Australia General Discussion 2.0

[mileslunn]

Abbott was the anti-Obama.
Obama bailed out the Auto industry
Abbott let it die.

Wasn't Abbott the Harper of the Southern Hemisphere.  Essentially both him and Stephen Harper were seen as two sides of the coin.  Interestingly enough both were removed from power right around the same time albeit different methods, Abbott by his party since they knew they were toast with him, while Harper by the electorate (the Tories might have won in Canada if they dumped Harper and got a more centrist leader but that was never going to happen).  I know those two were the most hated in the developed world of conservative leaders so a lot of celebration when both were removed.

[mileslunn]

So the AFP raided AWU offices over a donation from 10years ago and it has all blown up in the governments face after it was revealed that a staffer had tipped off the media. Cannot ing wait to vote this pack of useless s out.

I hope Labor gets a surge from this blatant abuse of power,

Looking at past results it seems in the two party vote both parties have a floor of 47% and ceiling of 53% so Labor is pretty close to its ceiling.  When it comes to first preference that is a different story, but it seems pretty unusual for either to go above 53% or under 47%.

[mileslunn]

Could an election come soon?  Would be interesting to see both New Zealand and Australia go Labour close together as usually it seems Australia and New Zealand more often than not have prime-ministers of opposite political stripes.