Grenville wrote:Magellan wrote:Harder to pick than a broken nose. However, I have a feeling it'll go down to the wire. I favour something like Grenville's prediction, except less independents and more coalition seats, but not enough for them to retain government.
I badly misjudged our state election so I may well be wrong again. I'm banking on enough independents with a decent profile and platform benefiting from the voter dissatisfaction factor. Julia Banks, Zali Steggall, Rob Oakeshott, Kevin Mack for instance may do some damage.
I’m with you other than Daley screwed up the last week which we probably didn’t factor in enough. The opposite happened here with Hawke doing them a favour.
Julia Banks - now there’s the epitome of narcissism. I hope she loses by a street.
Ziggy Stardust got my vote
Abbott should have gone when he got dumped as PM.
I reckon it will be ‘93 again. There won’t be a decision tonight, but if there is, there will only be 5 seats difference
Not a good move by Shorten to alienate the soon to be / semi / retirement sector. Apparently they’re born from the same hell as the big end of town.
Shorten may want to be like Hawke but Hawke didn’t have to use divisiveness or the politics of envy which this disingenuous prick does. Have a look at him this morning.
Cries when someone takes him on about his mother comments but then uses his family at every opportunity.
Anyway, as that great statesman and intellect of SA politics; Tom Koutsantonis said a year ago, getting less than 50% of the primary vote is not a mandate. 2/3 of voters wont give their primary vote to either major party so its going to be another 3 long years whoever wins today. Nobody will control the Senate so it will continue to be mayhem. Hopefully SHY gets the flick so she can pay for her own crusades (which she wont)
Fortunately, Australians have become use to all this in the past 10 years and will just adapt to whatever they do and ignore them all.