head more "right" Labor needs to go further left.

Thanks Ken! Couldn't agree more.

The history of the last 20 years suggests if they do that, they'll be in opposition for a generation, battling the Greens for inner city seats.

And yeah, Morrigu, that's some pissed off people, mind you probably put on by the loser rather than a genuine people uprising.

[Jezza]

Great article David, I didn't know about Calwell history! I also agree and hope that Labor don't head more "right" Labor needs to go further left.

Labor can't afford to drift further left, or else they'll become electoral poison.