On the available information it looks like this
Coalition==91 88
labor==54 57
Katter=1
greens==1
Palmer == 1
Independants==2
The senate looks like a dogs dinner but thankfully not a coalition controlled one .
Abbott has won,
Rudd resigned
A interesting 3 years ahead, but the sun will come up and we will all survive.
Democracy at work and lets be thankful that even though most here may not be happy with the result at least we had a chance to vote in a free and non-violent atmosphere
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THE PUB 
.”..get on with keeping Australia moving in safety.”
You lot are now obsolete as the newly elected Abbott & co have it all under control.
joe6pack
[ let decent law abiding Heavy vehicle drivers get on with keeping Australia moving in safety]
As they bop along on to
Seems to be a popular tune on this site for some reason.
forget leaked the word I should’ve used was fabricated.
The Abbott government, three days in and racking up debt already. Someone had better tell Hadley, Jones et al.
Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk
The Abbott govt will borrow $800 million tomorrow with an additional $800 million on Friday. This is just a passing comment.
Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk
Oh: and the govt borrowed $200 million today in an indexed bond tender
On Rudd he should go,
He doesn’t need the cash, he won’t be pm again, and he is destroying any good will that was there for him.
If Jess wants a career in politics( that seems on the cards), later you are not helping
I have supported him in the past but not now.
Piss of Rudd, your not as loved as you thought, and let them get on rebuilding.
earlyopener
September 10, 2013 at 5:46 pm ~ Edit
.”..get on with keeping Australia moving in safety.”
You lot are now obsolete as the newly elected Abbott & co have it all under control.
Has the teleporter been perfected?
6Pack
It’s the truck-driving nutters that should be sent off.
It absolutely ruins my day when I get stuck behind a furniture truck on the way up the escarpment from Jamberoo!
CTar1
[ May be the wrong type of music on as well. ]
If it was a speed camera wot got ya then I hope it was.
It absolutely ruins my day when I get stuck behind a furniture truck on the way up the escarpment from Jamberoo!
Tough,
Don’t like furniture trucks sit and sleep in the dirt.
earlyopener
Who has befuddled got as his avatar now? Bowen or Kim Carr?
earlyopener
September 10, 2013 at 5:36 pm
foreverjanice
A negative Bill Shorten
LOL! Still hasn’t forgiven him for helping organise the numbers against Kevin in Jun2010. It figures. I sometimes wonder if he is as obsessed as his hero, but then I remembered that the lot of them – Feeney, DTT, MTBW, TP are the same and no amount of empirical evidence will convince them otherwise. Yes, they keep me away too more than the Liberal troll morons.
A natural leader of the Labor Party is Tanya Plibersek….but I wouldn’t wish such a burden on a mother of such young children….sadly, the situation calls for sincerity, good manners and a calm head in a tight situation…things Tanya has in spades.
And she’s TOTALLY social conscious.
But like I said…. now’s unfortunately not the time….as Don McClean sang on “Vincent”…: “…the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”……a good solid lefty is what we need!
If the AEC are neutral and given Indi is so close with the lipsticked supermodel in slight arrears and nothing could be put out of the possibility of the Liberals – my suggestion triple locks on all votes tonight!
6Pack
The Merc has lots of torque (460 or so NM) so it’s fun to drive up the hill. I’ve had a Suberoo WRX driver in front of me give up and pull over half way up.
The car is both an indulgence and a joy.
The furniture trucks should do Macquarrie Pass.
A natural leader of the Labor Party is Tanya Plibersek….but I wouldn’t wish such a burden on a mother of such young children…
Well that should rule Shorten out also. He has a young child.
Don’t like furniture trucks
Joe6p….do you ever suspect “they” have you tracked and just when you are going the clappers and making great time, “they” get a furniture truck to pull out on the highway in front of you….almost like it’s deliberate?
gorgeousdunny1
I only discovered the PB lounge after Rudd 1.0 got the chop. It has been truly jaw dropping for me to find in recent times that people like TP are not Libtard trolls. Sheesh with friends like that who needs enemies ? !!
Well that should rule Shorten out also. He has a young child.
Joe..that’s an old one…true..but the reality being…
Thanks for all the cheerful speeding ticket stories.
HI reckons she hasn’t been pinged for 10 years at least, so we may look up her record to make sure.
