Appparently Tonight This is happening on the facebook Thingy
I have never used facebook nor do I intend too but Lord Mal seems to think it is a wonderfull idea
Now I know I am not the sharpest Pencil in the box but Who is goung to be logging on /watching this at 6.00pm on a Friday Night? I’m sure most people will feel like this.
But for those that are going to watch may I suggest
But as it’s a Friday night lets not forget the Pubs tradition of being happy
Indulging in your favorite tipple
And possibly listen to some tunes
Enjoy..
PS. If some facebook person watches the debate will they be kind enough to give a report.
Cheers.
THE PUB 
https://delimiter.com.au/2016/06/22/read-now-mike-quigley-launches-devastating-critique-mtm-policy/
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/shortsighted-expensive-and-backward-looking-exnbn-boss-blasts-turnbulls-plan-20160622-gpozid.html
http://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory/australian-electoral-commission-accused-of-not-doing-enough-to-alert-residents-in-seat-of-lingiari-about-vote/news-story/59fa8fded57c6a6cd8dfd3cee54ae615
https://www.buzzfeed.com/robstott/try-before-you-buy-what-the-governments-youth-internships-lo
Here is the link to the Union commissioned ReachTEL polling.
https://www.nswtf.org.au/news/2016/06/22/nsw-marginals-shift-to-parties-backing-Gonski
Unfortunately the links within the page to the individual full poll PDFs are broken. I dropped them a line. Hopefully they’ll fix them tomorrow. The ones they posted in April all work, some sort of glitch in the June PDF URLs. Some junior woodchuck made a formatting error I reckon. Check the page again late morning tomorrow for primaries etc.
Simon Crean should be bloody well ashamed of himself. What the hell is a Labor man doing being involved in the disgustlingly cruel live animal exports?
yeah, i know, The ALP will not rock any boats (bad pun) over live exports, but Simon Crean is out of politics. Couldn’t he find a more honourable job than this one?
Crean is just another Marn,
Oh wow. If all 6 of those NSW seats go to Labor, and we see similar marginal seats fall in Queensland and a big swing in WA; them plus a few seats in NT, SA, Vic and Tasmania could see Labor with a majority government.
At the moment with Queensland I see Capricornia and Petrie as easy regains, around half of the marginal seats of Brisbane, Flynn, Bonner, Herbert, Dawson, Longman, Forde and Leichhardt returning (some may still hold on, but not all of them), and an outside shot at Dickson and Ryan (very unlikely I’ll admit, but, they won’t be impossible gains).
ALP Ad
https://scontent-syd1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13501625_290299284640606_2923518377123500_n.jpg might work
nope
try again
ABC’s Chasers is doing “Look at me!” with not a skerrick of analysis of policies.
Dead anchor for me now. Very sad.
Not sad, really, The Chaser has been pathetic for a long time and should be put down.
I got sick of The Chaser even before they became TV ‘stars’, way back when they just had an online presence and a shoddy newspaper. It was fun, at first, then it degenerated into spiteful crap and I gave up. Then the ABC took them on – after they had already become failures.
I watched their first TV series, for a few episodes, and gave that up too. Even my sons, who were more their target demographic back then, decided it was too lame to bother with.
Their act hasn’t changed at all, not in all the years they have been on the ABC. Same stale old stunts. Only the ABC would keep them on for so long. Other channels would have given them the axe years ago.
And the farmers hate it.
http://www.farmweekly.com.au/news/agriculture/general/politics/alp-animal-welfare-policy-slammed/2752727.aspx
Are you a Scomophobe?
I have not watched the Chaser this time. It is past its use-by-date.
This Lingiari voting thing – what a sneaky way to nobble Warren Snowdon.
What twit thought one day, just one day, was fair?
Someone should go in with a fleet of buses and take everyone to a polling booth in another electorate, so they can all vote absentee.
