It’s chilly spring weather in Melbourne and in a few hours I’ll be off to vote at a distant booth as far away from the Young LibThugs as I can get without leaving the electorate. I’m also going alone: OH had better be very careful when anywhere near me for the next little while.
(Credit: The Australian Labor Party)
All pretty good reasons, in my book.
The Coalition, by contrast, has
not to mention a seriously scary internet “filter” that’s been dropped – for the moment …
The Coalition also has
(and those are just the stars) – a bunch that exceeds in utter, thuggish mendacity and sheer, vicious nastiness anything I have seen in Federal Parliament in over fifty years of being a political junkie.
And, of course, standing behind them, pulling the strings, are
– as unholy a trinity as I have ever seen.
By contrast, the ALP has
decent people concerned about the well-being of all Australians, about equality, and about building for the future.
I will be voting Labor today. I hope sufficient of my fellow-Australians wake up before it’s too late and realise the slaughter-knives are nearly at their throats.
(Credit: The Weekly Times)
THE PUB 
A lot more of the NSW senate results are in, and the huge result for the Liberal Democrats are still in, and it looks like they’ll get a seat. According to the ABC calculator, on these results, the seats will go as follows:
LNP – 3
ALP – 2
LDP – 1
That blasted out of nowhere. And it’s over 10% of the vote counted now.
Sandy…the media players will be crawling around on their hands and knees like the human pig in the film “Deliverance”…just waiting to be “fitted up”!
kirsdarke
I wouldn’t put too much stock in early senate results it now says 3 ALP 1 green and Pauline Hanson being elected.
Two things I won’t be doing tonight. Watching Rudd concede defeat and Abbott claiming victory.
Every pub needs someone tough behind the bar, the Pub excels in this.
So, where are we at, no concession speech yet?
Well, derr! NOW he works it out.
Madonna King @madonnamking 2m
Simon Crean says Labor has to now move on from Kevin Rudd #auspol #channel9
Scorpio, I would sooner castrate myself than watch Abbott claim the win.
@Gippsland Laborite
I got that result by plugging the AEC results into the ABC calculator. While it will probably change, the last two NSW seats look like they will be a strong contest between the Greens, Liberals and 2 parties that came out of nowhere – One Nation and the LDP.
jaycee
[Sandy…the media players will be crawling around on their hands and knees like the human pig]
They are actually more like “The Human Centipede”. Rupes and Gina playing the part of the German doctor.
[The Human Centipede is a 2010 Dutch horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a “human centipede,”]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_(First_Sequence)
scorps – me either. Abbott’s victory speech will be gagaville.
The Liberal Democrats did well with the donkey vote. No 1 on a metre-long paper you couldn’t fit into the booth and had to read with a magnifying glass was a very lucky draw.
No speeches for me either. I couldn’t stand watching Rudd or Abbott.
Kaffee….: ” a 2010 Dutch horror film …”
I trust it doesn’t have subtitles…I HOPE it doesnt!
Rudd on…What’s he smiling about..the little prick!
He just loves the attention!….media queen!
jaycee
Have not seen the film or its sequels (and never will). But the mouth to anus chain seems a pretty apt analogy for the press pack.
Mike,
If moi can strike fear into a class of Year 6 boys at a highly-privileged independent school, and into a class of 3rd year students at a highly-privileged university, youse here ain’t got a fighting chance!
Besides, there’s always the ultimate sanction of closing the thread until y’all beHAVE – sorry, can’t resist it, just sooooo cringe-making …
Further good senate news is that the Big Z in the ACT has less than a quota. It’s very close with 0.95, but Sheikh can take his place if preferences come into play.
Sadly Labor’s fallen behind 1 quota in NT too. This also opens the opportunity up for the First Nations party to launch an equally extraordinary upset.
GL
Are you sure Melham is in the Gillard camp? I thought he was in that bag-packing stunt with notorious Rudd lackey, Griffin.
On the other hand I don’t think Deb O’Neill is a Rudd supporter. On that issue, Tanya refused to be drawn in the link I posted. But I think she might have made a veiled reference when she said Beazley probably would have won in 2007.
No bullshit…he sounds like hes doing a Liberal Party love-in….pichkin dim….piss off!…….where are the tears now…like the ones you shed for yourself…What!….none for the party?…none for the nation?…you bullshit artist!
Kaffee…gruesome..but exact!
fiona – yehbaby!
GD
I remember seeing an article where he said he backed Gillard.
Paddy,
You sound almost as lucky in your MP as I am in mine.
Also, if I were Miss Bishop Jr., I wouldn’t completely count on FA as my portfolio. Again, my local MP has an eye on it, I suspect.
Wonked – trying to listen to Kevin’s speech, but had this in the background:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziK9yqgV5c
i am here keeping stuhm. not the time nor place to throw a bowl of my own urine at the TV.
Has Kev conceded?
For christ’s sake bugger off you little shit!…..I can’t take too much more of this ; “You’re a wonderful audience…I loves yers all sooo much!”….just get lost!
Can’t take any more of this – I’m off to bed.
I hope not – I’m still hanging out for a Labor minority government,
What are we gonna go through thanking all the rellies as well?…..christ he’s lapping it up while hes got the cameras on him…..is he gonna finish by calling the bingo numbers?
This is just bizarre, it’s as if it hasn’t really sunk in yet.
Rudd’s speech I mean
yes. hes conceded. i wish he would concede it is all his fault.
Hey what’s wrong guys? Cool down, this is the start of real reform for us don’t panic.
With such a long-winded conceding, he’s gonna end up another three years in govt’ by default!
Deb O’Neill switched sides and supported Rudd.
Many years ago a few people whom I respect suggested that I should consider a career in politics. My immediate response to them was that I was not prepared to prostitute myself to the demands of the party system.
Now, H. L. Mencken is someone whose words have been more or less familiar to me over the years, and tonight I have had the need to explore his aphorisms. Consider my delight, then, on discovering this:
Next question: who is it who requires such compromises and inflicts so many humiliations?
The wonder is that so many good, well-intentioned, and intelligent people submit themselves to this process.
More to follow.
Rudd’s quitting the leadership
He won’t contest. Thank fuck for that.
He’s just words tumbling out of an insincere mouth…there’s no depth…..YES!…he’s packing it in…THANK GOD, THANK GOD….THANK THE LORD LIVING F#CKING GOD!
NOW!….NOW I’ll hit the bottle to celebrate!
KR’s concession speech
barstard.
The labor party will only recover once Rudd leaves the Parliament.
Backbench my arse. Destabilizing is in his genes.
He must resign from Parliament.
He still thinks we give a fuck about him!
We’ve heard this from Rudd before. He’ll just toddle off home and start working on The Resurrection, Part II.
BTW,
Prepolls still to come into the mix.
Seats still in play.
Labor could lose more in the next few hours and days.
gone off to find another organisation to screw over, i should think. so many jobless and hurt because of this askeholes ego.
good riddance to bad rubbish
Good.
With the Senate race, after plugging the figures into the ABC calculator, it looks like Palmer will pick up the 6th seat in Queensland, with the LNP having 3 and Labor having 2. Fairly easy, since Palmer has 11.7% so far.