Youse’d have been proud of me when I broke the news to her. I stood six feet away, just to make sure (can’t be too safe when HI is on the warpath) and told her almost off-handedly.
she said demurely.
I filled her in, showed her the photos and she calmed down a little, but not before Bob and Cozzie took off out onto the deck to inspect their toenails, or knots in the wood, or something. Bob may have dementia, but he knows a steam train out of control when he sees one.
My own driving record took a bit hit several years ago when I was pinged – after five crime-free years – three times in three weeks. Suddenly I had 9 points and the next one was sudden death, loss of licence (unless I wanted to go on the “Dead Man Walking” probation period of 12 months, and if you violate again, even a bald tyre or a loose side mirror, you get double the punishment, without the option.).
Of course I railed against the Fates. The greedy bastards were out to get me etc. etc. How DARE they put a 100 metre long bit of 70kph on a goddamn freeway anyway, in between 110 kph sections?
Whatever the morality of it was, they’d done it and I got caught.
After a week or so of driving like an old grandfather (with people behind me tooting at me to hurry up… I thought of getting an “I’m on 9 points… Sorry” sticker for the bumper… but that would have been too much humiliation… without the Credlin) I got used to it.
And my attitude changed too. I read up on the stats which showed that for every 5kph reduction in speed, your chance of either injuring someone or being injured reduced by 20% (or some similar dramatic number). I decided to view my points-imposed purgatory as a positive thing. I slowed down well before lights, I always checked my speed, used the cruise control more often, and the GPS on the highways (GPS is FAR more accurate). I short: I became a model motorist.
And I’ve stayed that way.
Mind youse… I’m still a lousy driver, but I’m a slower lousy driver.
And THAT, I think, is what they want drivers who always push the lights, or nudge the speed limit to do: ease up a little, and if everyone does it, then we’ll have safer roads for everyone, including ourselves.
When I was little, we used to have around 1200 people killed per year in NSW. Now it’s well short of 400, with squillions more cars on the roads. I’ve decided to be positive. I’ve decided it’s a good thing that we have cameras (red light and speed) and all the rest of it. We stand an altogether better chance of surviving to die in bed, as opposed to being crushed to death with a steering wheel column piercing our hearts or our liver or our lungs, or all the skin on our faces lacerated, or our eyes gouged out, or just about every bone in our body broken (or all of the above)…screaming our last moments in agony, calling for our Mothers to come help us.
I know which fate I’d prefer.
So, when anyone whinges to me about how unfair things are arranged, road-toll-wize, I always listen to them, have a look at the circumstances and, if their complaints are unwarranted, or self-indulgent, I deliver the lecture above to them.
Go with the flow. Relax, Take in the view. Don’t kill people, and hope other people don’t kill you, because we’re all driving a little safer nowadays.
C1
MY truck
D13C540 HP540 KW397 TORQUE2600 (NM)
460(NM) Couldn,t pull the top off a custard tart> 🙂
Actually Labor leadership markets all quiet on the western front all-day today.
Shorten still odds-on and Albanese into around the $2.15 mark.
I initiated a little Albanese stampede yesterday but I am only guessing as you do with the ALP from recent experience.
Some truck “pron” for joe6pack 1400 HP and 5800 Nm phwooar 🙂 CTar1 these are the trucks are you need to follow up hills.
I like it how we’ve got “Mr. Electronics Genius” Turdball now on about the joys of electronic voting…..since is this dud advisor to the nation?
6Pack
[D13C540 HP540 KW397 TORQUE2600 (NM)]
‘If you want to drive a tank, join the Army’!
460 is very adequate in a 1700kl car that is agile and brakes well. A bit slow of the mark but once it’s moving …
6Pack
The new truck seems to be pleasing you.
“And THAT, I think, is what they want drivers who always push the lights, or nudge the speed limit to do: ease up a little, and if everyone does it, then we’ll have safer roads for everyone, including ourselves.”
Awww!..jesus, BB. what’s with all the soft-soap!!?….you’re starting to sound like Fred Nile on a jesus trip!
C1
It is good. Unfortunately I don’t drive it much these days.
Best truck I have had I think
Electronic voting can be hacked or rigged, as per the USA and The Shrub’s ‘election’. Also it could create an electronic record your vote,
The only electronic voting available should be for people with disabilities that prevents them from using a pencil and paper.
