Palmer may get a Tasmanian senator as well...

How are they predicting Hanson to score a senate seat over Palmer United in NSW? Pretty sure you only need 6% primary to get a seat?

I am not surprised. Arabs have proved well that buying votes is an affective means of winning elections.

Liberals victory speech

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I do wonder what type of people voted for Palmer...

Labor's Bill Shorten believes Kevin Rudd has helped save Labor seats Labor loses government.

Source AAP

Labor king maker Bill Shorten says Labor's losses could have been worse.

"I just want to put on the record that Kevin Rudd did a very good job so far helping Labor candidates being returned," Mr Shorten told the Seven Network.

Mr Shorten has suffered a swing against him, but is holding on to his Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong.

He avoided questions on whether he'd be the next Labor leader.

"This is a night of reflection, the Australian electorate certainly indicated that some are very disappointed in Labor and others renewed their confidence in us," he said.

"Tonight is not the night for that sort of speculation.

"It's a difficult evening but I fear it could have been worse."

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/07/shorten-says-rudd-saved-labor-seats?

Labor really did way better than expected.

smashed

Australia's new government
All change down-under
Sep 7th 2013, 11:02 by R.M. | SYDNEY


WITHIN 90 minutes of polling booths closing at 6pm on September 7th, it was clear that Australia would have a new government. Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal-National coalition, will take over as prime minister, ending six years of government by the centre-left Labor Party. With 55% of the votes counted, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation projected that the coalition will win 88 seats to Labor’s 58 in the 150-seat House of Representatives. Adam Bandt, the one Green parliamentarian in the old parliament, seemed set to hold his constituency in Melbourne. Small parties are likely to mop up the remaining seats.

The result appears to be a crushing blow for Labor and Kevin Rudd, the party’s leader and prime minister. Labor suffered swings against it in the states of New South Wales and Queensland, where it needed to win seats to have any hope of clinging to government. It entered the election with 71 seats after ruling as a minority government for the past three years.

As Australians turned out to vote, protesters heckled both leaders over their hardline policies against boat-borne asylum-seekers: Mr Abbott as he visited a polling booth in southern Sydney, and Mr Rudd as he cast his vote in his constituency in Brisbane.

Mr Abbott, leader of the conservative Liberal Party, the senior coalition partner, will head a government that will take Australia to the right. He is a social conservative in the mould of John Howard, the last Liberal prime minister, whom Labor unseated in 2007 after 11 years of government. Mr Abbott opposes gay marriage (Mr Rudd supported it) and wants Australia to keep the British monarch as its head of state (Labor favours a republic). He promises to continue the tough stand against asylum-seekers that Mr Howard took 12 years ago.

Mr Abbott has given less away about how his government will manage the economy. He refused to release his policy costings until 48 hours before the five-week campaign ended. They included a pledge to cut spending on foreign aid by A$4.5 billion ($4 billion) over four years. The money will go instead to infrastructure projects in Australia, mainly roads in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the three biggest cities. As well as “stopping the boats”, one of Mr Abbott’s most heavily-worked campaign slogans was to present himself as “an infrastructure prime minister who puts bulldozers on the ground and cranes into our skies”.

Neither Mr Abbott nor Mr Rudd managed to offer inspiring visions of Australia’s future in their campaigns. Three debates between the two leaders, in two of which they fielded questions from ordinary voters instead of journalists, did little to enhance their profiles. In some respects Mr Rudd had more to prove, even though Mr Abbott was the untested leader. If the election result was an endorsement of Mr Abbott’s new team, it was just as much a verdict on Labor’s internal disorder. Mr Abbott’s pugnacious parliamentary performances (he once called himself a “junkyard dog”) and unpopularity with women voters had earlier marked him out as perhaps the Liberal party’s least-likely future leader. Yet he managed to run a remarkably disciplined and gaffe-free campaign.

Mr Rudd, by contrast, struggled to win voters’ confidence, even though the Labor government had chalked up notable achievements. It steered the economy through the global financial crisis, putting Australia now into its 22nd year of uninterrupted growth. It introduced several worthy reforms: a fibre-optic broadband network, an insurance scheme for disabled people, schools reforms and a price on carbon emissions. In the end, though, much of this was overshadowed by bitter leadership rivalries between Mr Rudd and Julia Gillard, his former deputy. Having led Labor to power in 2007 Mr Rudd eventually lost his parliamentary colleagues’ confidence. They replaced him with Ms Gillard as party leader and prime minister in 2010. Then in June, facing dire opinion polls under Ms Gillard, they decided to reinstall Mr Rudd.

