"Australia! Australia! Australia! We love you, Amen!"
Posted on 05/19/2019 6:30:39 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The ABC election computer is predicting the Coalition has secured majority government with at least 77 seats, as the Liberals appear set to secure Bass, Chisholm, Boothby and Wentworth.
Labor held Bass and Chisholm, while Wentworth was in the hands of independent Kerryn Phelps prior to the election.
"As far as I'm concerned on the numbers to come Bass will be the 76th seat. Postals and absent votes favour the Coalition in Bass and they're already ahead," ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green said.
"At some time today Bass will tick over to become the 76th seat, delivering the Government majority."
Green said he expected Chisholm would become the 77th seat, with Boothby and Wentworth already in the Liberal count.
"The Coalition have a certain 75," Green said.
"Bass will be 76 and Chisholm looks likely to be 77 and 78 is a possibility with Macquarie, but that is in doubt."
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
This is a big deal - what we knew on Saturday night was that the conservative government would be returned, but it might have been as a minority government having to rely on the support of minor party and independent members. That was much better than the Labor government all the polls had been predicting, so was cause for celebration by itself.
But majority government - even by one seat - makes things so much easier.
Hopefully the Coalition doesn’t harbor creatures like Mitt Romney or Juan McLame...
It’s called the Trump Effect
Should the Senate swing be roughly the same?
Thanks naturalman1975.
My friend and business partner down under says: Sanity has prevailed.
WENTWORTH! I’M OVER THE MOON!
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! ....... Oi!, Oi!, Oi!
It takes weeks - literally - to get final results for the Senate due to the number of candidates (there were 82 in my state) and our complicated preferential voting system.
But we do have early indications, and it’s looking like the conservative coalition will have two more Senators than before, and when you add in other minor conservative parties - it won’t be a conservative majority, but it is likely to be a better Senate than we have now from that perspective.
We have our share of people like that - but the most prominent of them decided not to run this time, rats deserting what they thought was a sinking ship. So this should be less of a problem - touch wood.
I’ll repeat what I wrote on the other thread: Maybe the new government can send Ambassador Downer over here to answer some questions.
Now is the time to get a nice trade deal with Japan, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, and India, like President Trump will be focusing on shortly. Everyone should be putting pressure on China, at minimum for mutually fair intellectual property rules.
And I will repeat the same answer I gave there.
It’s the same government.
And Alexander Downer was Australia’s longest serving Foreign Minister, John Howard’s Foreign Minister, and a former leader of the party that is now in government.
This conspiracy theory about him that is circulating in the United States is frankly, utterly ridiculous.
I’m happy that sane people voted Liberal. Funny thing to say, but the Conservatives won...
Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie... Oi Oi Oi!
"Australia! Australia! Australia! We love you, Amen!"
This, exactly. God save Australia! The voters have done their part!
They needed at least 76.
Sorry, but he was a Clinton foundation donor and was part of the effort with Mufsud and Halper to set up Papadopoulos.
77 out of how many?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.