As for all those informal votes caused by incorrect numbering, well, anyone who cannot put half a dozen or so numbers next to some names or a number above a line…
“Awww!..jesus, BB. what’s with all the soft-soap!!?….you’re starting to sound like Fred Nile on a jesus trip!”
And when he’s sledged he just say’s ‘thanks’
kaffee
[Some truck “pron” for joe6pack ]
Silky thing much more agile.
😀
What’s on the back of that truck?
I loved all the whinging from the Libs about how all the people who voted for the Liberal Democrats really meant to vote for the Liberal Nationals. If you can’t even read….
6Pack
[Best truck I have had I think]
My decent M-B experience has taught me that the quality level is vastly different. The vehicles, despite just being machines, can do a lot of things for you.
I’m plumping for Albo. He’s the right man, at the right moment. Respected and feared. Without the trammels of government upon him, I think he’ll be an Exocet missile in human form, but more importantly, is a bridge between the old Gillard and Rudd camps.
When you think of it that way, it’s a no-brainer.
mikehilliard
I do not know. It looks like some sort of reference to the Germanic thang about forests and trees.
BB
I hope your right – but on a shallow level Albanese has a very ordinary physiognomy and a slight speech impediment. And he must dress in navy blue!
ladyseesred
So pleased you made it here, should have warned you about moderation, but your free now, and I’m all ears to hear more about your candidate experience. As I said congrats on a good job well done in such a difficult electorate.
Its a cigar company
Wasn,t Albo part of the Rudd whiteanting group?
Earlyopener,
Messrs Abbott, Rudd, Howard, Keating, Hawke, Fraser, McMahon, and Gorton are all shining examples of very ordinary physiognomy (and hey, Mr Albanese was a cutie when young!).
The last PM whose voice I found endurable was Mr Gorton.
I agree with you about navy blue – charcoal grey is also good, but Mr Albanese should NEVER venture into the brown tones (very few men should).
Twisted cigars, that’s different.
[Wasn,t Albo part of the Rudd whiteanting group?]
I guess we’ll find that out in a forthcoming book from JG.
Has anyone considered that the bushfires in Western Sydney are God’s way of punishing Bogans because they voted for the Coalition?
Will Tony “Western Sydney Is Liberal Heartland” Abbott respond in his usual heroic way?
“No excuses. No surprises” Tone. You’re PM now. Go on… lead.
Bloody Hell! Was Just going to book for the Anne Summers I/V with JG 1st October, and the site’s saying pending tickets are currently with other customers. Sold out already? Anyone have any more info about it?
gorgeousdunny
I looked much earlier today & there were only a few seats left up in the stratosphere at the back. Hopefully it will be televised at some point.
Fiona
Labor needs someone to rise out of the swamp – Albanese if he was a cutie once has aged badly and has a crooked mouth.
I sat once with John Gorton and he explained to me how ridiculous it was that a wild duck could fly from an open season in Victoria into NSW with a closed season and get away with it ( or vice versa). We may have also discussed rail gauge.
Albanese wears grey – a no no no for his complexion and aura!
Time to be gone.
Be friendly.
I haven’t been taking much notice of my bank account for a while. Just get out an odd cash withdrawal & pay for a few groceries etc with the card.
Got out a few dollars this afternoon & took a look at the receipt. Shock & horror to discover that it was around $6,000 less than it should be.
When I got home I jumped on the net & discover that some mob down the road (in receivership) have been trying to clean me out.
I’ve got no idea how they have been able to do it but Suncorp are going to get a blast tomorrow morning.
Reminds me of when we were staying down in Canberra at Ducky’s and Mrs Duck got hit upon. We are bloody vulnerable as every time we use a card, there is the possibility of some cretin getting enough particulars to hook into our hard-earned.
I have been too tired, grumpy, and generally pissed-off to prepare anything other than the most basic of meals for the past few days.
However, tonight – part of the therapy to get back to normal – we are having chicken breasts baked on a bed of thinly-sliced potatoes, shallots, and garlic, seasoned with tarragon. Accompanying vegetables: Dutch carrots and baby asparagus. It smells sensational.
Can we please have Combet back?
The biggest problem Labor now has is that in Q