In his first spell as leader, Mr Rudd’s campaigning skills had been one of Labor’s strongest assets. This time, his campaign struggled to take off. In its last days, as electoral devastation looked likely, Mr Rudd tried to contrast Labor’s vision for “future needs” with Mr Abbott’s “rear-vision mirror view of politics”. And he appealed to voters to be concerned about the impact of Mr Abbott’s spending cuts, urging them: “If you still have doubts, don’t vote for him.” But voters’ doubts by then had settled just as much on Mr Rudd. He had once enjoyed consistent leads over Mr Abbott as preferred prime minister; the final opinion polls showed both men neck-and-neck.

Mr Abbott’s big test will be to adapt his combative style to the serious business of government. He has already ditched an earlier boast that he would return the budget to surplus in his first term. Up to now, he has pursued populist tactics, similar to those of Mr Howard. Mr Abbott promises as his first act of government to abolish the carbon tax that Labor introduced when Ms Gillard was prime minister. But this and other pledges may well face challenges in the Senate, whose political complexion will take longer to emerge from the vote counting. Greens and other small parties could hold the balance of power. Mr Abbott told the Australian Financial Review on election eve that there would be a “qualitative difference to the way things happen in Canberra”. What that difference is remains to be seen.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/09/australias-new-government?

I sincerely hope that the Victorian distribution stays as is, ASP with a senate voice :lol:

:lol: You have obviously never witnessed a land slide election.

That's true. There's a lot of talk about the infighting but IMO the other thing they need to do is go back to the principles of the party.
There were a few policies like asylum seekers that they went way too far to the conservative side. Time to be a proper opposition party to keep the Libs the caretaker governments they tend to be.

Yep, always find it funny when people call this sort of result a landslide etc. Look at QLD - they have 7 Labor MPs to 74 LNP MPs, that was a landslide.

Would be suicide to get rid of him. He is a very good floor performer.

Anyways time to have a rest before watching Brazil smash us all over the park (y)

Labour have a swing against them in the house. No surprise the polls predicted that. What is surprising is that it looks like their is a swing toward labour in the senate

Him and probably 2 senators, that is a fair amount of influence.

You went full retard, Fairfax. You never go full retard.

ABBOTT HAS BEEN FUCKING PRIME MINISTER FOR FUCKING FIVE FUCKING MINUTES AND HAS FUCKING DONE FUCKING NOTHING. USELESS KNUT ETC JOBS RABBLE DICKWEEDS

Rudd doesn't sound like he's going anywhere.

Christopher Pyne will now most likely be in charge of overseeing the education of this countries children. Stop for a moment and let that sink in.

Tony Abbott right now

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Voted above the line for Palmer United Party because #YOLO

Rudd not re running, good decision.

Party Totals
67.0% Counted. Updated 10:14pm
SummaryAll Parties
Primary votes   Swing
Labor ALP   3,168,849   34.2
-4.6
Liberal LIB   2,871,182   31.0
+1.4
Liberal National LNP   840,834   9.1
-0.3
National NAT   410,537   4.4
+0.7
Country Liberal CLP   30,624   0.3
0.0
Green GRN   792,951   8.6
-3.0
Katter's Australia KAP   93,183   1.0
+0.7
Palmer United PUP   527,305   5.7
+5.7
Family First FFP   127,878   1.4
-0.8
Others OTH   403,048   4.3
+0.3


http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/results/party-totals/

Queensland - The state that brought you Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer, now presents. Glenn fucking Lazarus as a fucking senator.

Anyone care to explain the senate results to me ie what the mean etc. There isn't a lot of online information and I'm out of the country

It looks like on abcs site that labour won eleven seats and kept eleven, libs are keeping sixteen and won one extra. That would naively appear to be a swing toward labour in the senate which would be bizarre so perhaps I'm not interpreting it correctly

Holy shit in Victoria

Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party 1 senate seat

1 Family first in SA and 1 Palmer united in QLD, 1 Palmer in TAS too.

Edited by iridium1010: 7/9/2013 10:51:22 PM

:lol: The Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party has a senate seat in Victoria at the moment

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 7/9/2013 10:52:38 PM

Or dear god :lol: also I hope the people are happy . You got your wish .but if he ends up destroying the country up then bad luck . But knowing people they will accuse labour and say the libs had money