I honestly don’t think Lingiari is in any danger of being lost. By the sound of it, most of the NT is waiting for August with baseball bats, likely to turf out the CLP government with at least a 15% swing. Even if Lingiari is being cheated by lousy prepolling arrangements, I doubt there will be any swing at all toward the CLP even after it.
nice set of numbers
GhostWhoVotes
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#ReachTEL Poll Seat of Dobell 2 Party Preferred: LIB 47 (-2.8 from 2013) ALP 53 (+2.8) #ausvotes
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#ReachTEL Poll Seat of Eden Monaro 2 Party Preferred: LIB 45 (-7.9 from 2013) ALP 55 (+7.9) #ausvotes
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#ReachTEL Poll Seat of Gilmore 2 Party Preferred: LIB 47 (-6.8 from 2013) ALP 53 (+6.8) #ausvotes
thank you, Zoidlord
Zoidlord
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#ReachTEL Poll Seat of Lindsay 2 Party Preferred: LIB 46 (-7.0 from 2013) ALP 54 (+7.0) #ausvotes
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#ReachTEL Poll Seat of Macquarie 2 Party Preferred: LIB 46 (-8.5 from 2013) ALP 54 (+8.5) #ausvotes
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#ReachTEL Poll Seat of Page 2 Party Preferred: NAT 46 (-7.1 from 2013) ALP 54 (+7.1) #ausvotes
When I saw Simon Crean speak up as head of live export mob, I just could not believe it. With the amount of time him and Marn have spent in parliament they would be on at least $200k, how much money do they need by taking on these jobs as they lower themselves to the grubby level of the Libs.
With that sort of pension why don’t they try some charity work.
Why is it that everyone forgets Howard’s first go after he was failed treasurer in the Frasers govt. He lost to Hawke 1987. I still remember clearly that election.
The Liberals are at war with themselves today.
First Michaelia Cash organises a fundraiser and Lucy Turnbull is upset by the way she is promoted. The Liberal Prty has ti apologise.
Then Corgi Bernardi has a go at Fizza.
Cory Bernardi furious Malcolm Turnbull ‘implied Coalition MPs are homophobic’
Liberal senator attacks prime minister in blog post over comments Turnbull made on Q&A and says they have never discussed homophonbia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/22/cory-bernardi-furious-malcolm-turnbull-implied-coalition-mps-are-homophobic?CMP=share_btn_tw
It’s all such fun, watching them tear themselves apart. If only they had a strong leader to keep them in line ……. ….
I guess with individuals like Crean and Mar’n, it’s easier to understand why they say these things once they’re out of Labor.
Enticed by vested interests, they can easily become commentators that please the right wing of Australian business/industry by becoming their spokesmen. After all, every commentator that is pro-LNP will be honored to have them on as their guests to both parrot their talking points AND be displayed as a monument to the fact that they have bipartisan credentials (as in to say “Oh we aren’t propagandists for the Liberal party, we regularly interview Labor members such as Martin Ferguson, Mark Latham, Michael Costa and Simon Crean to prove that we’re politically neutral”)
And in return, these Labor rats (or near to it) get at least some relevance after their failed careers.
As a tribute to Scomo’s lament I post this song from ‘Hair’.
Blimey eh! Qld has done it again. It keeps winning as an underdog against a state with far better Rugby League credentials and the RL power brokers in NSW can’t work out how Qld continues to do it.
It’s all to do with heart & determination. Something that I think Labor has over the rabble most times and against formidable odds.
Let’s hope that this is one of those times.
Just noticed that Murdoch has bought out APN. This is a further tradegy for democracy in Australia. ie. In Qld, it means that he not only has control of our only capital city newspaper, but now has control of virtually every regional paper including most of the free ones.
I don’t think even the Nazis had such media control leading up to WW2. Murdoch is a power mad octogenarian whose only interest is in furthering an empire.
Remind you of someone with a funny mustache?
I am dead sure our interests, ( the interests of ordinary citizens o0f this country) are well served with arrangements such as this.
If the conservative get hold of government after July 2, then Dog help us all.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. An early edition today – I was having trouble sleeping.
