Australian Federal Election - Results Thread

[Cubby]

It's a sign of how long this site has been around that I can remember following the 2004 election here.

The 2004 election was my introduction to Australian politics. I was a huge Mark Latham supporter.

Tony Abbott= Rick Santorum. I can't believe a country more socially liberal than USA might put a guy like that in power. I know most countries care far less about social issues than we do but come on.

I can't believe Labor might lose this. The real question is would they be doing better or worse with Rudd as the leader. Labor's lead has been reduced from 63/50 to 65/56 in the past half hour. Just checked and now its 66/57, with West Australia still left to report.

I hope there isn't a hung parliament, although its preferable to the Liberals winning.

Has there been any planning for a potential Labor-led hung parliament? What parties would that consist of?

[Cubby]

Liberals win back Bennelong  (insert vomiting smiley here)

[Cubby]

Durack (West Australia) has a 5.7% swing to ALP!
Unfortunately its with only 1.5% of votes counted

Canning is even worse, 14.8% to Liberals with 0.1% of vote counted

LOL 0.1% LOL

[Cubby]

Shouldn't this be over?

[Cubby]

Tbh Howard was more brown than blue.

What does this mean? I doubt you mean brown as in "brownshirt". As much as I disliked Howard, he wasn't a committed fascist. You must mean something else.

FWIW, in a ranking of recent anglosphere right-wing leaders, Abbott is near the middle.

David Cameron
John Key
John McCain
Tony Abbott
Stephen Harper
John Howard
George W. Bush

Honestly until this week I thought Abbott was closest to Stockwell Day and Santorum. That list is a huge improvement over my earlier impression of him.