Haven’t seen another post for election updates yet, so creating this. Share your bets on how many times Anthony Green is going to have a screen malfunction.
Good news, apparently Australia does not like politicians who align themselves with fascists
Bad news, not a minority government
Not looking good for the greens at all, I’m really surprised Melbourne has turned on them by the looks of it ?
In the lower house. Senate currently looks likely to have a Greens balance of power. https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/results/senate
Beware the propaganda.
Well to be fair I have felt for a while the greens are a bit lost. It’s a very interesting result - some naval gazing needed I think
Do you think it was the Israel/Palestine stance?
I saved this from 5 months ago: https://aussie.zone/post/15598435/13409792
It’s not just the Israel/Palestine stance (which I don’t want to get into because I’ll get downvoted to heck) but a big part is housing, they were seen (rightly or wrongly) as delaying housing, as someone who voted for MMC to see him doing this killed me
There was other things but a big one that stands out to me was this:
The Reserve Bank should lower interest rates tomorrow and if they don’t, the Treasurer should use his existing powers to bring down interest rates
That is absolutely fucking insane, it might just be the most insane economics policy I’d ever seen, this is Donald Trump tier idiocy, it’s a similar line to wanting to get rid of the Fed Chair in America but even he backed off after realising how badly it would mess things up
The central bank is independent, if the government starts setting the rates then what is the point of the central bank?
There was loads of other things they did
I just hope that the greens take some lessons from this election
I think it would have been the blocking of legislation last year, if anything.
But i have heard the seats they won last time were a bit of fluke narrow path to victory that would be hard to hold, but the ABC are saying they’re marginally increasing overall vote share 12.5% to 12.7%.
So maybe this will be a story about an aberration election, followed by a correction to their tradition of rising broad support across Australia.
If thats the case then they shouldn’t look at tonight’s outcome as a bad result, they gave the Majors their first genuine scare last election, with their vote share rising, this will make it more likely to happen in more diversified seats across the country. Thats a great future for the Greens, what they don’t want is to have a fate like the Nationals where they’re geographically cornered with no real avenue for growth as a Party.
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Removed because i dont wote for religious people, is that allowed? Is atheism allowed?
That is not why your post was deleted.
People of Dickson had an opportunity to do the funniest thing of all term and they took it.
You bloody rippers you <3
On Sky, Andrew Bolt just blamed Elon Musk for Peter Dutton not winning on Donald Trump’s platform.
I just can’t…
Omg, that’s fucking hilarious!
“I won’t mention pre-poll because people ARE drinking when I say ‘pre poll’”
Fucking LOL
Im so fucking drunk
This was my favourite part of tonight hahaha
I was wearing a Nazi uniform in a private Facebook post and it’s the media’s fault that the voting public found out about it. - Jacinta Price
That was some of the most twisted logic I’d ever heard.
I was wearing the hat as a joke, and four words have no meaning, but you need to take me seriously!
WAT?
She makes me sick.
She really has no self-awareness, does she? https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/05/australia-institute-live-election-2025-results/#a87d1a79e7
Dutton was poison and deeply unpopular already in the Scomo years. Looks like people didn’t forget. I’m starting to feel some landslide vibes here early on.
Sink LNP. Bring up some socialists
Pretty big swing against him in Dickson right now. He might lose his own seat.
Did Jacinta just seriously waffle out an implied allegation that the AEC is corrupt? That’s fucking insane.
Had me raising my eyebrows too.
Oh shit wtf did she say?
Hmm, I can definitely see how you’d interpret it as accusing the AEC, but I don’t think that’s it. At worst, it’s accusing the AEC of failing to adequately kerb bad behaviour from Labor. But it was mostly accusing Labor and the media of being abusive. Unhinged, but not, I think, in the way you took it.
The AEC is responsible for ensuring that staffers/volunteers at polling boths are conducting themselves within the bounds of the law and that voters are not intimidated.
If she is alledging that people are being harrassed in line etc and the AEC is not reporting this/involving the police she is alleging AEC corruption.
Feels pretty accurate
A solid concession speech. Can’t imagine such a speech coming from any of the Liberal party’s leaders over the last decade.
Jeez, remember Malcolm Turnbull having a drunken tantrum on election night and threatening to send the AFP after the Labor party… That was his ACCEPTANCE speech.
Agreed. I’m not a fan of Dutton but his concession speech was mainly truth and from the heart. At least he’s somewhat graceful in defeat.
ABC right now: BREAKING: Peter Dutton has lost his seat in parliament
Unreal
I feel sorry for Dutton’s kids. They only have a choice of one out of eight properies each…
Very tough going
Some senator on abc called himself a reagan republican. The man should be arrested for treason.
I implore you, as an American who has witnessed the generational devastation that has resulted from the Reagan presidency, throw anyone who says that into the middle of the fucking Pacific.
Mcgrath said that.
That was actually pretty wild for his side of politics to go that far in these times. His side of politics are fully dominated by MAGA-esque types.
He went further than what you say even, he identified himself with the Neo-libs (Reagan), and the Neo-Cons (Bush), pretty sure he even mentioned Nixon, but i can’t remember now.
Basically he identified himself with everyone from his side of Politics except the current ruling international faction, what i’ll call the Dickwads International Klan, or D.I.K.
Im glad im not the only one who noticed, very dissappointed that the panel ignored it. I thought him identifying himself as an american agent was a big fucking deal and it should have been highlighted and linked to the ass kicking.
First screen malfunction 20 mins in. Drink!
It was the very first reveal of results!
I’d say it’s worthy of a double, but I reckon we need some restraint this early on.
Yeah honestly we couldn’t ask for a more classic start.
“Let’s wait for the pre-poll” has to be on the bingo card next time.
Can replace “too close to call”
Going to have to scull my drink to catch-up.