Massola writes off Shorten’s chance of a victory.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-labor-to-fall-short-of-victory-as-parties-go-negative-on-medicare-and-boats-20160622-gpp6xs.html
Now Abbott says he’s “keen to serve”. Struggling with his mortgage payments?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/im-keen-to-serve-tony-abbott-urges-supporters-not-to-punish-malcolm-turnbull-for-leadership-spill-20160622-gppovc.html
No. we don’t need a Royal Commission into banking do we?
http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/cba-staff-pressured-to-push-products-says-finance-sector-union-20160622-gpp9sk.html
Mark Kenny writes about the SSM questions Turnbull must now answer.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016-opinion/election-2016-the-samesex-marriage-question-malcolm-turnbull-must-now-answer-20160622-gpphuj.html
Michael Gordon says it’s lies at 20 paces because both sides think it’s perilously close.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016-opinion/election-2016-lies-at-20-paces-as-marathon-campaign-approaches-rock-bottom-20160622-gppe1o.html
Will Mike Quigley’s detailed excoriation of the Coalition’s mess of the NBN provide the basis for the discussion we need to have? It certainly does require dispassionate examination.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/shortsighted-expensive-and-backward-looking-exnbn-boss-blasts-turnbulls-plan-20160622-gpozid.html
This is a piece that Quigley has written for The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/the-need-for-speed-theres-still-time-to-fix-australias-nbn-61288
Why voters are angry about Australia’s internet.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2016/06/22/australia-internet-cost/
More horrible revelations about the ADF at yesterday’s Royal Commission hearing.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/adf-abuse-victim-told-injuries-sustained-through-rape-just-anxiety-20160622-gppm7f.html
There are still fears that 7-Eleven workers will not get their compensation.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/workplace-relations/fears-7eleven-workers-could-be-left-in-the-cold-if-franchises-declare-bankruptcy-to-avoid-fines-and-repayments-20160622-gpp3tk.html
Section 2 . . .
Barnaby Joyce goes out of his tree at the NPC. Again!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-thats-the-end-of-australia-barnaby-joyce-lashes-independents-20160622-gpp6c4.html
Baird is now attempting to significantly change the terms of employment for state public servants.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/government-regulation-will-terminate-redundancy-entitlements-of-public-servants-20160621-gpoc0z.html
Got problems with Medibank Private? Then don’t bother going to the Private Insurance Ombudsman.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/private-health-insurance-ombudsman-turned-aggrieved-customers-back-to-medibank-20160622-gpovtk.html
Peter Martin looks at who is Medicare’s best friend and concludes that it is certainly not the Coalition.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/election-2016-whos-keenest-on-medicare-examine-bulkbilling-20160621-gpoqze.html
This international law academic sings the government’s failures on human rights issues.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/human-rights-failures-say-a-lot-about-our-government-20160622-gpozn6.html
Yet more trouble for Woolworths’ superb management team.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace-relations/woolworths-cleaning-contractors-face-underpayment-case-20160622-gpp9sf.html
Meanwhile Coles is testing “dark stores” that have no customers – just online warehousing and distibution.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/retail/dark-stores-coles-trials-shops-with-no-customers-20160622-gpowau.html
The boss of Target says he really means business. It will interesting to watch as things unfold over the next 12 months.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/hm-zara-uniqlo-will-regret-coming-down-under-warns-target-boss-20160622-gppb9e.html
Michelle Grattan on Labor now moving on to the privatisation of the vaccination register.
https://theconversation.com/labor-moves-its-scare-campaign-onto-vaccination-register-61467
This study confirms the dramatic effect that Howard’s gun laws have had on mass shootings in Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/australias-gun-laws-stopped-mass-shootings-and-reduced-homicides-study-finds
Section 3 . . .
Gareth Hutchens says that Morrison is losing the negative gearing modelling war.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/22/scott-morrison-is-losing-his-negative-gearing-modelling-war
Moodys has examined Trumponomics and reaches a scary conclusion. It’s scary!
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/trumponomics-is-scarier-when-you-actually-study-it-moodys-shows-20160621-gpot9u.html
Morrison is so out of touch with LGBTQI issues.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/scott-morrison-out-of-touch-with-lgbtqi-issues-20160622-gppa34.html
Eight times Morrison heroically overcame bigotry.
https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/eight-time-scott-morrison-heroically-overcame-bigotry/
“View from the Street” does a good lob on Morrison.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/view-from-the-street-the-passion-of-the-treasurer-20160622-gppbdz.html
The Guardian tracked the response to Morrison’s comments.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/22/campaign-catchup-scomo-suffers-for-his-views
Cuts to legal services will cause deep community hurt. This is a real sleeper issue.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/cuts-to-legal-services-will-hurt-the-social-fabric-20160622-gpp26d.html
The SMH editorial says that if Brexit wins then it will represent a victory for hatred.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/hate-wins-if-brexit-prevails-20160622-gpownj.html
This report says that far right wing loners kill more than Islamic extremists.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/rightwing-lone-wolves-islamist-extremists-report-thinktank-rusi
If this is only half true it represents a terrible customer relations handling by Ford.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/ford-australia-faces-class-action-seeking-refunds-on-70000-allegedly-dodgy-cars/news-story/9c13807fa3d6ca104acfb79882a6c5c5
Section 4 . . . Cartoon Corner
Alan Moir on Turnbull’s current position.
David Pope gets to the core of the Coalition’s ideas about Medicare.
David Rowe and some political group therapy.
BK
So it will be a poppy nap for you today. It’s horrible when you wake up so early and just can’t go back to sleep.
Not really. After doing all the morning animal chores it’s off to Woodside for a rather important meeting and then back home to help my daughter and her family move out into their new house. Also I’ll try to squeeze in a trip to the flatlands to see my mother who has been in hospital for a week.
With a bit of luck I’ll be able to stay awake for the Crows’ game tonight!
Oh the pleasures of retirement!
Those Reachtel margin seats figures –
Funny, isn’t it. Fizza has campaigned heavily in all those seats, ‘supporting’ the Liberal candidates. Could his presence be a factor in the falling numbers? Nah! Couldn’t be. Fizza is so charming, so faaaaabulous, so silky, so prime ministerial, so ……. well ……. maybe the voters aren’t seeing the things the MSM still tell us will make him a winner.
It’s very possible Fizza is now so unpopular that the mere sight of him is enough to swing votes to the other team.
In the last week of the campaign, will we see Liberal candidates begging Fizza to stay away? Even better, will they be asking for Tony instead?
Peter Dutton says Tony Abbott wants all Australians to vote for Malcolm Turnbull. That’s going to be a bit difficult, how will we all fit into Wentworth?
What Peter means is this –
Tony and Peter want all Australians to vote for their government, because if they don’t Tony and Peter won’t get those lovely ministerial salary packages they are hoping for. Also, Tony and Peter have such wonderful plans to knife Turnbull and install Tony as PM, maybe even with Peter as his loyal deputy.
BK – All that … and in the rain.
Sheer desperation, grabbing any ‘poor me’ exciuse they can dream up. First it was Scrott claiming he was abused because of his religious beliefs, now Dutton is claiming he has been harassed by bikes and it’s all a Labor plot.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/jun/23/australian-election-2016-abbott-tells-bolt-hes-content-where-he-is-politics-live
What will it be tomorrow? Michaelia Cash assaulted by a flock of union emus? Chrissie Pyne savaged by a Labor-leaning bottle of plonk?
Someone really needs to check on the medications these idiots are using. It obviously isn’t keeping them passably sane any more.
Really desperate – this is the Liberal campaign in Leichhardt. Warren Entsch, what a grub!
Entsch has usually been seen as a moderate, making it more unusual. It suggests that Leichhardt is definitely in play if they stoop to that. I hadn’t included it in seats I saw as possibles. Go Sharryn!
It’s back to “Ditch the Witch.”
So it looks like Mark Kenny’s job of talking down Labor’s chances has now been outsourced to James Massola, who has written an article with pretty much the same message Kenny was spruiking before his change of heart last week.
It’s almost standard for a political team to talk down its chances of victory. Tight race, every vote counts, that sort of thing. And I guess its also standard for a journalist to quote unnamed “strategists, officials, MPs and campaign workers” in order to prosecute his case. Hard to take any of it seriously though, with the polls the way they are.
It’s all part of this bizarro world reportage, in a situation where it’s clear the incumbents are panicking and improvising and the contenders are confident and resolutely on-message. It’s over, no wait, it’s going to be a hung parliament, no wait, the ALP are close to victory, no wait, it is all over really, no wait, Turnbull’s rallying, no wait, there’s an ALP scare campaign and it’s working we have to stop it, no wait, it’s all over again, no wait, the people smugglers have heard Labor’s going to win and they’re sending the boats again, no wait, hung parliament or Labor victory, no wait, just kidding, it’s all over.
Repeat after me, Massola: I Don’t Know The Outcome, It’s Too Close To Call.
Probably also worth mentioning that after saying the ALP have 10 likely gains of the 21 they need, he goes on, almost as an afterthought, to name another 15 seats that are “in play”. And those ones don’t even take into account Xenophon, Windsor or Oakeshott. And he just sort of goes “yeah nah” about them. If they’re in play, I doubt he’s coming across too many ALP figures who are pessimistic regarding their chances.
So, like Kenny before him, he’s outlined a worse-case scenario for the ALP and pronounced it the likely outcome.
Massola is just another Liberal shill.
Waffles said “It’s in the bag”. Pity about all the holes in that bag.
Massola’s article is rubbish. It’s obvious that he’s getting excited about the best case scenario (for the Libs) of Labor only winning 8-10 seats.
In reality, another 15 seats are in the “uncertain” column. I’m not expecting all of them to fall (unless Labor gets over 52% of the 2pp vote), but if Labor wins half of them, that removes Turnbull’s majority. And several of those seats “Unlikely to fall” include Lindsay, Page and Macquarie, with even Gilmore reporting a decent Labor lead, according to the latest seat level Reachtel polls.
So best case scenario for Labor would be +25 seats on the night. Worst case, 8 seats (which according to the ABC calculator, only 8 seats will fall if the coalition gets better than a 50-50 result).
We had a meet the candidates forum here last night. I watched some of it on Facebook, but the buffering of the live feed was too bad, so I gave up. I’ll watch it all later today. The place was packed, standing room only, very unusual here where the norm is three old blokes and a dog turning up. All the candidates turned up – except one. The Labor bloke didn’t make it, his excuse was work commitments stopped him getting there for the 5.30 start. A very weak effort, I think. The other candidates, all from Coffs except for Rob Oakeshott, had no problem getting here by the start time. Even Pruneface managed to be there. The Greens candidate left her hospital bed, just a few hours after surgery, and travelled down from Coffs Harbour to be there. Top marks for dedication to the lady!
I know Labor doesn’t have a hope here, but neither do some of the other candidates, and they all managed to get here, give their speeches and answer questions, even the Citizens Electoral Council candidate, who will be lucky to get a dozen votes. I suppose Labor candidates around here get no support from headquarters and just think they are there simply so Labor can have a candidate running, so they really can’t be bothered making an effort, but a bit of enthusiasm would be nice.
Of course, Labor should be putting an effort into even safe seats. There are important Senate votes to be won after all.
The alternative is that he may be “running dead” so that Oakeshott can get more votes and win the seat. But that’s a pretty poor thing for a candidate to do.
He should have shown, even if he is running dead. Every vote will be needed to give Oakeshott a chance, and Labor also needs to maximise its Senate vote, which is not going to look at all pretty in some states.
Someone kept count. I don’t know.
“OK So the leader’s daily press conference question count.
Turnbull Question count3
Turnbull’s Answer count 0
Shorten Question count18
Shorten Answer count18”
All Libs are bastards
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/jun/23/australian-election-2016-abbott-tells-bolt-hes-content-where-he-is-politics-live?page=with:block-576b5a27e4b030d83eb49a26#block-576b5a27e4b030d83eb49a26
Also pointed out by The Guardian – Anne Aly is an expert on deradicalisation, she has even been invited to the White House by Obama to talk about it. Michael Keenan knows nothing, and has not been invited to the White House. She is so effective at her work that she has been placed on an Islamic kill list.
Even worse, not only is Keenan a grade A grub, he is also a coward. He made allegations about Ms Aly, but refused to talk to her on Perth radio today, saying he could not possibly talk to a Labor candidate. Probably wouldn’t do it because he knew she would make him look like the blithering idiot he really is.
Belgian passion:
The ALP candidate in Higgins is a rolled gold Queensland fool
The sight of him at pre-poll is very off putting and when he opens his mouth – – –
Everything has to be viewed from the ‘Turnbull is gunna win’ angle, absolutely everything.
Fairfax does a piece on Mike Kelly and writes it up as ‘Eden-Monaro is going to lose its bellwether status’, because – you guessed it – Fizza is gunna win.
FFS! There doesn’t seem to be a mention of those Reachtel results anywhere in Fairfax.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-end-of-a-bellwether-former-soldier-mike-kelly-ahead-in-edenmonaro-20160622-gppai3.html#ixzz4CNVV1jxw
Lindsay is also a bellwether seat, going to whatever party forms government since it was formed in 1984. It is also looking like a strong Labor win now. Fairfax aren’t mentioning that, either.
This bit of the article:
Really? I haven’t checked lately, but last I hear punters were strongly backing a Turnbull victory. It was just about the last thing journalists were hanging their hopes on. If those odds have come in, you can call if for Shorten now. But I doubt they have.
At any rate, we can’t be far away from an article along the lines of, “everything is pointing toward a Shorten victory, which is unusual because Turnbull is going to win”.
Or – if the response to the debates is anything to go by – a post-election assessment of, “Shorten won the election, but only because the needs of the electorate suited what Labor was offering.”
“Last I heard”, that is. I don’t know why, but I refuse to spell-check every single time.
“Last I hear” still makes sense. Funny thing the language. I didn’t notice till you corrected.
Last nights branch meeting was just so positive. The reports from prepoll and other events that Fiona is attending were brilliant, and the support, wow! The visits of ministers and others of influence has been incredible, as with the support of head office [can’t believe I just said that!] We have no problems with finding volunteers. I love referring to Fiona and her daughter as the Gilmore girls, always gets a mums giggle from her.
I have been at Higgins and Melbourne Ports pre-poll today
Higgins is crawling with Libs and Greens and all teh candidates were there
Melbourne Ports had Micheal Danby and the Lib candidate. The Greens were disorganised. Danby was oozing confidence and politeness
I never do, but then I can edit my own posts.
“Let them eat cake.”
My sister rang me today to tell me that The Usual Suspects – Uhlmann, Sales, Cassidy, Crabbe(!) etc. – were set to man the ABC TV’s Election Desk on the night of July 2. She was outraged.
I had to calm her down.
I observed that nothing any of them could say or do on that night could, would or should in any way affect the outcome.
Election night is like being on your death bed, I think (if you are reading this post, I am not dead yet). You’re all alone, just you, yourself and your conscience, free at last to be honest and frank about what’s been going on in your life.
With regards to politics, it’s the one night of the triennial that Liberals, Nats, Greens and Labor are at their most forthright. They fess up more or less as to why they lost (if they are the losers) and don’t make too many bragging claims if they’re winners. Bragging is for the after parties, and even then you don’t get too much of that.
If it’s an upset result (which I hope and believe it will be) this applies also to political commentators, who will surely see their coming gotterdammerung ever more clearly, as they are proved conclusively wrong, yet again.
I told my sister I will relish seeing the looks on the faces of the ABC insiders as their wet dreams of an Abbott Ascendancy, then – with nary a pause for reflection – a Turnbull Magnificence are dashed.
I am actually looking forward to July 2, no matter which way it goes. If Labor wins I will enjoy seeing the ABC Liberal clones chow down on raw crow. If it’s close, then I will love to see them explaining why, six months ago, it all seemed so easy, and then for them to speculate as to what Abbott is up to.
If it’s a conclusive loss for Labor, then… “Tomorrow is another day”.